Dealing with Diagnosis on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

This is the month of May, and we are beginning what has become a tradition here at ACBC on the

Truth in Love podcast. We're going to talk about Mental Health Awareness Month, and we don't do

this to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month. We do this to

provide biblical wisdom in our therapeutic culture, in our therapeutic age, as it relates to all

the secular topics of mental health, mental illness, and that sort of thing. Now, I could not be

more excited about this month. We actually get five Mondays

to release issues related to mental health. And I'm looking forward to the next several weeks.

We have some really good guys lined up to talk about some very specific topics like OCD and

emotional focus therapy to give critiques on those things, to give biblical

wisdom as we think about issues related to that. But that will be in the coming weeks. And so I hope

you're engaged throughout the month of May. Hearing the particular podcast that we talk about,

I think it'll be very practical for you. It'll challenge you in so many ways

to engage the scriptures as we think about and hear and rub up against all of the diagnoses that we

hear from mental health that's so common and popular in our given culture. I want to start

today talking about this issue of mental disorder diagnosis. And when we think about diagnosis,

obviously we think about the DSM, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

That is the Bible of psychiatry. We've talked at length on this podcast about that particular

book. And I'm sure we will have many, many more discussions as it comes up in the future. The DSM-5 actually just created a revision. So obviously, we'll be talking about some of those things as it comes up here in the future. But today, I want us to talk, in some cases, a little bit more practical. David Paulison wrote an article years ago that was so helpful and it's still really, really

helpful. We can include that in the show notes to today's show, how to counsel a psychologized

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