‘Treating the wrong problem’: Researcher has dire warning that rejecting God is fueling mental-health crisis
'As you dig into it to try to figure out things like anxiety, depression, fears, suicidal thoughts, OCD tendencies, addictions, what we find is that, often, what may be happening is that it's not that they have some kind of chemical imbalance or physical issue causing what appears to be a mental illness; it may be their belief structure, their worldview'
(FAITHWIRE) — Is part of America’s massive mental health malaise actually rooted in a spiritual crisis?
That’s what Dr. George Barna, co-founder and director of research at the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, is arguing, noting some people seeking medication and counseling are actually “treating the wrong problem.”
“We’re in a situation where the best estimates [are] that we have … about one out of every four adults [with] some kind of diagnosable mental illness,” Barna told CBN News. “There’s a wide range. But when we look at it more deeply, we find that those numbers are higher the younger a person is.”
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