Mentally ill man attempts suicide when meds are replaced with Bible study

Posted by | May 10, 2016 16:28 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Religion

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Alex Jacobson, 26, tried suicide 10 days after going off his meds an trusting his well-being to prayer-based treatment.

The free discipleship program he checked himself into is run by two Assembly of God pastors who hope to heal their patients of addiction, anxiety, anger, depression and “the emotional residue left by mental, physical and sexual abuse” by using prayer, Scripture memorization and developing a closer relationship with God, according to program’s promotional materials. The only requirement of the patients is that you can’t use any mood altering drugs, prescribed or not. Assembly of God churches hold as a cardinal doctrine that the Divine will heal the sick, though they do allow medical help and using prescription drugs if necessary.

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37 responses to Mentally ill man attempts suicide when meds are replaced with Bible study

  1. Granite Skyline May 10th, 2016 at 16:51

    This faith-based “treatment” bullshit needs to be stopped.

    It’s all an ego-trip on the part of the pastors. They think Gawd has granted them special healing powers that supersede mere mortals who went to medical school for 10 years.

    ……
    A few years ago a dentist in my town got sucked into a fundamentalist sect/cult. They convinced him that he could be healed by prayer and that he should stop taking his anti-psychotic medication. A couple months later he brutally stabbed his wife to death in front of their young children because he thought she was the anti-christ.

    IMO, the pastors should have been charged with being an accessory to murder.

    • Lyndia May 10th, 2016 at 22:09

      Sad.

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    • Bunya May 11th, 2016 at 13:33

      I think most pastors are Atheists, but there’s more money in peddling an imaginary product.

      • Granite Skyline May 11th, 2016 at 13:53

        I think you are right.

      • Dwendt44 May 12th, 2016 at 23:48

        Some stay in the cleric garb ’cause they have no other skills.

  2. Gina Bousquet May 10th, 2016 at 17:14

    Assemblies of God…such a plague!

  3. Dwendt44 May 10th, 2016 at 17:34

    Nothing fails like prayer.

    • Larry Schmitt May 10th, 2016 at 18:00

      Or something happens. Which would have happened with or without the prayer.

      • Lyndia May 10th, 2016 at 21:58

        PRAISE the lord and pass the ammunition.

      • clemans May 12th, 2016 at 09:18

        I am an atheist and I used to be a believer, on 9/11 the shock was such that I tried praying again……it helped calm me down…..I knew one of my friend’s had family in one of the tower….he was never found except for an arm with his ring finger still attached, so that was identified. It was like meditation. It helped me but other methods would have also. It didn’t however keep the second tower from falling…..more planes from flying into buildings and more people from dying.

        When people pray for something and it happens then god is great. But what does it say about a god that would let infants be born without brains, or the ability to thrive, or who would allow ignorance on a scale so great one can’t think how to measure it…..or who would allow things like 9/11 to happen. In Sunday school we were fed some story-line that god and Satan were in some pissing match just playing around with people like they were pieces on a chessboard. If a parent allowed their children to suffer as much they would be declared unfit parents and in some states the kids would be removed from the home. We need to do away with gods, or create a useful one.

        • Larry Schmitt May 12th, 2016 at 09:26

          From the time I was a kid, and was taught by the nuns and priests, I never felt anything special in church, never got any sense there was someone listening when I prayed. Only reason I attended as long as I did was I lived at home, and my father forced me to. That’s no way to raise a kid.

          • clemans May 12th, 2016 at 10:00

            no way to raise a child for sure. Before my parents divorced, I was raised Lutheran and went to Sunday school every week. It was what young families did in the 50’s in my mom’s eyes, and she was trying to impress a mother-in-law. After they were divorced, my mom was free. I would get myself up and go to the closest church, out of habit and it was Baptist. I even went to Vacation Bible School on my own. Then I outgrew it and in my 20’s went in search of the real god…..tried hard, couldn’t find him anywhere…..Catholic, Jehovah Witness, Mormon….one where they talked in tongue (not French kissing), and a bunch of others. Couldn’t find any that made any sense.

