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    Eden Anderson replied to the topic Mental Illness/Disorders In Christian Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 6 years, 9 months ago

    @aislinn-mollisong Thanks for your thoughts! 😀

    Thanks for your perspective…it’s really helpful hearing from somebody that’s dealt with things like ADHD.

    @kari-karast Aww, sorry you’ve got a cold! That stinks. 😑 Hope you get over it soon!

    Yeah, I’m trying to work on too many stories too, right now. That’s just the the life of a writer, I guess. 😆

    Hey, that’s okay! No worries…thanks for at least trying to help!

    @seekjustice You’re a dog trainer?!! What even?! That’s so cool! 🤩

    It feels like every time I talk to you on here, I learn something new and awesome about you. Like, how do you even have time to do all the stuff that you do? 😀

    Since you know a lot about PTSD, maybe you could help me. *rubs hands gleefully while thinking of the best ways to get the most information I possibly can from you*

    As a couple of people have already said, our minds and souls are linked. But neither one is purely responsible for PTSD, in my opinion, and so neither can really fully heal it either. Of course, I believe God could heal PTSD, just as he can heal cancer and brain injuries and everything else, but the fact is that he usually doesn’t completely take it away.

    A-men. Thank you and say it louder for the people in the back, please! (And I feel like this may apply to some other things besides PTSD as well.)

    Having said that, I firmly believe that we can change. I do my best to give my characters realistic reactions to war and abuse, in some cases giving them PTSD and anxiety when it seems to fit the character. And obviously, a lot of you guys feel the same way and are trying to do the same. Anyway…does this make sense? Am I just rambling?

    That was such a positive note to end on! Thank you. 😍 Yes, you made sense and no, you weren’t rambling. 😀

    @jenwriter17 Thanks, Jenna! I may just have to check them out.

    @evelyn

    I can’t say I have read many books that portrayed mental illnesses and in a way I’m scared to even know what Christian novels have to say about it. When my family was going through a rocky time because of a sudden and extreme case of mental illness it was really painful when old friends would come and pull us aside and tell us what is happening is happening because of my parent’s lack of faith and that we need to believe better for her to heal and so on and so forth.

    I am so sorry you had to go through that! That is horrible.

    Not to make any enemies, in fact if anyone around here knows me they’ll know I hate “Christian Fiction” because it is usually so sterilized and stiff and rubs me in all the wrong places (like for starters that chunk that ends the book on the conversation. Please. Just don’t.)

    Do you mean like all christian fiction or stereotypical “christian fiction”? Because I hardly ever read books that fit in the christian fiction category either but I’ve read some and not all of them are sterilized and end in conversions. (granted A LOT of them do…) I’d love to talk with you more about Christian fiction and what your thoughts on it are. 😀

    I’m really curious by what Sarah said too…maybe we both just heard her wrong…?

    The topic of depression as a mental illness I can not speak for. Its a real thing sometimes, but even then it confuses me and sometimes I wonder if there are people that use it as excuses in certain circumstances (just like people will use the excuse of introvert to opt out of mission/community/church work because “oh I’m an introvert.)

    I don’t know. I don’t really want to make any type of blanket statement when it comes to depression because I don’t really understand it. And I wouldn’t want to accuse someone as using as depression as an excuse, although their are probably people who have done that. I do know that depression can be caused by an imbalance in your brain and is very real. (At least, that’s what I’ve heard…don’t just take my word for it though. I could be wrong.)

    You have some great thoughts, Evelyn. Thank you so much for speaking up, even though you’ve gone through really hard stuff. ❤️

     

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