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What's your diagnosis?

I know what will cure your anxiety because the doctor helped me", a friend said. "I am on anti-depressants"! Another person was just so adamant their child has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and agreed to put their child on medication; which is an easy way out of taking responsibility for their actions and how they react to their child. There are times medication is necessary but it should not be the answer to a disorder that is malfunctioning do to wrong thinking and improper reactions to situations. There is no other diagnosis for it. When we are in stinking thinking mode, our lives begin to stink per say!




Anxiety is another form of worry. When anyone(adult or child) worries they feel in their mind that they can prevent whatever they are worrying about not to happen. However, all it is doing is creating sickness in the body. According to Rosalind Ryan UK, our body responds to worrying the same way it would to physical danger. Our adrenaline increases, the heart rate increases, we break out into a cold sweat, and we get into a defense state of mind to run or fight. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-97853/What-worrying-does-health.html)

Constant worrying can lead to ulcers, heart attacks, and strokes and even increase the risk of cancer. However, we still do it because we do not understand there is a better way. As mentioned above, there are times we do need a pill to assist in healing or put our chemical in balance back in balance, but it is not the answer to every situation. 


When we don't know better, we don't do better. I had the privilege of teaching a faith class at a correctional center in my home town and the women there with all of their diverse reasons they were incarcerated had the same answer, "No one ever told me about Jesus"! 


If you do not know Jesus, now is the time to get to know Him and once you do, your life will never be the same. He is the way, the Truth, and the Life!

Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until the sky and earth pass away and perish, not one smallest letter nor one little hook [identifying certain Hebrew letters] will pass from the Law until all things [it foreshadows] are accomplished. Whoever then breaks or does away with or relaxes one of the least [important] of these commandments and teaches men so shall be called least [important] in the kingdom of heaven, but he who practices them and teaches others to do so shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness (your uprightness and your right standing with God) is more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:17-20 AMP

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