I ran into this problem years ago. According to respected doctors—legally licensed—I was defective. Not just cognitively but morally.
Unless I complied and obeyed the medical system in everything, I might do something unspeakably horrible. Like Andrea Yates who drowned her children or Eric Harris who shot many of his classmates at Columbine.
This belief that I was not just stupid and crazy but evil almost drove me to suicide. Plus, the drugs took the joy out of my life. Numbing me from pain but even more from pleasure. Especially the higher pleasures that come from poetry, classical music, paintings, walks in the woods and talking to friends.
After almost 25 years as the Perfect Psychiatric Consumer I started reading the works of honest but unpopular psychiatrists. William Glasser, Peter Breggin, Terry Lynch… I realized I’d been had. The only chemical imbalance in the brain God so fearfully and wonderfully designed was placed there by greedy, power hungry human beings.
My body, my soul were nothing to them.
Now that I knew the truth I struggled to act on it. I prayed for an opportunity to escape and took it when it came.
Doctors care for the sick. They have no business governing or ruling over people. They are not clergy and cannot turn bad people good however they brag about their powers over the human soul (which they attribute entirely to brain chemicals.
Christian reasons to reject a treatment:
It interferes with your ability to worship God by numbing natural emotions or preventing you from attending church.
It offers more harm than benefit in what it does to your body. The temple of the Holy Ghost.
It interferes with your ability to love your neighbors. Doctors have no business breaking up families and ending friendships. (Mental health is all about segregation outside the asylum.)
The treatment may kill you. If you must be murdered, force the doctor/killer to own up to what he is doing. Living their Lie and pretending they’re helping when they’re crippling/killing with slow poisons is not an act of love for your would-be killers. For their own souls’ sakes, they should be forced to look at what they are doing.
The medicine is unethically produced. Was a human murdered to obtain ingredients? If so, it’s high tech canabalism.
Does the “doctor” demand that you view him as either a god or the shaman you must rely on for access to the god which he demands you fear and worship? Are you to structure your entire life around his “medical treatments” and look to him as the way to salvation? That is idolatry rather than legitimate medicine. Surrendering your body to such a man (or woman) is a grave sin. Your body belongs to God. Christ purchased it with His blood. Don’t hand it over to mad “scientists” to experiment upon and blaspheme God’s image.
As a Christian it’s not only my right but my duty to refuse enslavement to wicked men. If I were sold into sex slavery, I could and would resist till I escaped or died. Rape cannot be helped but willing compliance will never be theirs. They can destroy my body—but not my soul.
Resistance to medical tyranny is obedience to God.
Great Testimony ! ... Reads like a "Breakthrough "--- that took a 1/4 century.
Dumb question : Has reducing treatment helped your relationship w/ the Savior, R.E.?