            • Larry Schmitt May 12th, 2016 at 10:26

              Some people would be better off talking to themselves, than trying to talk to a god that is only in their heads.

              • clemans May 12th, 2016 at 11:01

                I have to think on that one….or translation, I thought of a great line but it isn’t politically correct. SMILES

              • Dwendt44 May 12th, 2016 at 23:47

                that’s more or less exactly what they are doing.

            • leDaver May 15th, 2016 at 02:30

              Agreed, but the one thing I learned, and still try to live by is the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Every religion has a version of it, and too few people live by it. Especially christians.

              • clemans May 15th, 2016 at 07:02

                I don’t believe in heaven or hell, this is all one gets. I try to make it a better place than how I found it.

          • leDaver May 15th, 2016 at 02:27

            I went to church and Sunday School and believed. Then my sister was killed when the vehicle she was in was hit by a train. Any god that would do something like that is a mean, vicious, vindictive psychopath, and not worthy of my devotion.

            • clemans May 15th, 2016 at 06:55

              very sorry about what happened to your sister.

        • leDaver May 15th, 2016 at 02:23

          I, too, have a problem with this. When I ask christians why their god allows such awful things to happen to people every minute of every hour of every day, they usually reply with some version of “he has his reasons, those reasons are unknowable to humans and besides, who are we to question what god does?” It makes me want to scream. Especially when they then proceed to thank their deity for rain or sunshine or some such nonsense.

          • clemans May 15th, 2016 at 06:58

            I like the republican ones, who say people should just be responsible and take care of themselves, stand on their own…..then credit god with everything good that happens to them, instead of admitting something worked out because THEY did it on their own……but god didn’t do anything bad……unless they can blame a flood on gay marriage.

            batshit crazy

    • Lyndia May 10th, 2016 at 22:01

      Nothing happens because he is not listening. Some Christians believe, God only belongs to THEM. They talk to him, they call him, they eat dinner with him, they write him, they email him, some even send him a fax.

      • clemans May 12th, 2016 at 09:10

        there are no gods, so nothing can listen to them from the fantasy world they created.

        When I lived in England there was a story on the news about 221B Baker Street, which at the time was a bank. It has also been the location for Sherlock Holmes’ flat in the fictional stories of the great crime detective. They had a whole office for people to answer letters, written largely by Americans and Japanese people, written to Sherlock, asking for him to help them find a missing ring, puppy, or some other thing they lost.

        I found this comical but it didn’t hurt anybody and if people wanted to lark about pretending Sherlock was real I didn’t see any harm. Religion causes harm.

        • Larry Schmitt May 12th, 2016 at 09:24

          People write to all sorts of fictional characters. Some people can’t distinguish fantasy from reality. Even on “news” outlets, actors are referred to by the names of their characters. Christopher Reeve was constantly being called Superman. I never do that. If I were an actor that would drive me nuts. Seems to me those people are most susceptible to being fooled by religion. It allows them to not take responsibility for their lives.

  4. Lyndia May 10th, 2016 at 22:07

    When those Christians begin bashing you in the head with Jesus Christ, it is enough to make you want to kill yourself.

    • whatthe46 May 10th, 2016 at 22:13

      lol

    • clemans May 12th, 2016 at 09:02

      oh, I see you have met some of my Christian “friends”.

  5. bpollen May 11th, 2016 at 03:01

    Believing some random doofus instead of science and medicine is what Christian Scientists are all about. They think Gawd will heal them. Dumb shites don’t realize that Gawd, if she exists, created antibiotics. 40% of medicines comes from plants, or were first discovered in plants.

    • clemans May 12th, 2016 at 09:04

      I don’t understand how science gets in the name, if they oppose it to begin with.

      • Dwendt44 May 12th, 2016 at 23:44

        the same way that science is added to ‘scientific creationism’. It gives a air of authority it doesn’t/wouldn’t otherwise have.

      • bpollen May 13th, 2016 at 05:05

        I doubt it was some early church father with a puckish sense of humor.

  6. Anomaly 100 May 11th, 2016 at 08:37

    La sigh.

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