MY ISSUES WITH PSYCHOTHERAPY & PSYCHOLOGY VERSUS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

                                                If you use modern day psychotherapy and psychological terms the word identifier I would use for them would be “behavioral narcissism”  In my loose vernacular what I would call it a “self-licking ice cream cone.”  How YOU feel is the initial message delivered in psychotherapy.  In all of my decades of study I find that at least two-thirds of psychotherapists and psychologists are basically incompetent.  Even worse now are the people who self-diagnose in some random psych test on social media and somehow otherwise capable people buy off on it giving them accolades on being a “survivor.”  Its idiocy at its finest.

                                                New National Health Service data shows that people most likely to be forced into psych wards, given psychiatric labels and medications, given Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), physically and chemically restrained are all women and teenage girls.  This isn’t misogyny as the feminists would scream at us, it is documented truth or unhealthy, toxic, lifestyles absent of God and the attrition of Alpha males in society.

                                                What I have found is that therapists serve only to reinforce people’s feelings of being a victim.  This victimology is a psychopathological form of self-centeredness or clinical narcissism.  Current issues in a person’s life are often brought back to childhood, perceived mistreatment, bullying, or parental discipline.  Did my parents hurt me?  Did they spank me?  Did they correct me?  YES!  But, in no way can I ever intelligently or psychologically blame them for my own personal poor decisions.  Psycho-babble does not allow, and even often times forbids, people to psychologically mature.  Again, self-licking ice cream cone for return customers and clients.  This should be a crime but will not be enforced because the smooth-brains want to feel vindicated in their victimhood.  None of them teach critical thinking, logic, or Christian faith as a tool for healing.  Rather they impose eastern religious techniques while drugging the recidivist client for more.

                                                There are three factors here: 1, psychology is an unproven so-called science; 2, the clergy who soft sells faith and Christian perseverance just for numbers, money, control, ego, and power; and, 3, guess what?  “Few there be that find it.”  I think I have sufficiently addressed #1 and it goes without saying if there is a “God hole” in people’s struggle with life.  Throughout the Scripture there is plenty in regard to mental well-being and how to survive the storms. 

                                                #2, the new clergy and seminaries placate this psychological dilemma with soft-baked sermons, money-sucking, unnecessary programs, large paid staffs, and political correctness from the pulpit.  There are pastors that claim depression in their own lives.  Why?  To get people to feel sorry for them.  Financing Jesus has become a costly venture when I can reach countless for free on this medium or on Facebook live on a Sunday.  Yet, very few want to give the tough love of the Scripture to get people where they need to be spiritually.  I listened to a couple of so-called pastors speak about the church needing to be more accommodating and not make people feel guilty.  Guilty about what?  The breathed out Word of God?  I just present the words and the Holy Spirit is what makes people feel guilty NOT me.  These victims of life just want their ears tickled and I REFUSE to do it.  I fear God so much more. 

The words sin, divine judgment, hell, repentance, self-denial, and church discipline have fallen out of the sermons.  A book written by Dr Karl Menninger titled “Whatever Became of Sin?,” who spent his life treating people in distress.  He wrote that the word “sin” had fallen out of favor with doctors, lawyers, media, and even the clergy.  Without this word people lose a sense of responsibility.  Sadly, all psycho-therapies have become their own cult completely discounting the power of God.

                                                #3, the reality is harsh—not everyone will go to Heaven.  Jesus was pretty clear about this, yet clergy tells everyone that they will.  They will ignore every Scripture that designs the path because its just in the “too hard category” to pick up our cross daily.  The clergy is afraid to flip over tables like Jesus did because they don’t want to lose money, butts in the seat, hurt feelings, or want to be liked.  I really don’t care if I’m down to one person on a given Sunday, if that one person wants to learn the Scripture, take up their cross, witness to others, and pray next to me.  I’m good.  Like Jesus, I elect to do more for less.  So, are we really helping anyone from the pulpit in developing the perseverance of the faith or psychologically debilitating them?

                                                Lastly, and this is hard for me, I had a Marine who committed suicide.  He and I would talk and he would vent to me how his wife exhausted him emotionally to a point of failure and then would flip the switch to make him the bad guy because he just couldn’t take her incessant emotional abuse.  Men rarely speak out about mental or physical spouse abuse due to sounding frail—but it happens so much more than you know and the legal system ignores it.  Although I don’t condone divorce, I told him to leave for his own mental well-being because he was teetering on the edge.  He loved his daughters so much that he just couldn’t do it and wanted to stay.  He had a belief in God but found emotional and mental repose and peace outside of the marriage—that just made matters worse as the hell she rained down on him eventually made him give up on everything.  Add to this that he was coming off of SSRIs (mood enhancers) and was mixing it with other substances to stop the main in an attempt to push the serotonin in his brain.  Downward spiral. 

She kept the children from him, publicly bad-mouthed him as she was the victim, and now receives all of the accolades and benefits as a “PTSD victim survivor.”  This is beyond perverse as all he wanted was some peace and to stop the noise.  I get it, but sadly I failed in drawing him nearer to God, the actual author of peace.  I have to carry that burden and ask God often if there was more I could do.  This is a classic example of male loneliness being perpetuated by a feminist society that isolates and prioritizes a man solely by what he does but never how a man feels.  This is supported by psychotherapy all of the time.  The biological core of every real man’s self-evaluation leaving men not inclined to ever investigate their feelings or rights for that matter.  If a man’s input is never validated and only his output in earning, supporting, and protecting his family, so why put in the time to finding out what is the matter when in fact it doesn’t matter to society.  Two nights ago I just had another heart-breaking suicide that I am still trying to sort out, but I promise, I WILL.

                                                I deal with all of this daily in my ministry and indeed it is exhausting, but that’s why it’s called a “CALLING.”  All I can do is my best to lead them, teach them, and draw them closer to God.  We exist in a therapy culture of false behavioral science that creates more and more medicated victims making people weaker.  We have never had more therapy and less God in our history.  God enables us to handle the most difficult relationships and situations.  Instead of self-diagnosis through an app or on TikTok, try the Bible and prayer.  I deal with a majority of women who are angry victims and conversely a majority of men who are lonely and broken-hearted because they miss their children.  This is on my target list for analysis and I promise to follow up with data and statistics.