With a mental disorder, it’s important to determine precisely whether it is an illness of the physical brain, requiring medical doctors, or an illness of the eternal soul, requiring spiritual physicians. To insure mental health for a person, one must know the difference between physical ills of the brain and spiritual ills of the soul. And must then follow the course of treatment prescribed by specialists in the appropriate field. At times, treatment may draw upon both sources, medical and spiritual. The medical always depends upon the spiritual, upon God; and the spiritual may sometimes want to draw upon the medical for temporary palliative relief, as when we use an anesthetic while undergoing surgery.
God’s Path to Sanity
Dee Pennock