Posts Tagged ‘psychiatry’
By jasonmaddox On August 26th, 2013
While the church doesn’t have the best history of handling mental health issues as an institution, we too often transfer this notion into the idea that the majority of Christians outright reject mental illness or counseling. The reality is, while extremists may insist mental illness is the result of demonic possession or sin, the average…
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By jasonmaddox On June 18th, 2013
In the mental health trade, we spend a lot of time talking about what mental health is not. Someone is not mentally healthy when they are depressed. One is not mentally healthy when they are anxious for a prolonged time. The best definition we have for what mental health actually means is that one is…
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By jasonmaddox On March 20th, 2013
Psychiatry and religion are often thought of as existing at polar opposite ends of the spectrum, thanks in some part to some past psychiatrists being dismissive or downright antagonistic to organized religion. Meanwhile, the church has not always been accepting of mental illness as a legitimate medical and emotional condition. In some ways, it may…
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By jasonmaddox On March 8th, 2013
New research suggests that five of the major psychiatric disorders all share common genetic risk factors. Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston looked at genetic links to autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia, and they found that four genetic variants are associated with all five, specifically mutations in two genes that help…
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