Is it a sin to use pharmaceuticals?

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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications? Could a Christian argument be made that using stuff like SSRIs and other meds be considered sorcery today? I'm on a drug regimen myself and I feel I kind of need to be, otherwise I don't feel so hot in my mind. I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one. Please be brutally honest if you think it is or isn't. One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments. What do you guys think?
 

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One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments.
I think I agree with the above, though we can talk about whether the pharmaceutical industry influences the medical profession to over-prescribe drugs when other solutions would be preferable.

On the other hand, a relative of mine was put on SSRIs after a little incident involving a gun and a locked room. He can be a little difficult to deal with when he's off his meds. If a person is a danger to himself or others, it would be a sin to NOT take his medications.
 

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I think I agree with the above, though we can talk about whether the pharmaceutical industry influences the medical profession to over-prescribe drugs when other solutions would be preferable.

On the other hand, a relative of mine was put on SSRIs after a little incident involving a gun and a locked room. He can be a little difficult to deal with when he's off his meds. If a person is a danger to himself or others, it would be a sin to NOT take his medications.
Thanks Lambano. Kilroy was an original meme
 
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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications? Could a Christian argument be made that using stuff like SSRIs and other meds be considered sorcery today? I'm on a drug regimen myself and I feel I kind of need to be, otherwise I don't feel so hot in my mind. I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one. Please be brutally honest if you think it is or isn't. One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments. What do you guys think?
Having family members who have mental health issues, it is wise to take prescribed medication if the alternative is to be taken off to the psyche ward in restraints. A lot of people take their meds to offset abberrant behavior and it brings peace to the family, but sometimes leaves the patient feeling “drugged” and a bit unmotivated. They sometimes feel like their feelings are deadened.
If they feel better after some time on their meds, they will sometimes talk themselves out of taking them, and they end up in trouble again. That happens too many times....

Prescription drugs have their place if they are beneficial, but the world we live in today is flooded with toxins that can affect mental health. Sadly, Illicit drugs are scrambling people’s minds and taking up way too much time in the ER’s. Since we can’t do a lot about that, taking medication can be a solution until something more permanent can be found to keep the patient stable. I guess they are working on those things....well we hope they are. :IDK:
 
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I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one.
Christians take medications all the time. So why is this an issue? If the drug is helping you fine. But if you start getting addicted to it, then that becomes another issue.
 
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Kilroy was an original meme
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(Jesus Fishes <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< predate it... ;))
 

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Hello @friend of,

I have to hand people medication who are prescribed them at my work ,whom are for the most part mentally disabled, or intellectually disabled.

You know the biggest solution for a mind and heart change is allowing the Lord Jesus Christ to come into the mix of ones life with other, even if those people are mentally disabled. To love God, and to love others, is what Jesus commanded.

The price of sin has been paid for though. Sin has been taken care of the biggest issue is where is the heart at.

Is the heart bringing forth evil thoughts, or good thoughts by and through the spirit of Christ with-in by prayer and supplications to the Father in heaven.

May the God of peace be with you.
 

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Hello @friend of,

I have to hand people medication who are prescribed them at my work ,whom are for the most part mentally disabled, or intellectually disabled.

You know the biggest solution for a mind and heart change is allowing the Lord Jesus Christ to come into the mix of ones life with other, even if those people are mentally disabled. To love God, and to love others, is what Jesus commanded.

The price of sin has been paid for though. Sin has been taken care of the biggest issue is where is the heart at.

Is the heart bringing forth evil thoughts, or good thoughts by and through the spirit of Christ with-in by prayer and supplications to the Father in heaven.

May the God of peace be with you.
Hello Matthew, welcome back!
 
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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications? Could a Christian argument be made that using stuff like SSRIs and other meds be considered sorcery today? I'm on a drug regimen myself and I feel I kind of need to be, otherwise I don't feel so hot in my mind. I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one. Please be brutally honest if you think it is or isn't. One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments. What do you guys think?
My friend of...there is nothing at all wrong with having to take these meds is properly used. Most people I know are on SOMETHING! Is it wrong for a diabetic to take insulin? Or, someone who has thyroid disease, in order to live, must take Synthroid, or some other new medication for the rest of their lives.
There are situations where our brain chemicals are messed up and we need to produce serotonin, and when there is not enough, medications DO help...not the be all end all but, Christ is at the center of any and all things we decide to do. He blesses us through many means!
 

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Christians take medications all the time. So why is this an issue? If the drug is helping you fine. But if you start getting addicted to it, then that becomes another issue.
Addiction is a minor issue. My kids got in huff after my doctor prescribed oxytocin; and one of them is even a doctor specializing in treating addictions. So I related the concern to my doctor who is a geriatric specialist. He said that of all his patients on 'addictive' medications, only 2% have the slightest issue with stopping the med, and on .5% have a significant issue with it.

