© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
In order to ordain, successful treatment of persons suffering from mental disorders, we need to shift our paradigm, three degrees, and view only, possibilites. Three degrees port, full starboard rudder, would be a simplified film version, however, seeing people suffering with brain disorders, as other than refuse we do not understand, will mean valuing life. It seems odd, a group so staunchly pro-life as, "Christianity", is so ignorant of personal value where this, or any other, illness is concerned.
Part of this problem, is a paradigm, of every illness being a rebuke, from a God as punishment for disobedience. When, is there a time you heard of someone being healed of Diabetes? Alzheimer’s? Muscular dystrophy? Or Parkinson’s? The church is very happy to see these disorders as involving a person still of value, however, not so persons suffering from brain disorders, of which, there is no healing experience. These people, are either possessed by demons, or master villain, devil himself, and must become, a normal, again, or faith of people suffering with these disorders is ruled false.
One clear fact, remains to be accepted in this century, there is no more need of healing, than there is for any other disorder, for a person’s life to be of value. A person, suffering with a brain disorder, can be returned to a state of wellness and recovery, without needing to be healed of any disorder. Modern medication therapies, psychoanalytical treatments and psychosocial rehabilitation, are capable, of returning a person to a state, in which, there is valued contribution to our community. We must shift our paradigm, from the third degree, to allow ourselves, to see these people as worthy of successful treatment. Then we can call ourselves, a civilized nation, of loving, understanding, caring, kind and compassionate people. – Mark Robert Gates
Monday, January 23, 2006
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