#231 Mental health: Am I failing God by taking medication? (replay)

Ask NT Wright Anything

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Does taking anti-depressant medication mean I’m failing to trust God? I was told to read the Bible to cure my eating disorder - how do we educate the church? How do I reconcile the Biblical command ‘do not be anxious’ with chronic anxiety? Tom answers listener questions about mental health. Originally Aired: 19 May 2022 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:59.3	and to write anything. anything podcast. on well-being. Last time we were talking about how we develop good spiritual
1:25.1	disciplines. We were talking about the nature of addiction and how we reach out in
1:29.6	love to those who do experience addiction, mental health issues.
1:33.0	Today, a number of questions,
1:34.6	and I think this is reflective of the way
1:37.3	that modern life has increasingly brought
1:40.5	to the surface, I suppose, the mental health issues that exist partly I think because of the way culture is changing Tom
1:47.4	partly maybe just that we're better at diagnosing what we previously went
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