Brandy Lee

I'm a work-at-home mama who enjoys family, culture, and ministry Montana style.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Is mental health biblical?
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Well, here are the two extremes that you want to avoid. The culture, because it doesn't believe in the heart in the way the Scripture defines it. The heart is the center of your emotions, your mind, your will. The heart is the causal core, it's the directional system of a human being. Since the world doesn't believe that, the world tends to biologize everything. Everything is biological or physical. That's an unbiblical view of a human being.

The other extreme is in the church, and it's a tendency for us to spiritualize everything; every dysfunction is somehow a sin issue. And neither one of those two extremes are biblical. The biblical view is I'm a duality. I'm a spiritual and a physical being. The language that is more current is, “I'm an embodied soul.” So, there is dysfunction of soul and dysfunction of body.

For example, I was looking yesterday at an antibiotic, and one of the side effects of this antibiotic, this is very interesting to me, is anxiety. It's not an anxiety that's a failure of hope in God. It's an anxiety that is physiological-induced by a medication that causes you to be unable to deal with the things emotionally that you could normally deal with.

Now, that is a mental health issue. Does it become a heart issue? Sure, it does because everything is a heart issue because the heart is the control center. In the midst of that experience, I could get angry at God; I could doubt His goodness. All kinds of things can happen, but it's not first a spiritual issue.

I had a counseling experience with a guy who had a huge personality change, became a very angry man, and we discovered it was a result of an accident that affected the limbic area of his brain that was swollen. They call that the ‘rage center’ of the brain. He got medication and was fine. By then, his church had already disciplined him for a sin against his wife and family. I heard what was going on; I immediately sent him to a major hospital for a multidiscipline examination, and they found out what was wrong with him.

So, we can't deny the body, and we can't deny the soul. We have to have a category for things, whether you call them mental health or whatever, we have to have a category for body dysfunction that creates behavioral thought-emotion difficulty. And that needs to be part of a Christian worldview; it needs to be part of a system of Christian biblical counseling.

There are body issues. There are mental dysfunctions. We know that there are people who don't process well. Dyslexia is a mental processing issue. ADHD is a distractibility mental processing issue. So, we've got to have a category that remembers that God not only created souls; we're not disembodied souls, but we have bodies. And the fall didn't just affect the heart and the soul. The fall affected the body as well.
#askpaultripp episode 2

[Brandy Lee @Brandyrlee]

@TheAlanNoble Thank you so much for taking the time to write this response. It was a relief to read.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

One simple “I love you” may seem small, but it is one of the greatest acts of love. Parenthood demands sacrifice, sleepless nights, and selflessness, yet it brings a kind of joy and fulfillment the world can’t replicate. Embrace life. You won’t regret it.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Marlene cooked with this one.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Do not forget that a difficult childhood also creates brilliance, creativity, and resourcefulness that other people have no access to.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Artemis II pilot Victor Glover just gave this BEAUTIFUL Easter message

"So far from Earth, looking at the BEAUTY of creation."

“When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us...this amazing place." ❤️🙏🏻

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

I need more clarity as to why the transgender illegal immigrant on the left was recently sentenced to 6 months in prison for raping a 14-year-old boy in a public bathroom while the grandma on the right was sentenced to 2 years in prison for praying outside of an abortion clinic.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

If you doubt that God understands trauma, you need only look to the Cross.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Rachael Denhollander @R_Denhollander]

Nearly 9 yrs ago, @JJ_Denhollander posted after the first court date for Larry "Little girls don't stay little forever". Larry forgot this. So did Epstein. So did Trump.

I stand with these powerful women.

Your move Congress. Your move, voters. How much is a little girl worth?

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

The more we practice deceit, the more incapable we are of speaking or even recognizing truth. Deceit functions like a narcotic, and it is ingested in order to silence guilt or empathy for others so that a deadened soul can continue its destruction.

[Brandy Lee @Brandyrlee]

This is remarkable and heartbreaking.

[Samuel Sey @SlowToWrite]

An elderly Gene Hackman couldn’t hide the pain of his fatherlessness.

Imagine what the kind of pain does to teenage boys and girls.

Fatherlessness is the major reason for most of our societal problems, and it receives the least of our attention.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

“I’m so thankful, not just for this National Championship, but I’m thankful for the lives Jesus Christ saved and the lives he transformed [this season]…”
- Ohio State RB TreVeyon Henderson (@TreVeyonH4) during their National Championship celebration

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Fascinating. They observed that Christianity’s impact on OSU players is that faith fosters selflessness and strengthens their relationships with one another. This aligns perfectly with what the Christian tradition has emphasized for 2,000 years.

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

“We want a king! A conqueror! A Christian Prince to restore our national glory!”

God: I give you a child, born in the mud and stench of a stable, lying in a manger.

It was the first of countless inversions that are the mystery of Christ.

Merry Christmas.

[Mark E. Joubert @mark_joubert]

Wow. This hit hard. Good and beautiful.

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

If your candidate lost do not despair, but look to Jesus who never fails you.

If your candidate won do not be deceived, but trust in Jesus who is the only certain help.

All kingdoms will fade.

Jesus reigns forever and ever.

Amen.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

America, raising the minimum wage will do nothing toward ending poverty compared to marriage. Marriage is the greatest protection against poverty for women & children ever created. Strengthening marriage culture must be the top priority for anyone who cares about social justice.

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Neither major candidate for president is fit for the office, and no amount of emphasizing the unfitness of one will convince me of the fitness of the other. And there are lots like me. You can get mad at us, blame us for your guy’s loss, whatever. But the emperors are naked. 🤷🏻‍♂️