Dear to those Christians who has criticized their fellow brother/sister who has Mental Illness,
Sometimes I can’t help but doubt and wonder of what you are proclaiming is said to be true. Because.. How could you be so extremely judgmental of those going through mental health problems? Mental health Illnesses? Whenever we open up to you about it, you’d only tell us we should just pray, that we are only lacking Faith and that we are only being demonized. Really huh? Why do you make us feel that we don’t belong and fit in to the Christian world rather Christianity because we have these problems? That we can’t be depressed, because when we do, we are lacking faith. That we can’t have any kind of mental Illnesses, because when we do, we are lacking faith and that we should just pray and that we are only being demonized.
Then whenever we have suicidal thoughts you’d accuse and condemn us so bad that when we act on it we go to hell. First of all, did we like thinking about it that we choose to choose it? This is too overwhelming for us.
Then you’d asked for us to go through deliverance – to cast out these demons aka mental illness and after doing so and still feel the same, you’d tell us the demons are just coming back again and that we should just cast it out by ourselves? Don’t you realize that we are sick?
Don’t you realize that many who’s got these problems will actually be much more harder to open up and be authentic of what they really are going through?
What if due to your perception about mental illness, that instead for the depressed gaining hope, the depressed will be full enough for him/her to really commit suicide? Then you’d go like, “I wish (s)he had open up” after (s)he had just died. Really? This is so unbelievable.
How could you say you love Christ yet be so judgmental, not understanding, does not show empathy, quick to speak but slow to hear to those that got these problems, got these illnesses? Often times, I can’t help but agree to what Mahatma Ghandi said, “I like your Christ. But I don’t like your Christians.” I realized, it’s true indeed. Because I felt it. We witnessed it.
Don’t you realize that we are sick? Just like diabetes, lung problems, heart problems, don’t you realize that the Brain is also just an organ and that it also gets ill?
And after you knew that we are seeing a Psychiatrist and that we are taking meds to help us recover and get better, again, you’d tell us that we don’t actually need it. We just need to pray. and pray. and pray. because what we are going through is not actually a disease but again, we are just being DEMONIZED.
How could you be this judgmental, so close minded and does not show empathy? How could you proclaim to love Christ yet does not show love to your fellow sister/brother going through these things? How could you?
Can’t help but be more depressed,
Your stumbled Sister.
Written with full of authenticity from the heart by: Just B.
Just. 