Lying preacher John MacArthur: "There's no such thing" as PTSD, OCD, and ADHD (Livestream) 

An abusive husband's best friend John MacArthur.

Sounds like MacArthur has Preacher Talking Shit Disease.

No, PTDS is NOT grief. PTSD is when I got in my car in the carport, and a carjacker surprised me and put a gun to my head. After he robbed me, he pulled the trigger, but the gun didn't go off right away. It took YEARS of therapy to get past that.

The lack of empathy, sensitivity, and compassion amongst some Christians pisses me off so much.

This is the sort of crap _Scientologists_ spout about psychology.

Needs to stay in his lane. I'm sick of these clowns practicing mental healthcare WITHOUT A LICENSE. Didn't do the clinical preparation, clinical internship, hasn't past a licensing exam, not subject to professional requirements for continuing ed or legal oversight.

So someone who talks to an invisible man is lecturing everyone on mental health.

My aunt used to be a psychiatric nurse. When I told her I was still struggling with childhood sexual trauma, she said "you need to let that go." THANKS AUNT JENNIE, I'M CURED. Same energy.

PTSD is grief?????? Sure, man. I'm grieving...over christian kids trying to stone me as a witch when I was in middle school, because I was a weird fucking kid with undiagnosed autism??

"grief is part of life as lying is part of preaching"

I hate when people imply that PTSD is only something soldiers get. Soldiers are a fraction of the people in the world with PTSD. I for example have CPTSD, & PTSD. I'm pretty sure I wasn't a soldier at age 2, and I haven't been, nor would I even ever be allowed to be. I end up in a ball on the floor from fireworks, someone yelling at me does roughly the same, ect.

Im sick and tired of this of people trying to gaslight me and anyone struggling with these things. The lack of empathy is already bad enough. People like this make it so much harder to get help.

I grew up with a brother that had cerebral palsy, blindness and intellectual disabilities. His disabilities were attended to and he was brought to doctors and helped. Me? I developed depression and anxiety because of my learning struggles in math and reading, as well as being bullied at school and home. I was actually screamed at by my grandmother for being depressed and anxious. My depression and anxiety were thought to be things that I chose. They were thought to be my fault. No one ever said that my brother’s blindness, his lack of walking, and his low iq were sins. My depression and anxiety, that were brought on by my academic difficulties and abuse at home and school, were thought by my family to be sins. I was told I was sinning by being depressed or anxious. I was told that other forms of mental illness were sins. I was told that people with mental illness were choosing to sin and be away from god. I was told that sinners were going to hell. Now who told me all of this? Certainly not my agnostic parents who didn’t go to church and who didn’t make my brother go because “of his handicaps”. It was my grandmother and to a lesser extent my grandfather, who said these things to me. They watched me before and after school while my parents worked. Oh, and even though my parents and brother didn’t go to church, I was forced to go. It was supposedly to make my grandmother happy. I had a former therapist tell me that it was probably a good thing that I was forced to go to church because I learned how to be a good person there. Ahh, even my own mother actually told me people can learn not to murder, not to lie, or not to steal without ever setting foot in a church. Not only was I forced to go to church to make grandma happy, but my dad used to make fun of me for going. “How’s the Pope?”, he would ask me with a smirk. Anyway, by the time I was an adult, my disabled brother was the saint of the family who would automatically ascend into heaven when he died. I was the sinner that couldn’t get her life together because I “didn’t pray hard enough”, when I prayed as hard as I possibly could. I went to church as a child and young adult. I was forced to as a child, and as a young adult I went because I made the stupid mistake of moving in with my grandparents. I really had nowhere else to go. In retrospect, I should have chosen the streets. I prayed. I even tried reading the Bible from cover to cover . I finally read it from cover to cover and realized that the xtian god is even worse than I thought. Actually reading the Bible for myself made me realize just how genocidal god is. I tried very hard to be a good Catholic xtian. I got abused as a result. I tried explaining the scientific reasoning for mental illness. I showed articles that had pictures of MRIs and or pt scans to my relatives. I could not get my closest relatives to understand that psychiatric disorders occur in the brain, that they are due to chemical imbalances or structural defects. They would not believe me. They believed in my brother’s disabilities and had empathy for him, but not for me. I’m still traumatized by all this. Thank goodness for my therapy. I would not be able to deal with society (USA). This is the exact environment I lived in for so long as a xtian catholic. It scares me that much of American society is like the family I grew up in. No wonder I sometimes am tempted to isolate.

