HEALING THE MIND AND HEART

Mental Health By the Numbers

General

20.6% of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2019 (51.5 million people). This represents 1 in 5 adults.

Major depressive disorder affects approximately 17.3 million American adults, or about 7.1% of the U.S. population age 18 and older, in a given year. (National Institute of Mental Health “Major Depression”, 2017)

Gender

Women are almost twice as likely as men to have had depression. (Centers for Disease Control “Prevalence of Depression Among Adults 20 and Over: United States, 2013-2016”, 2017)

Health

People with depression have a 40% higher risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases than the general population. People with serious mental illness are nearly twice as likely to develop these conditions.

The Cost

High school students with significant symptoms of depression are more than twice as likely to drop out compared to their peers

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide and is a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. (World Health Organization, 2017)

Depression contributes to the estimated $100 billion annual cost of depression for U.S. employers, including $44 billion a year in lost productivity alone. (Beck et al., 2014; Stewart, Ricci, Chee, Hahn, & Morganstein, 2003)

Life

Mental illness and substance use disorders are involved in 1 out of every 8 emergency department visits by a U.S. adult (estimated 12 million visits)

Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34 in the U.S. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S.

Depression is the cause of over two-thirds of the 30,000 reported suicides in the U.S. each year. (White House Conference on Mental Health, 1999)

Justice System

About 2 in 5 people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness (37% in state and federal prisons and 44% held in local jails).

Treatment

Up to 80% of those treated for depression show an improvement in their symptoms generally within four to six weeks of beginning medication, psychotherapy, attending support groups or a combination of these treatments. (National Institute of Health, 1998)

Preventable??

Treatable??

Despite its high treatment success rate, nearly two out of three people suffering with depression do not actively seek nor receive proper treatment. (DBSA, 1996)

Summary

Mental health is a big problem.

Individually and globally.

Jesus care about it.

Mental Health

Jesus cared for mental health

physical health

Lunatic?

Matthew 4:24 KJV 1900

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

Lunatic?

epilepsy

Today’s standards

epilepsy

not mental illness

400 years ago

epilepsy

“crazy”

Mute

Matthew 15:30 ESV

And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,

often caused by

psychological

physical damage

Grieving

Luke 7:11–15 ESV

Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

Grieving

Jesus cares about

Depression

Social Health

Luke 5:12–14 ESV

While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”

Leprosy was not just

physical problem.

More of a

social problem.

Removed from

family

city

society

beggars

living in camp

depending on mercy

Viewed as

terrible sinners

retribution of God.

Notice how

Jesus heals

Jesus touches him

Catch this!

He was not allowed

to be touched.

Nobody would touch him.

not even spouse...

Fear of infection

Jesus did

unthinkable

touched him.

(CROWD GASPS)

Instead of

becoming infected

healing touch.

Jesus is calling us

to be His hands.

Bring a healing touch

to our lepers.

Who

Pour

outcast

mentally fragile

depressed

marginalized

elderly

Spiritual Healing

The Paralytic

Luke 5:18–26 ESV

And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”

Jesus teaches

connection between

Physically broken

mental/spiritually broken

Comorbidity

The simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient.

Stats

Depressed people

40% more likely heart disease

Diabetes

40% chance of depression.

Other Commodities

Physical / Spiritual

Mental / Spiritual

Deeper Question

What if the

mental health issues

physical health issues

both tied to deeper

underlying issue?

Spiritual Brokenness???

Charles Darwin, known for his theory of natural selection, noticed that his later life included a “loss of happiness.” While he never acknowledged that it might have been related to his changing worldview, which eventually rejected the idea of a higher power in favor of philosophical naturalism, it is hard not to wonder about the connection.

Darwin observed, “Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds . . . gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare. . . . Formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. . . .

I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Listen

Jesus ministered to

their “felt need.”

He healed

the crippling paralysis.

But!!!

He also healed

crippling sin problem!

As spiritual healers

we have this same ability.

We can do work

Doctors cannot!!!

But how?

one last story...

Demon Possessed Boy

Matthew 17:14–20 ESV

And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Mental and Spiritual Health

Disciples Couldn’t

Prayer and Fasting

We given power

heal spiritual illness

Previous Church Member

They must choose.

God will not

go against their free will.

Similar issue

Addiction

All kinds

Tobacco

Alcohol

media

music

novels

mature content

food

etc.

Mark 16:9 ESV

Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Jesus could read minds

God still can.

I cannot!

Individual

must choose

to be set free.

Jason

Application

Physical Needs

often lead to other needs

emotional

spiritual

mental

social

We have the opportunity

reaching deeper needs

God has given us

authority

power

to minister to

Deeper Needs

Mental

Spiritual

Social

Emotional

Summary

Some of these needs

require their commitment

For example

Forgiveness of sins

we can lead them

they must be repentant

Drug Addiction

God can free them

we can support them

they must choose

address underlying issues

Appeal