Antidepressants

Regarding antidepressant medication, from a member of Jim Elliff’s church: “At the new church, I met people who grieve over their sin. They are literally brought to tears as they confess sin to one another. This was foreign to me. I have never cried over my sin. I have felt bad for my sin, but I have never truly grieved over it. My sin has never been ‘a heavy burden that weighed too much for me.’ I have felt weighed down by responsibility, but never by guilt for sin. I began to think that perhaps that little pill that was meant to ‘take the edge off’ was preventing me from grieving over sin.” Sad thing is, some would say that that’s the sure sign that it’s working.

This entry was written by Charles Sebold, posted on 9/28/2007 at 6:46 am, filed under Asides. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Patrick Chan (620 comments.)
    Posted 9/28/2007 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

    Wow. That is really sad.

    Sorta related to this, I remember a couple of times talking to the one called “the teacher” in your testimonies and having him get upset with me because I felt guilty over this or that sin that I had done, or even just feeling like a sinner in general. (Although I don’t remember what I was doing telling all this to him in the first place.) Then again, maybe I just caught him having an off day or something these couple of times.

    On the other hand, at UBF I (and others like me) could never feel guilty enough — not for actual sins, but for not being as “spiritual” as the others who were “fishing for sheep” every week at local college or university campuses; or who had several more “sheep” under their care than others; or who happily lived together in “common life” (some of us did live together in common life, too, but, well, let’s just say it was not “happily”); or who shared their testimonies or delivered messages regularly at the UBF Bible conferences, etc. We were always second-rate on the unspoken and intangible but nevertheless felt and very real UBF hierarchy.

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