Psychological Conditions and the Scriptures

One thing I’ve noticed about the scriptures is that they are lite on mental illness. No multiple personality disorder. No Bipolar disease. No PTSD. No Schizophrenia. No Bulimia. No serial killers. No Depression, etc., etc., etc. And yet we all interact with folks who have those maladies.

We have to be careful about attributing those things to Demon possession as found in the scriptures. Yes some of the cases of Demon possession in the scriptures sound like seizure activity. But we have to remember the text says it is Demon possession and the Demons recognized Jesus Christ and even talked with him.

What the scriptures are not lite on is love and wisdom. We should always love those with psychological disorders but be wise enough to know that some of these conditions are incurable and unmanageable and we shouldn’t feel guilty that we can’t do more. We just have to do the best we can and leave the rest up to God.