YOU ARE MORE THAN A DIAGNOSIS: HOW TO BREAK FREE FROM MENTAL HEALTH LABELS – PART 1

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.9 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Transformed Podcast Episode 116 | March 27, 2025 Dr. Greg Gifford exposes the false promises of the secular therapeutic industry and reveals why it’s failing so many people. He explains how mental health diagnoses are often based on subjective assessments rather than objective medical science, leading to hopelessness instead of true healing. Learn why biblical truth offers a better path to understanding yourself and overcoming struggles. ___ Preorder the new book, Lies My Therapist Told Me, by Fortis Institute Fellow Dr. Greg Gifford now! https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/liesmytherapisttoldme ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?
0:03.8	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.5	God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.6	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.4	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's
0:30.1	University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform.
0:38.4	My name is Dr. Greg Gifford.
0:39.8	And today we are exposing the lies of the secular therapeutic.
0:44.6	And I know that's a very bold way to introduce the topic today.
0:48.2	But I'm doing a three-part series on lies my therapist told me, and I want to take individual lies and address
0:57.6	them. And these lies are from my forthcoming book called Lies My Therapist Told Me. It's on
1:04.3	pre-order now. You can go to Fortis Institute.org forward slash lies. The goal with this book is to just help the discerning Christian
1:16.5	to put into practice their understanding of the Bible. The discerning Christian, there are
1:23.0	Christians that are not discerning. And we can just be candid about that. They're not truth-led. They're not letting
1:28.8	the word of God inform their daily life. And the really, the biggest sufferer of that is the
1:35.1	Christian that's doing that. They're the one that will be hurt the most. Yet the discerning Christian
1:40.0	uses the scripture to help see this world. And you exercise discernment. You grow in it.
1:47.4	And as you grow in discernment, Hebrews 5, 14, 12 to 14, somewhere in that range, as you exercise discernment, you're able to see things the way God sees them.
1:59.1	Some of you are discerning, and you've just began to think the secular therapeutic enterprise is not helping us. It's not. It's actually
2:06.4	making things worse. The first lie that we're going to expose today is that the secular
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