Depression

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I would caution you to consider carefully what you have advised this
depressed 18 year old to do.  If he was diabetic, would you tell him
to give up his crutch of insulin?  If he was a heart patient, would
you tell him to give up his crutch of blood pressure pills?  If he was
asthmatic, would you tell him to give up his crutch of
bronciodialants? 

Psychoactive medication frequently is liposoluable, meaning that it
disolves in fatty substances, not water.  This makes it take a long
time to reach effective theraputic dosage, and a long time for the
systemic level to taper off after removal from medication.  I am
bipolar (old name was manic-depressive).  Right after I received the
Holy Ghost, I gave up my lithium.  I did fine for 13 months before
winding up back in a psychiatric ward again.  

I also have high blood pressure, and I take pills for that.  I do not
feel any better when I take them than when I don't, but
instrumentation shows that my blood pressure is too high when I don't,
and is OK when I do.  

You can't always go just by feelings.  Did you ever try to drive a car
with a broken speedometer?  Try telling the judge that it didn't feel
like you were going too fast.

I am not saying that God cannot heal these things, but God heals for
his glory.  If modern medicine is available and has an effective
treatment, I suspect God would rather do something obviously
miraculous than something that would be discounted by most people.

There also exists the distinct possibility of malpractice.  If you are
a church employee, or even a volunteer worker, you place yourself and
the church in danger of a lawsuit.  Since you have this person living
in your home at age 18, he may or may not be classified as a minor.  I
would work with his doctor towards removing medication if you feel
that is the thing God wants.

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