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  1. A great article on an issue that is largely ignored.
    I will add that identifying people in the group now with mental health issues is the easy part. We don’t know for sure how anyone will react in an emergency, especially one that may be a permanent change in our lives.
    Mental health issues within your group may not manifest themselves until the SHTF event.
    This is the most important issue in a survival situation, and one that threatens our survival as soon as the SHTF. We can take three days to find water if we’re not well prepared or a few weeks to find food, but unless we can instantly adapt mentally to an emergency situation, we’re more than likely dead.
    All the preps in the world can’t help you if your mind is gone.

    This one gets my vote for 1st prize.

    1. Please be aware that the mental health system, its professions, and even diagnoses, are part, even of the essence of the problem. Please see this gentlemen’s work, Dr. GC Dilsaver, at http://www.psychomoral.com, for a truly biblical approach to so called “mental health.”

      Here is a quote from the site:

      “The mental health paradigm is a false one. As the terms “mental” and “behavioral” health indicates, the mental or behavioral health field has reduced that which is considered essential human well-being down to a person’s mere mentation and behaviors. But it is not the thoughts or actions of a person that are the sole or even essential concern. Rather it is the heart or soul from which they emanate. But the mental health professions have either nothing to say of this soul; or, if they do, it is diametrically opposed to a true understanding of the Christian understanding. From Freud on, what the mental health field has sought to heal is the ego, that is, the pride and self-love of a person. But this pride and self-love is considered in traditional Christian spirituality an impeding disfigurement of the soul to be purged in the process of sanctification.”

      1. The correct answer is “all of the above” as usual.

        God created both the natural and supernatural orders. While your comments about the mental health profession are often true, it is besides the point. An atheist surgeon uses knowledge in the natural order to remove a tumor. If journaling helps, then it helps.

        A non-Christian psychiatrist friend once told me that almost none of his traditionally religious patients committed suicide.

        Sometimes knowledge concerning the natural order is most relevant (how to use a compass). Sometimes knowledge concerning the supernatural order is most relevant (How could God let all those people die?). Sometimes both together.

        Either-or solutions lead to endless arguments because both sides have half of the truth.

        Also, self-love has different meanings. Worldly self love is ego. Christian self love means putting the salvation of your soul above all other things. One is a sin, the other a virtue.

  2. I know they do much good, but be very cautious of support groups and the victim mentality and group-think. Sometimes a village might be best. Other times an engaged, supportive spouse or pastor would be better. And be cautious toward mental health ‘experts’, especially if they prescribe mind-controlling drugs. Often the proven side effects of these drugs include the very symptoms of the ‘disease’ they are suppose to help.

  3. IMHO you can either hack it or you cannot. Making the effort or simply going through the experience will either make you stronger or tear you down. Most of the rest, group sessions and interventions, are just window dressing. What will work is not having a life of ease and plenty but rather enduring a tough life from birth to adulthood. It is much easier to adjust to SHTF if your life has been a struggle all along. So when TEOTWAWKI happens the strong and those who have had to struggle will survive. The rest will be in group sessions.

  4. Can I recommend the book Where There Is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual
    by Vikram Patel, Charlotte Hanlon. It’s not as well known as where there is no Doctor.

        1. Just found out Where There Is No Child Psychiatrist: A Mental Healthcare Manual 1st Edition, by Valsamma Eapen, Philip Graham, Shoba Srinath, Kiriko Kubo is free today as well.

  5. “Kierkegaardian Anxiety as a Sense-Perceptive Faculty for Spiritual Experience” B. Lyons

    Only the wise will read it! Others will most likely reject such a concept.

  6. Thank you for this article & others on mental health. Our pastor has talked about people in the Bible who had symptoms of various mental health conditions & his own issues with depression. I’ve known several friends & extended family members who went thru PTSD, both of whom went to support groups that helped. Sites like this offer lots educational articles, which I appreciate.

  7. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours. Richard Bach

    The medical field (of which I am a part) is the root of the problem! A Diagnosis, a prescription, and an excuse for everything! All of which is a CASH COW to the industry!

    Have you ever wondered why all there conditions were rare or unheard of just a few decades ago? Your not going to get any insurance dollars by telling people the truth, that life is not perfect and you need to deal with its imperfections!

    Some people are a bottomless pit of need, that can never be filled and they will drain you dry!

    AVOID at any costs!

  8. It sure seems to me that the more conveniences and comforts in life we have, the more fragile we become as a society. Humans have suffered a whole lot more over the course of history than they do now, and have managed to continue to live, work, raise a family, and be a self sufficient, productive members of society without the need of journals, support groups, warm and fuzzy stuffed therapy animals, prozac or safe places. Take away a few conveniences and luxuries, and the average person doesn’t have time to sit around and dissect his/ her feelings and emotions or wallow in self pity.. Take away his programmable thermostat, and watch how fast he drops his self pity and picks up a splitting maul. If you are forced to put forth the effort to feed, cloth and house yourself, you tend to focus on giving thanks to the good lord for giving you the strength to do it. It tends to minimize the selfishness of looking for acceptance or dwelling on trivial little things that amplify anxiety,worry, stress that force you to focus on petty little inner feelings. It may sound a little abrasive, But then everybody these days are looking for something to be outraged over. It helps with reinforcing their short comings.

    Nothing erases Anxiety faster, and better than physical labor.. feeling depressed? hard physical labor takes your mind out of the ‘whoa is me’ thinking mode…. feeling a little scrappy?.. people getting a little aggressive?.. no better way to take the fight out of a person than hard physical labor.. The problem with people today is that they are too darn soft, and their brains have turned to mush, so every bad experience that crosses their path turns into a huge melodramatic mental episode that grips their lives, and leave them running to a therapist, the medicine bottle or a safe place.

  9. In the not to distant future if you wish to purchase a firearm you will have to be screened by the Community Health Authorities. This will be a simple end run around the 2nd amendment . Believe in God?, You’re crazy .Global warming false ? You must be loco . Abortion is murder ? You are deviant .
    Before you snicker please read the language written into Washington’s State’s new initiative 1639. This initiative sponsored by two Microsoft billionaires gives immense power to community health and community endangerment authorities . I would advise anyone giving data to any mental health facility to take precautions that it will not be used against you.

  10. You should NEVER tell any health care provider any more than they absolutely need to know or anything that you would not want the whole world to know! If you think your records are confidential – then you are mistaken! Read the fine print and your records can be shared with any number of associates and advocates!

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