“he’s making it up he’s a preacher it is what he does best” nothing has ever been more true

He's telling you this: "Bring ME the money you're going to spend on mental health care."

I haven't been to church since age 12. I'm 68 and so happy no one tells me how to live my life!

And, okay, I GET that this is just an anecdote, okay, but when I was 17, I was in hospital with brain hemorrhages, and I had this HUGE seizure that stopped my heart for a few minutes. I don't remember how a lot of this went down, but pre-seizure, every sound in the room seemed amplified, and so my mom put rolled up cloths beside my ears to drown things out a bit. After that, the air above my head started looking all blue and wavy, like I was looking at the ceiling through lake water. I remember asking mom and dad, "Why is everything blue?" and then there was a sound like a match being struck, I saw black for half a second, and then nothing. I woke up, not sure how long later, in the ICU with a breathing tube down my throat, VERY confused, and mom and dad had to explain to me that, after I blacked out, I made this gagging sound and stopped breathing. Dad ran out into the hall, got a nurse, they called a code blue (that's hospital-speak for "someone has stopped breathing"), and mom and dad cleared the hell out to the waiting room while they gave me the defib. I guess there were, like, twenty people in the room to help stabilize me? ANYWAY, everything gets cleared up and I'm out of hospital, eventually, and I'm home, and I'm sleeping in my own bed, NOT eating hospital food (no seriously, you have no idea how big a deal that is unless you've been on hospital food for a while), but I'M NOT HAPPY. Why am I not happy? It made no sense to me. I alternated between fits of sobbing, and feeling nothing at all. I hadn't LOST anything, as Mr. MacArthur here talks about with the distinction between grief and PTSD, and I was healthy again, and I was FREE, and my IV bruises were healing, so why was I not happy? That would be called PTSD. Because I almost died, I was still suffering internally, even though my external circumstances had vastly improved. It was a trauma response. So mom got me into therapy, and my real healer was time, if I'm being honest. Can't remember how long I was in therapy for, but eventually, I kinda, like...unfroze. Woke up again. I actually remember that part: I was upstairs in my bedroom, gorgeous sunny day, listening to Owl City (the first album is good, don't @ me), and I remember, I looked out the window and said to myself, "Oh. The sun is shining." But I could FEEL that the sun was shining. Emotionally feel it. That's when the deadness first started ebbing away. PLEASE remember that results will vary between cases. Get yourself help for this kind of thing: if you had a broken arm, you'd go to the doctor for it, right? Get a cast? Why should getting help for your mind be any different/ Your brain is a body part, too, just like your arm. And it can, like all the rest of you, get sick or get injured and need help in the healing process. Don't suffer on your own because of people like this motherf*cker.

"There's no such thing as PTSD. There's no such thing as OCD. There's no such thing as and ADHD." There's no such thing as GOD. If John MacArthur has a problem accepting the truth of that lone assertion then I ask why he has no problem accepting his own assertions made without evidence.

I have PTSD. My father abused me for years as a child. He's been dead for 40 years and I've been in therapy for 35 years. There are things that will cause me to relive the abuse, sometimes so vividly I lose all sense of self and place. I'm not sad. There is something profoundly wrong in my brain.

It's like tom cruise saying postpartum depression/psychosis medication won't help thing either!! You're correct... these people are so incredibly dangerous... and the ignorance is just amazing!!