But God has prescribed medications for those who are suffering from depression:
"Give strong drink to one who is perishing,
and wine to the bitter in soul.
Let him drink and forget his poverty,
and remember his misery no more." Proverbs 31

"Wine to gladden the heart of man" Psalm 104.

We are talking about booze God has provided as a medication. And to drink until one forgets their sorrow, suggests significant dosage!!
 
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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications? Could a Christian argument be made that using stuff like SSRIs and other meds be considered sorcery today? I'm on a drug regimen myself and I feel I kind of need to be, otherwise I don't feel so hot in my mind. I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one. Please be brutally honest if you think it is or isn't. One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments. What do you guys think?
I would advise you to take the medication.
 
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Addiction is a minor issue. My kids got in huff after my doctor prescribed oxytocin; and one of them is even a doctor specializing in treating addictions. So I related the concern to my doctor who is a geriatric specialist. He said that of all his patients on 'addictive' medications, only 2% have the slightest issue with stopping the med, and on .5% have a significant issue with it.

But God has prescribed medications for those who are suffering from depression:
"Give strong drink to one who is perishing,
and wine to the bitter in soul.
Let him drink and forget his poverty,
and remember his misery no more." Proverbs 31

"Wine to gladden the heart of man" Psalm 104.

We are talking about booze God has provided as a medication. And to drink until one forgets their sorrow, suggests significant dosage!!
I have lost two of my beloved, immediate family members to cirrhosis, and all because of "self medicating" in "significant dosage". I am shocked that you would skew these scriptures so out of context.

"And to drink until one forgets their sorrow, suggests significant dosage!!"

I lost an awesome cousin when he was 17 and driving intoxicated (mainly because he had quite the "significant dosage.")
My uncle, his dad was a heavy drinker to "deal" with PTSD from WWII. Oh gosh, so many horror stories.
Bad advice Stan B, really bad. BTW-alcohol is a depressant, why would you even suggest drinking it to drunkenness?

Nothing wrong in having alcohol in moderation but, depressed people for the most part just don't care and WILL continue to drink until they pass out...I KNOW this for a fact. Addiction is NOT a "minor issue"!!

I am astounded that you would condone this.
 

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I have lost two of my beloved, immediate family members to cirrhosis, and all because of "self medicating" in "significant dosage". I am shocked that you would skew these scriptures so out of context.

"And to drink until one forgets their sorrow, suggests significant dosage!!"

I lost an awesome cousin when he was 17 and driving intoxicated (mainly because he had quite the "significant dosage.")

My uncle, his dad was a heavy drinker to "deal" with PTSD from WWII. Oh gosh, so many horror stories.

Bad advice Stan B, really bad. BTW-alcohol is a depressant, why would you even suggest drinking it to drunkenness?

Nothing wrong in having alcohol in moderation but, depressed people for the most part just don't care and WILL continue to drink until they pass out...I KNOW this for a fact. Addiction is NOT a "minor issue"!!

I am astounded that you would condone this.
Nancy, Why would I condone this? I was just quoting from the Bible, Would it be proper for me to condemn God's gift as something evil??

Probably one of the most powerful gifts God has given us is SEX. It also leaves us open to major destruction when abused!!

Some of God's greatest gifts to us are wonderful when used properly. After 80 years, my life has been made awesomely wonderful, being surrounded by the progeny stemming from the gift of sex!! Kids, grandkids and all that sort of stuff.

>>BTW-alcohol is a depressant, why would you even suggest drinking it to drunkenness?
Actually, it is a depressant for only 20% of the population. Drinking to drunkenness? That's an issue for you to take up with God. He's the One who says:

"Let him drink and forget his poverty,
and remember his misery no more."

Of course, not a big deal for someone who is dying. Strong drink is probably the quick solution, similar to today's loading up a dying person with morphine or whatever. Wine for someone whose life is miserable. Wine, when properly employed, can provide soothing relaxation long before the onset of inebriation.

God has given us powerful tools to address life. He has given us the freedom to use those tools for our benefit, or suffer the consequences of misusing them.
 

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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications? Could a Christian argument be made that using stuff like SSRIs and other meds be considered sorcery today? I'm on a drug regimen myself and I feel I kind of need to be, otherwise I don't feel so hot in my mind. I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one. Please be brutally honest if you think it is or isn't. One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments. What do you guys think?
Antipsychotic medications have become well established as effective treatments. Unfortunately, doctors say that about a third of schizophrenic patients do not respond to the drugs—or to any sort of treatment. And, at best, the medications help to control—not cure—schizophrenia, toning down or eliminating the wilder, acute symptoms of the illness. Still, they are a giant leap from surgery or strait jackets.

So why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts? Antipsychotic drugs are not addictive, do not make patients high, and are not taken for pleasure. Dr. E. Fuller Torrey compares antipsychotic medications to “insulin for diabetes.” And Dr. Jerrold S. Maxmen concludes: “People who take such drugs are not ‘running away from their problems,’ but facing them.”
 

