Hi there,
So yes, I have struggled with a diagnosis of my schizophrenia, for years. One thing that made it particularly difficult, was that the treating team (the psychiatrist and his nurses) would say "you will have this condition for the rest of your life", as if the Day I reach Heaven, I would find no escape - from the schizophrenia that no longer pleased God. I say that no longer pleased God, because I believe some of my schizophrenia does please Him and it is for this reason, that I must struggle with it. The complication comes when a mere man (the psychiatrist) decides to take upon himself, to play "God".
Schizophrenia, like almost any mental health condition, is for a season, not every season. It can be quite aggressive when you are young; quite vexing when you are older - but in no sense completely overwhelming, certainly not if you allow the Holy Spirit to guide you through your experience of most of it. God is not interested in condemning to Hell a mental health condition that has some bad traits and some good traits - that's what our struggle on Earth is all about, when our mind works differently to others. Would others cope in future, if we did not accept our burden? In some cases "yes", in other cases "no" - but would they cope as much? Or with as much strength? The answer is "no" and mostly "no".
The point is to learn from God. The psychiatrist that deplores God, that he would rather give a life-long prognosis will suffer God's wrath. It is learning to trust God, in what He teaches, that we not enter into that wrath, but rather be delivered by the sincerity and worthiness of God's Spirit. In the flesh you will get weary, in the flesh you will slow down, but if your trust is in God and what He taught you, you will not be vulnerable "for the sake of it", in the overcoming of your condition - and the realisation of the Joy of God, through the "trial".
In the end you will master it! In the end, you will be able to look back and say "in the end, I knew when too much was too much, when what I suffered was not what God wanted me to endure". This will be cause for you to leap for joy! You will be preserved in the shadow of God's wings and never again asked to manifest illness, so as to prove an earthly man's point. You will go from Day to Day, never doubting that the end of your condition was coming - all ties to your spirit will fade away into the splendour of God revealing His Goodness, to you.
Say it to yourself "from this day on I declare, whatever my mental health condition may be, it will not rule me, though I wait long for the Lord to bring it to an end"; say it and be blessed, for your Lord, Jesus, wants this for you too.
God bless.
So yes, I have struggled with a diagnosis of my schizophrenia, for years. One thing that made it particularly difficult, was that the treating team (the psychiatrist and his nurses) would say "you will have this condition for the rest of your life", as if the Day I reach Heaven, I would find no escape - from the schizophrenia that no longer pleased God. I say that no longer pleased God, because I believe some of my schizophrenia does please Him and it is for this reason, that I must struggle with it. The complication comes when a mere man (the psychiatrist) decides to take upon himself, to play "God".
Schizophrenia, like almost any mental health condition, is for a season, not every season. It can be quite aggressive when you are young; quite vexing when you are older - but in no sense completely overwhelming, certainly not if you allow the Holy Spirit to guide you through your experience of most of it. God is not interested in condemning to Hell a mental health condition that has some bad traits and some good traits - that's what our struggle on Earth is all about, when our mind works differently to others. Would others cope in future, if we did not accept our burden? In some cases "yes", in other cases "no" - but would they cope as much? Or with as much strength? The answer is "no" and mostly "no".
The point is to learn from God. The psychiatrist that deplores God, that he would rather give a life-long prognosis will suffer God's wrath. It is learning to trust God, in what He teaches, that we not enter into that wrath, but rather be delivered by the sincerity and worthiness of God's Spirit. In the flesh you will get weary, in the flesh you will slow down, but if your trust is in God and what He taught you, you will not be vulnerable "for the sake of it", in the overcoming of your condition - and the realisation of the Joy of God, through the "trial".
In the end you will master it! In the end, you will be able to look back and say "in the end, I knew when too much was too much, when what I suffered was not what God wanted me to endure". This will be cause for you to leap for joy! You will be preserved in the shadow of God's wings and never again asked to manifest illness, so as to prove an earthly man's point. You will go from Day to Day, never doubting that the end of your condition was coming - all ties to your spirit will fade away into the splendour of God revealing His Goodness, to you.
Say it to yourself "from this day on I declare, whatever my mental health condition may be, it will not rule me, though I wait long for the Lord to bring it to an end"; say it and be blessed, for your Lord, Jesus, wants this for you too.
God bless.