MacArthur was of age for the draft during Vietnam. He did not serve and actively evaded the draft.

Religious abuse has caused a lot of PTSD and CPTSD.

I am fully convinced that Mr MacArthur would've been one of the first of the Southerners to start trying to downplay the Confederacy the moment Grant and Lee finished the Appomattox surrender if he lived in the 1860s.

If only stupidity could be treated with medication 🤦

I recall seeing a clip from one of those first responder shows where a vet with PTSD had a relapse/episode/trigger when a car back fired. Dude was crouched beside a car holding an imaginary weapon, paying 0 attention to the fleet of cop cars, fire trucks, ambulances. A former marine who was a cop was trying to talk to him in soldier speak (the LZ is clear, all hostiles gone, etc). Took em like 30 minutes to get him calm enough to get in an ambulance. But sure John, that's JUST grief.

I think I know EXACTLY what book MacArthur read to learn about mental health... it's called Dianetics.

Put MacArthur in a foxhole for ten minutes and he'd learn about PTSD real fast. MacArthur is the same bozo who said enslavers in the Bible treated their slaves so well, which is a lie, and ignored how Sarai/Sarah abused Hagar.

I have struggled with PTSD most of my life. It is extremely difficult to learn how to deal with it. This asshole doesn't have the foggiest notion about it. Imagine him coming round to my place.

Tell that to veterans that PTSD isn't real

I demand that anyone who thinks that the Earth is disposable LEAVE AND DON'T COME BACK.

Preacher MacArthur forgot to mention his own mental illness issues which are now illuminated because of these comments.

I’m on the spectrum. Have ADHD, and have a panic disorder. These are real, proven, and genetic, and am on meds. I loathe people like that, especially preacher, and I’m Methodist.

He knows so little about Big pharma and mental illness. He doesn't even know that there is no pill for PTSD. There are pills to help with sleep and anxiety, but that's all you're getting. The flashbacks and intrusive memories still come no matter what. Only therapy can treat PTSD.

Ptsd isn't real, huh then explain why i still can't get past everything i saw and experienced during covid working at a nursing home. I stopped counting the dead at 15 but I'm well aware it's far more. One of my coworkers died because of it. He was a big Dallas cowboy fan, four years later i still cry when i see a cowgirl star. most of 2020 and a good portion of 2021 are completely blanked out because of the trauma and memories of it. Not real right?

I used to think well of MacArthur. But now arrgh I know a man who has PTSD and it's nor survivor guilt. As for grief it can be eased by medication I'd ignore anything he said or wrote any time

IF he had ANY of that, he'd know better! Let him deal with the flashbacks, ducking when an exceptionally loud noise happens in real time!

ptsd doesn't exclusively belong to soldiers/veterans. can happen as a result of many things (like parental abuse, marital abuse, etc)

Grief doesn't make you jump like a bomb went off when a coffee mug breaks. Why do men with no expertise on a subject continue to pass themselves off as experts.

It hurts my head when people are as wrong as this preacher is. Wrong in several ways too. It just breaks me.

When the praying doesn't cure their illness, they're told their faith is insufficient.

I went to a cult Christian school called Grace valley in CA so I REALLY thought you were gonna talk about that for a sec.

It’s better for the mental health of kids to teach them how to sin than to scare them away from all the good things in life. Remember kids when they say “that’s a sin” take it as “this is a lot of fun and we hate fun and think you should too”

For the life of me I can't remember seeing him in Fallujah.

My childhood was not normal. I won't go into details here but suffice it to say I was physically and psychologically terrorized. I am now a retired 66-year old male who after years of counseling still has 3.5 years missing from memory ... ages 10 to 13 1/2. I'm diagnosed with severe C-PTSD. I can easily see myself in every aspect of the disorder. I am haunted! Who I am today was created by and at the hands of a Lutheran and a First United, my parents. They are both dead today which is very comforting for me.

