TIL 260: The Diseasing of Anxiety and Depression

Truth in Love

Association of Certified Biblical Counselors

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Featuring: - Mental health concerns during the Pandemic - What is the problem with adopting a DSM diagnosis for depression and anxiety - Therapy as a Replacement of Theology - Medicalizing anxiety and depression - Critically considering the efficacy of current psychiatric drugs and frameworks - What is the goal of mental health? - What is healthy? What is normal? Notes: Mental Health Month Podcast Series: - The Bible of Psychiatry - https://biblicalcounseling.com/the-bible-of-psychiatry - Biological Psychiatry - https://biblicalcounseling.com/biological-psychiatry - The Problem with the Mental Illness Narrative - Bibliography of Critical Psychology https://acbcdigitalresources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/Truth+in+Love+Resources/TIL+Show+Note%3A+Featured+Resource/Critical+Psychology+Flyer_2019.pdf Send your Truth in Love Questions to info@biblicalcounseling.com

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0:00.0	Diseasing Anxiety and Depression on this edition of Truth and Love.
0:12.0	I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,
0:17.9	where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.
0:23.1	And this week, once again, I am joined by Dr. Sam Stevens, our director of Training Center
0:29.0	Certification, and we are here this week to talk about mental disorders, the ones that have been
0:36.0	classified, particularly we're going to boil this week down to talk about anxiety and depression specifically.
0:42.5	Certainly we could separate these out, but we wanted to try and tackle these because there's a similar narrative that runs throughout both of these types of disorders as they're defined by the DSM.
0:53.2	And I just want us to be aware of some of the
0:55.6	things that are that are undergirding the idea behind mental health as it relates to these
1:01.2	particular categories of anxiety and depression. And again, we're in the month of May. This is
1:07.8	Mental Health Awareness Month. And so we want to just raise these issues so that you can be more aware of the language that's used out there.
1:16.9	Now, Sam, there are several ways that we could address this, and I think it's important for us to consider the time that we're currently in now.
1:24.8	We've been dealing with the idea of a pandemic now for four or five
1:28.1	months, and here we are wrestling with the realities that we're seeing unfold before us.
1:35.3	One of the things that I keep reading is a constant increase in mental health that our public
1:42.2	health officials were once talking about. We need to flatten the
1:44.9	curve, make sure that the hospitals are okay. Some of that now has transitioned. That talk has
1:49.9	transitioned to think about the impact of the pandemic moving now toward a third or fourth stage,
1:56.5	which incorporates a fear of some sorts of the flood of quote-unquote mental health problems.
2:03.4	And now we have to worry about the psychiatric industry and the psychological industry
2:08.2	are going to be flooded with people who are now affected by the pandemic,
2:12.0	which has nothing to do with some sort of underlying true virus or disease really at all. And so it's interesting some of the
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