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What is Mental Illness
Volitional Cause
Environmental Cause
Biological Cause
Types of Struggles
100
Mental illness is what type of struggle?
Life struggle.
100
Life goals and ______ choices that are at odds with each other.
Temporal
100
A side effect of many diseases, medications, or major surgeries can be changes in one's ________.
Physical or mental health.
100
We are not ______ responsible for our biological challenges unless we created them through habituation.
Morally
100
What type of challenges do we face because of our immoral choices or mis-prioritized allegiances?
Sin struggles
200
Impairs an individual's mental-social-emotional ability to ____.
Function.
200
_______ choices which have a cumulative negative effect.
Destructive
200
Chemical imbalances and neural pathways in the _____ both cause and respond to emotions and choices.
Brain
200
Scripture places high value on taking care of our bodies because of how much they ______ our souls.
Influence
200
What type of challenges do we face because of living in a world marred by sin that is inhabited by other sinners?
Suffering struggles
300
A mental illness may be a true ____, a ______, or a __________ of life choices/circumstances.
Disease, syndrome, consequence.
300
Natural consequence of ________ or _______ choice.
sinful, foolish
300
A family ________ can reveal where an individual is predisposed to particular struggles.
History.
300
Our biologically-based struggles will _______ as we age and our bodies weaken.
Increase
300
What type of challenges do we face because we define ourselves by the wrong thing or lack a sense of identity?
Identity struggles
400
Give 2 examples of physical causes of mental illness.
Brain chemistry habituated neural pathways, genetics, glandular system, viral or bacterial infection.
400
Medications cannot overcome _________?
Ongoing, unwise, or destructive choices.
400
God also allows, even ________ at times, individuals to remove themselves from _____ environments.
Commands, toxic
400
God warns us against interpreting ________ as _______.
Un-health, punishment.
400
Substance abuse is the result of personal, sinful choices, often is a reaction to suffering, and has a strong tendency to become a(n) ________.
Identity.
500
Name 3 Mental and 3 Personal causes/choices of a mental illness.
Mental - Trauma, poor socialization, abusive/neglectful home life Personal - Consequences of sinful/foolish actions (bad choices with significant emotional/relational effect), addiction
500
It's easy to forget there is always an active-choosing _____?
Person.
500
Every struggle has a _____ and is influenced by its _____. There are not only _________ influences of environment, but also _____ influences.
context, context, developmental, stress
500
Everything that we think, do, and fell registers a biological ______ in our body and brain. Whether this biological ______ is the ______ or _____ of our choice, thought, or emotions can often be difficult to discern.
expression, expression, cause, result.
500
Post-traumatic stress is a reaction to intense ______, often results in many sinful/destructive choices, and carries a stigma that can alter one's _______
Suffering, identity