I have ADHD and CPTSD. Not a criminal. Not a drug addict. Not homeless. Just a functioning adult.

A miracle! I'm cured!

Maybe he is thinning out the congregation. Telling folks, don't bring your ptsd, ocd, or adhd to church.

MacArthur sounds like he has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. We can only hope……….

There is literally proof of all thos diseases when there is no proof of god or heaven

Thank you to all the commenters, supporting those of us with these neurological differences. We are not all medicated for them, either.

A number of years ago I was in therapy and was diagnosed with OCD. The therapist never said a word about taking medication. Still unmedicated. Still not homeless. Oh… and I have a full time job as well.

ADHD was around before it could be treated with medication. It just wasn't diagnosed. My grandfather in his 60s has almost the exact same ADHD symptoms I do, but because people didn't understand it when he was younger it was seen as him just being "odd". It wasn’t until after I was diagnosed that the rest of the family where able to work out why he did certain things. They knew making random noises while walking around in public, getting distracted mid conversation and wandering off, forgetting basic things like getting food, and a long list of other things he does aren't normal but there was never much explanation as to why. Having a name, and resources to better understand the condition has been really helpful for the entire family. I know other older relatives and even the friends of other older relatives who are in similar situations. I can think of at least two older people I know who are lovely but almost certainly in some way neurodivergent and growing up at least one of them was pretty severely bullied because of it. The same applies for things like LGBT people. I've heard people say asexuality is a "new" identity people made up to feel oppressed, but then one of my granny's best friends is a woman in her 70's who's never married or had a relationship and is pretty open about the fact that she's never felt attraction to anyone and hasn't the slightest romantic interest in anyone. I have friends who have other older relatives who would probably be considered bisexual today but just didn't have the words for it then. There have always been different kinds of people it was just hidden or misunderstood until recently.

I apologise in advance that POS needs to be gone. My father served in WWII and was a POW. Do not tell me that there is no such thing as PTSD. Also that is not only attributed to veterans. It happens in abusive situation. It is normal for those misinformed things do not know how to deal with science and facts.

The new church "lying for Jesus" Well at least they would be honest 🤣😂

When did John MacArthur go to medical school? 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

He didn't elaborate on OCD, but I get the feeling I know what he'd say. "Just hand-washing" or something like that. As someone with OCD, this made me so irritated, I couldn't talk properly, because my lower jaw was shaking. OCD IS more than anxiety or hand-washing. It's hand-washing to the point of burnout. It's experiencing and struggling with intrusive thoughts possibly to the point of wanting to take your life. Denialist and Reductionist tripe!

I do partially agree with him. Yes, big pharma does profit BIG TIME on people's misery, and I do think that sometimes people are overly medicated. However, to say that there's no such things as PTSD, ADHD, etc. That's ridiculous! Also, PTSD is much more than grief - and is on a variety of levels. Come on now.

The guy sitting beside him is Costi Hinn, Benny Hinn’s nephew. He doesn’t subscribe to the same theology and teaching as his uncle. I’m not saying he is any better, but he completely rejects everything his uncle does and says and refers to it as “another gospel”. When I first began my deconstruction, I read Costi’s book “God, Greed and the Prosperity Gospel”. I went from a charismatic Christian -> reformed Christian (which is what Costi is) and now atheist.

JFC. My mom tried this same shit with me. When I was younger (all through my school years) I struggled with undiagnosed ADHD and was labeled as “scatterbrained” because girl. Yay. So one day mom was mad at me about being scatterbrained and I replied “I can’t help it! God made my brain this way!” And my mom SCOLDED ME MORE. “How dare you blame god for your sins?” Yeah so that was fun. I’m on meds now at the age of 48. And I’m doing amazing, finally.

