Thanks so much for posting this, Hobbles. Very inspirational.

I just did a search for Gheel which also goes by the name of Geel and found that this is still operational. http://faculty.samford.edu/~jlgoldst/

I would ask your prayers for my cousin who said he will not be able to attend my Mum's funeral on Friday as he is suffering depression.

Mum went to her eternal reward just 1/2 hour into Saturday within the Octave of the Assumption. As she spent much of her life conversing with Our Lord, Our Lady and the saints I have no worries for her, but nevertheless she has to make the journey. Her funeral will be on Friday.

Not to spoil this thread, but I am diagnosed with a mental disorder, you probably suspect this from how original some of my posts are, but I don't believe that these "cures" from "mental" disorders count as miracles.
Why not?
Because "mental disorder" is not physical disorder, there is nothing wrong with the brain of someone who does something crazy. Their craziness is psychological in origin, and is because of their conditioning, Pavlov proved this in his infamous tests ( that mental illness could be manufactured in a person by conditioning them in a certain way).

If you act in a crazy manner, you are expressing your humanity. We were not made to live in concrete jungles staring at a flashing square all day long and pretending that this sterile comfortable society is not doing something sinister to our minds and separating us from nature. We were made to be human. This is Catholic, to accept that all aspects of humanity are natural, and that only the unnatural satan inspired aspects are evil. Nature serves God. What is psychiatry, or this stigma movement from these psychiatry supporters? It is either unnatural, because you say that something natural is wrong, OR it is evil, because it comes from the most base impulses of human nature ( satan ) the urge to subjugate others to your will.

I don't pray to this saint, it is obvious ( check out CCHR website) that psychiatry is just another error that the church has yet to overcome, it is ultimately dangerous to Catholicism, Many Catholic practices can be interpreted as mental illness, the Catholic spirit itself can be interpreted as mental illness. What's stopping any of you from being diagnosed with psychosis if someone has a problem with your Catholic practice ( talking to yourself, inflicting pain on yourself and calling it mortification, suspicious of invisible forces calling them demons) There is nothing stopping any of you from getting diagnosed, I know because it happened to me, although I done "crazy" stuff, I am proud of it, proud of it all, and would not change a thing. Psychiatry and those who support it have been the supreme curse of my life, they have destroyed my life over and over and made me a slave whose only purpose in life is to take medication or be locked up.
I want something more, only God can save me, not from fictional illness, but from the persecution and slavery and oppression of the Catholic church by modern society, whose poison has spread deep into the church for centuries.

CCHR... is that a Scientologist organization?

 :scratchchin:Hmmmm...I think I'm suffering from depression.  It's worse in the morning.  Sorry.  Can't go to work.  By 6:00pm I perk up, so looks like I'll make that party, after all!  

 :thinking:Seriously, major depression is not 'the blues'.  Unaddressed, it can result in destruction of relationships, loss of job, failure in school, substance abuse, homelessness, ѕυιcιdє.  There IS a difference.  People who use minor ailments, mental or physical, as excuses make it worse for those who are really afflicted.

@TCat Scientology is anti-psychiatric by nature.

The CCHR was set up by a professor of psychiatry ( who says theres no such thing as mental illness) and by the "church of scientology".
If they are against it, good, the more people the better.  Maybe in the future the church will look back at all the harm it caused and take a Christian attitude towards it, condemn it as heresy and have nothing to do with it.
btw the website has no scientology ideas on it. If anyone proports to care about this subject go to the website and see for yourself.

Thanks so much for posting this, Hobbles. Very inspirational.

I just did a search for Gheel which also goes by the name of Geel and found that this is still operational. http://faculty.samford.edu/~jlgoldst/

I would ask your prayers for my cousin who said he will not be able to attend my Mum's funeral on Friday as he is suffering depression.

Mum went to her eternal reward just 1/2 hour into Saturday within the Octave of the Assumption. As she spent much of her life conversing with Our Lord, Our Lady and the saints I have no worries for her, but nevertheless she has to make the journey. Her funeral will be on Friday.

Yes, please be assured of my prayers for your cousin and the eternal repose of your late mother.

 

Thanks for this. I pray to St. Dymphna every day. BTW, some of the nastiest threads I've ever seen on trad forums have involved discussions regarding psychiatry. This could be interesting.

Talking about this is one reason why I was banned from CAF.
I was saying I should have the same opportunities as others vocation wise and that I didn't have some disadvantage other than a label, others wanted to use it against me. Long story short, eventually I found CathInfo where I get information I use for vocation purposes, so God prevails on way or the other.