Mental Illness or Spiritual Attack? w/ Dr. Matt Breuninger 

All my bad decisions led me to be spiritually and mentally dismembered. I didn't have God by my side at those times. I'm slowly aligning myself with God again which has made me spiritually and mentally stronger. In all our terrible sufferings, therein lies our triumph. Like jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. It's important for us to imitate the sufferings of Christ. He was so depressed and he thought God had abandoned him. We've been predestined to carry such crosses, we must not despair. It's all a perspective. It's important to know God for this reason alone. 🙏 I'm getting there. It's a pretty hard road.

This dude’s voice is so calming I almost fell asleep at the wheel

The truth is that we know so little about how to resolve emotional problems, and we need an integrated approach in these times where we have so much mental illness everywhere.

Along with early morning prayer, *getting good sleep, good brain & nervous system - specific Nutrition,* waking & walking in outdoor sunlight, Rigorous Exercise, and purposeful work are all extremely important, as well as transitioning from warm to Cold Shower (or cold plunge); these are helpful for Neuro-Chemistry & personal resolve.

Please speak more on Scrupulosity, or Religious OCD, which is a particularly nasty affliction, because it has components of Spiritual Oppression, Scripture, and a Terrible, Repetitive Bio-feedback Loop of brain chemistry that blocks the adoption of known facts & reason, over the non-stop anguish-inducing, torturous thoughts. Well-meaning clergy often deliver the same passages that afflicted person already struggles with without understanding that there's different type of Cognitive Dissonance occurring; scripture has already been accepted, yet mis-used by the affliction. I know someone that has struggled for years, with a constant bombardment of worrying that he has blasphemed the Holy Spirit and lost his Salvation.

One problem with reducing spiritual issues to a psychological one is that people tend to try and find ways to avoid accountability with regards to sin. For instance, in recovery & sobriety programs, people will call something a "character defect" as opposed to recognizing it as sin, because they don't want to answer to Jesus. This problem is compounded by the fact that sobriety programs have become more ecumenical, opening the doors for every faith tradition, which eliminates the cross as a solution. After all, who needs Jesus when we can call upon a "god of our own understanding", or the universe, or any deity that we can conjure up in our mind and cater to our desires?

Jesus is the answer

I want to thank you both for sharing your talents. Blessings from Ireland!

Dr. Breuninger is the best!

@Pints With Aquinas Emotions and Morals: Their Place and Purpose in Harmonious Living Patrick O'Brien This is a great book and it's for Catholics.

1521 was the year when a certain group of People were given that wisdom for today’s modern questions on Spiritual and Psychological challenges. The Cebuano people has the story.

Very clear, logical explanation

Absolutely right

The problem is that demons should not have the ability to deceive. That itself is cause for internal conflict even if one never experienced a demon because it sets up a conundrum. Just knowing that is problematic. How do I know that from the first breath I took in this life that I wasn't being deceived..and that everything I know now isn't a lie? Then to make matters worse, we're told not to test God. Few want to acknowledge how much religion and spirituality are themselves the SOURCE of mental disturbance. Please don't reply saying to call on Jesus or just pray because that means you obviously didn't read.

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sacraments and prayers always help

These 20 minute episodes are depressing. I could be watching something with a 2 hour discussion

This dude looks like Andrew Tate, may God forgive me.