Re: Oh My
Submitted by karen hart on 2003-02-3 13:42:05, Monday
In reply to Oh My submitted by Maria on 2003-02-1 18:37:34, Saturday
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Dear Friends at CBLF, What difference does it make? Is gluttony an illness? How about greed? Or the overwhelming urge to sit in a local small town cafe and ruin people's marriages, lives, and careers with gossip? I think Chris has told you all about me. I live in a small town. If a gay bar opened in our little town, I don't even like to think about what the reaction would be. But there is a nice respectable little cafe where gossip takes place all the time and no one thinks of it as a den of iniquity. I have a real question with every mental and emotional issue being called an 'illness'. In the last century, the mental health profession replaced religion as the venue for deciding morality. (My husband is a minister who thinks that most therapists are preacher wanna-bes.) So instead of dealing with issues in terms of what is right and wrong here, they decided that certain issues were 'sick'. It has become very arbitrary, however, as to what gets labeled an illness and what isn't. That is actually very subjective. It sounds like science, but much of the time it isn't. Okay, depression is an illness, there is a medical component. Is there a medical component to boylove? There is no diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV for people who feel compelled to ruin other's lives with gossip. There is a diagnosis for compulsive overeaters. And no diagnosis for greedy people who work hard to amass wealth and never feel like they have obtained enough of this world's good no matter how much they get (does that sound like an addiction to you?) I could go on, but that is enough for now. Chris has told me all about you. Keep up the good work. In Christ, Karen Hart |
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