I am a retired LAPD cop. I have PTSD. Grief is certainly a component of my condition but it is hardly the only significant part of it. Like a lot of cops I have known, I have been on medications for PTSD, stress, and depression. I did not find those medications effective in managing my condition. I don’t have a criminal record. I am not a transient on the streets in Los Angeles. I have dealt with a lot of transients in Los Angeles over the years. I don’t think we do nearly enough to help those folks. I don’t think cops are well equipped to help transients. I think that Christian leaders should spend time, money, and effort trying to help transients as the Bible claims that Jesus did but I don’t recall ever seeing or even hearing of John MacArthur helping transients in Los Angeles. I have looked up John MacArthur’s net wealth and the wealth of his family business on a few occasions. The figures involved suggest to me that John MacArthur is not terribly concerned about living his life according to the values of Jesus.

We have to remember that this old relic is the kind of guy who would pray for his sick child instead of getting medical help just because the Bible told him to. John MacArthur hasn't reached the Middle Ages jet. He's still stuck in the Bronze Ages.

Faith is such a poison

He is really going off the rails. And he was never on the rails to begin with, yet he still gets further off.

I have ADHD and I was aware of it long before I was diagnosed.

Ah yes my PTSD from years of abuse and for what a man did to me in 2021 and what a woman did when I was 12. Grief makes me freak out when touched and jump at loud noises. Of course. /sarcasm I have grief from losing people to death. There is a huge difference between grief and PTSD

Has anybody ever seen an abused or traumatized horse? An abused or traumatized dog? Horses and dogs don't have psychologists. They don't have a cerebral cortex and prefrontal lobe. They do have a brain stem. Horses and Dogs can show signs of PTSD when traumatized through abuse or other experiences. They can get the uncontrollable shakes and get skittish and their behavior changes and they act like the fightful experience never stopped. That is PTSD. Perhaps if MacArthur were sufficiently traumatized instead of traumatizing others, he might understand this notion about PTSD. "It doesn't mean anything to me unless it happens to me" is so very Christian. That is what happens when you act like Jesus was the only one who ever suffered.

Did a quick check of his Wikipedia Bio. Guy never saw military service. (He grew up in Canada, so he never faced a draft board in the Vietnam era.)

"A non-believer who misrepresented everything about Christ snd the gospel." Thanks for that! I'd been Watching Mike Johnson "live and lying" from NYC and I was having trouble summing him up.

So much for supporting the troops.

Everything you said in this video is good aside from my previous comment. I commend you for that. To get 34 things right and miss on one is remarkable. Well done, Hement.

Sadly, MacArthur's thoughts are common in Christianity and I would assume most religions in general (but I am not familiar with specifics on other religions related to mental health but the commonality of psychological control in religion lends heavily towards them NOT wanting you to get well in any other way, when they can try to convince you that their "god" was the one that miraculously cured them of their demons.) My pastor before I left the church (basically kicked out) said almost the exact same thing, but he said PTSD is unconfessed sin and demon possession. I did 2 back-to-back combat tours in Fallujah, Iraq and when I got back home I had nightmares, flashbacks, and a host of symptoms that are the hallmarks of PTSD. A veteran service organization helped get me a service dog that was great because when i get that 1000 yard stare and start grinding my teeth the dog would lick my face and snap me out of it and petting her calmed me down and gave me something here and now to focus on instead of the past. My pastor said I was relying on an animal instead of God in my troubles and said i should be praying in those moments not leaning on a dog for help; he even said dog is God spelled backwards that should tell you that you are coming at this from the wrong direction. He told me to get rid of the dog, donate the money i spend on food and vet bills to the church to "let god work in my life", he said my nightmares were demonic possession or influence and that PTSD doesn't exist. It also came out in marriage counseling with this pastor that my wife was frustrated because we weren't having sex anymore because my injuries in Iraq and the surgeries when I got back made it pointless and very painful. He first started making fun of me like I couldn't please my wife, and we had never talked about my injuries in specifics before but I explained that my injuries and the surgeries when I got back from combat made me sterile and they had to remove severely damaged "vital anatomy" in the love making process. He said that's troubling and that he would consult other leaders in the church about it. A week later he got back to me and said I had hid this information from them (I just never talked about my combat injuries and the results because they were traumatic); he quoted Deuteronomy 23:1 "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord". He said I couldn't be a deacon anymore, and that I was no longer allowed to teach in the church (at the time I was teaching a class on the Middle East since i spent a lot of time there and had pictures of modern day structures from my service there. And I covered what the modern location were called in the bible). Since my junk was destroyed they basically relegated me to the same way they treat women in the church; "we will tolerate you but you must be silent and don't you dare teach others." I tried to stay and be a "good little Christian" but within 2 years (after 40 years of being a Christian) I left the church forever and am now an atheist. The atheist community doesn't have rules to sideline you if you get blown up in combat. Funny thing is I still have Christians claim I left the church to pursue my fleshly desires because i just want to sin...I'm like bitch I'm sterile and Asexual there isn't shit happening in that department so why would I ditch a community I was in for over 40 years to seek pleasure when that causes only pain? But that is what some fundamental churches are teaching and how they are treating people with PTSD.

