Hazards to Spiritual Growth - Part 4

Michael Emlet ends this chapter returning to the subject of the book: psychiatric medications and diagnoses.

What does this mean with regard to the use or non-use of medications? Don't be too quick to cast off suffering as though immediate relief from trials is the only good God is up to. And don't think it's more "spiritual" to refrain from taking medications, as though character refinement through suffering is the only good God is up to. We don't choose our suffering in some masochistic way. Yet we are called to a life of walking in the footsteps of our suffering Savior. Christ teaches us a cross-centered and dependent lifestyle (Luke 9:23). And this is true in all situations of life.

Wise counsel for those who counsel others in everyday life.