Does it ever annoy you how in Christian culture they say to just “pray away” mental health issues?

Madeleine

It hurts my heart when Christian culture has such a strong stigma around mental illness. They automatically say it’s a “spiritual” issue and that if you just pray you’ll get better. Prayer is indeed powerful but would you tell someone with Cancer that that’s a sign of a spiritual issue? No. I just wish more Christians would recognize mental illness just as important as physical health and that there’s no shame in seeing a therapist or taking meds. With me my anxiety and bipolar disorder are genetic. I literally just have a inhereted imbalance in my brain. God has helped me for sure with it through prayer and trusting God like you would with any other health issue but it just hurts me so much when I hear Christians say if you just trust Jesus all your depression and anxiety will go away. You feel me??

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