My father gave me PTSD for life when he kidnapped me out of my crib when I was two and a half. I wonder what my life would be like without that experience. My father reminded me of the demon Killer Bob. But he was just a deplorable, despicable, evil man. Its so easy to blame demons. Grief is grief. Depression is depression. You may need antidepressants, or other therapies. ADHD is ADHD. You may need Ritalin. Autism is autism. They like to say its demons, but its just your brain that is wired in a different way. Its hardwired and no medication or prayer would ever change that. We just need to make it easier for autistic people to just be themselves. Its easy to say it doesnt exist. They always take the easy way out. The easy way for privilege old men with way to much power.

Thank you for helping to make Atheism ok. In a world of the Religious it is not always easy to feel that you are feared.

PTSD-like behaviors were first recorded in Assyria between 1300 to 600 BCE, in soldiers returning from war. Evidence for PTSD is literally older than the Bible as it exists today. You know what else is older than the Bible as it exists today? Evidence for OCD, which was identified by Abu Zayd Al-Balkhi in the 9th century, although Plutarch described it long before then. There's a Christian mystical text from the 14th century that discusses what we today call emotional flooding, a type of psychotherapy, in response to OCD. Given hyperactivity wasn't always a problem in society, it's no surprise it wasn't until the modern era that ADHD was discovered, but it was still in 1776 when Melchior Adam Weikard identified ADHD-like behaviors for possibly the first time in history. The takeaway? Man, Big Pharma is really powerful, given they have time travel technologies!

I should be used to it by now, but I'm continually shocked at the casual cruelty of these semi-embalmed, overpaid fundies. Can MacArthur hurry up and shuffle off his mortal coil so we can have a more just, compassionate world?

And there’s no such thing as a compassionate conservative or religious person.

"I looked for a man that told no lies. I couldn't find one."

Childhood trauma lasts long after one logically concludes that it's left far behind. Often self medicating for a lifetime, but hopefully breaking the cycle. It's not grief or sadness. It's not avoided by trigger warnings. Comes in the form of distrust and the need to look for escape routes. In the need to have a bag packed in case you need to run, because your wife calls you an asshole for tracking in mud. It's, not only distrust in authority, but the concept that authority is truly, and actively trying to kill you, and anything brushing upon resemblance of authority means that when you are middle aged, you can walk around a bit, and sort out the brain chaos for a while, and then be okay. And the nightmares do get less frequent, but you have to wake up and understand those aren't anything you can control. And then, you critically analyze the brain, why,? and try not to be an asshole. And then have lunch, and start over, after that

The whole point of preaching to big groups of people is for the purpose of manipulating them to make them believe exactly what you're pushing, no matter how insane it is.

Rather being a fool keeping quiet, than opening the mouth and removing all doubt.