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Sirach 38
1 Honor physicians for their services,
for the Lord created them;
2 for their gift of healing comes from the Most High,
and they are rewarded by the king.
3 The skill of physicians makes them distinguished,
and in the presence of the great they are admired.
4 The Lord created medicines out of the earth,
and the sensible will not despise them.

5 Was not water made sweet with a tree
in order that its[a] power might be known?
6 And he gave skill to human beings
that he[b] might be glorified in his marvelous works.
7 By them the physician[c] heals and takes away pain;
8 the pharmacist makes a mixture from them.
God’s[d] works will never be finished;

and from him health[e] spreads over all the earth.
9 My child, when you are ill, do not delay,
but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you.
10 Give up your faults and direct your hands rightly,
and cleanse your heart from all sin.
11 Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of choice flour,
and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford.[f]
12 Then give the physician his place, for the Lord created him;
do not let him leave you, for you need him.
13 There may come a time when recovery lies in the hands of physicians,[g]
14 for they too pray to the Lord
that he grant them success in diagnosis[h]
and in healing, for the sake of preserving life.
15 He who sins against his Maker,
will be defiant toward the physician.[i]
 
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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications? Could a Christian argument be made that using stuff like SSRIs and other meds be considered sorcery today? I'm on a drug regimen myself and I feel I kind of need to be, otherwise I don't feel so hot in my mind. I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one. Please be brutally honest if you think it is or isn't. One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments. What do you guys think?
You said: "One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments."

i agree with this principle you pointed out especially since we know that when God made everything He said it was Good.

Take everything to prayer and seek advice from different sources and allow the Lord to guide you.

You must be very cautious with todays 'medicine' and doctors since not all are out for your best.

Use the internet to search for holistic alternatives as well.

Do a careful read up on the medicines you are taking and potential side effects.

Pray Pray Pray
 
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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications?..

Nah, God put all kinds of stuff on earth to help us, for example-
"Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing" (Ezekiel 47:12)
But if your meds make you feel worse, ditch them and try something else.
My doctor once put me on anti-depressants even though I told her I wasn't depressed, but I tried them just to keep her happy and they made me feel weird like I was on another planet so I flushed them down the loo, and it took another few weeks before they were out of my system and I felt normal again..:)
 

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Hi so I've been away from this site for several weeks. But I have a question now. Is it sinful to use antipsychotic medications? Could a Christian argument be made that using stuff like SSRIs and other meds be considered sorcery today? I'm on a drug regimen myself and I feel I kind of need to be, otherwise I don't feel so hot in my mind. I'm not taking a whole cocktail of meds, just one. Please be brutally honest if you think it is or isn't. One defense for using is that God created everything to have certain properties and that when these properties are discovered and utilized to produce a medication, God is glorified that His creation has been used to heal another of their ailments. What do you guys think?

In trying to be brutally honest here (of course this is just my take), the taking of "pharmacia" of any kind is sinful.

Is that to say that "love" that covers a multitude of sin, or leading one to Christ does not cover a multitude of sin?
Certainly not!

On the one hand, "love" should not be used to the point of abuse that seduces one, nor give license to continue in sin that God's Grace may abound either! Something that has and still persists in great abundance throughout all Christendom, and mankind in general. And for quite some time.

On the other hand, God knows the weaknesses of these corruptible flesh bodies where rain falls on the just as well as the unjust.

Pharmacia has its good points. Pharmacia has its bad points.

Point being that God has the ability to cure and even prevent any need or reliance upon pharmacia.
Just as pharmacia is striving to cease and desist any need or reliance on God!
 

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In trying to be brutally honest here (of course this is just my take), the taking of "pharmacia" of any kind is sinful.

Is that to say that "love" that covers a multitude of sin, or leading one to Christ does not cover a multitude of sin?
Certainly not!

On the one hand, "love" should not be used to the point of abuse that seduces one, nor give license to continue in sin that God's Grace may abound either! Something that has and still persists in great abundance throughout all Christendom, and mankind in general. And for quite some time.

On the other hand, God knows the weaknesses of these corruptible flesh bodies where rain falls on the just as well as the unjust.

Pharmacia has its good points. Pharmacia has its bad points.

Point being that God has the ability to cure and even prevent any need or reliance upon pharmacia.
Just as pharmacia is striving to cease and desist any need or reliance on God!

i believe that the use of "pharmacia" pertains to those who use/apply it to deceive, corrupt, enslave and lead astray.

We either use our minds/talents/abilities for Good or for Evil = to promote health/healing/life or to corrupt and destroy.

Now it happened on another Sabbath, also, that He entered the synagogue and taught. And a man was there whose right hand was withered. 7So the scribes and Pharisees watched Him closely, whether He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him. 8But He knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, “Arise and stand here.” And he arose and stood.
9Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?”
Luke ch6


And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. 3And He said to the man who had the withered hand, “Step forward.” 4Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?”
Mark ch3