Thank you for the video, you're helping a lot of people by speaking up about harmful people.

if my mother had been treated properly for her mental health issues way back when...it would make taking care of her easier today. I feel bad for her...she was raised in a religion that didn't believe in mental health issues.

lol - "no such thing as adhd" says a man who sounds like alzheimer's has set in.

I know this way off topic and I don't know if you'll see it. But are you Cubs or Sox and do you have an opinion on Caleb Williams?

One of the books MacArthur cites was The Myth Of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz It's from the 1960s and I read it in the late 70s Even by that time it was discredited by most professionals. I'm surprised it's still referenced by anybody but I suppose it gives ammunition to bigots. I had a friend who had PTSD and could not take any sudden noise, even relatively soft noises that started up without warning. His own doorbell and telephone would make him jump. Even the air conditioner unit from the house next door starting up startled him. I knew him for some time before being in his home and was surprised that noises that most people would think of as normal in their own home set him off like that. His sense of alarm was very real and very distressing.

This would be like saying to him ‘sin’ does not exist

Lol he is projecting. He knows there is no such thing as God. So he uses his greatest insecurity to try and attack others 😂😂

NEWS FLASH! John MacArthur lied. Also in the news, water is wet.

There is no medication for ptsd. PTSD is very real. At 74 I live it every moment.

My mother, born in 1920, had ADHD and oppositional behavior. Was she diagnosed as a child? Of course not, those things didn't exist back then. She failed first grade because she could not stop herself from acting out. She struggled all through school and she was unable to get through college. She could not keep a job although she was highly intelligent. Guess who else has ADHD and oppositional behavior? I do, and so does my now adult son, and we've both struggled to have normal lives. I hate it when people like MacArthur dismiss these disorders as inventions. They're real, they seem to be genetic, and they affect people's lives in big ways.

3:18 it's like a shitty xtain "between 2 ferns" called "predators on either side of a ficus"

Don’t listen to nonprofessionals trying to use opinion to deny medical diagnoses.

The guy next to MacArthur is Costi Hinn, he is Benny Hinn's nephew who denounces prosperity theology but now has joined forces with MacArthur... not good company to be in...

What is with all these pastors taking hard stances about medical issues they are unqualified to actually do an assement of? Then again most of them seem to not know their own holy book so I guess it's no suprrise that they also act like they know better than medics as well. Even if it is highly unethical.

Let me guess, he has never served his country. No such thing as PTSD? Funny considering it has had many names in every war ever fought. Shell Shock, Soldier's Heart, Combat Fatigue, War Neurosis. It is found in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Herodotus describes it during the Battle of Marathon. Hippocrates described it. The icelandic Gisli Sursson Saga described it. It was considered a disease in Europe and called "Nostalgia", and when it was accepted my Civil War America, it was believed to be a matter of "feeble willed" soldiers, and public ridicule was considered the "cure" for it. After the war a doctor studied veterans and found non-injury related physical issues, and the name Soldier's Heart, Irritable Heart, & Da Costa's Syndrome.

MacArthur sadly is looked up to by many Christian’s. His teaching is dangerous. But, I must say, John MacArthur was a part of my accepting my unbelief, so thank you John MacArthur.

Someone brought up the question of whether Mr Macart is in the process of being pursued legally for abuse that he has himself inflicted, cause I wouldn't put it past him, but given his record I also wouldn't be remotely surprised if this was entirely just another tick in the wall for him.

We don't need psychiatric help for PTSD. We only need to send our religious leaders our hard earned money and God will cure us all

There's a lot of commenters focusing on PTSD i know it isn't the only treatment and i'm not recommending anyone spicifically but there are hypnotherapists who are pretty skilled at helping with these disorders.

If OCD isn't real then what was Howard Hughes problem, I guess he was just eccentric. Also don't they just microdose meth for ADHD, I mean meth is kinda cheap.