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Mental Health: Healing emotional scars by Moji Solanke for The Guardian

July 17, 2015 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

Emotional-scarsWhether scars are small or large, whether they represent physical or emotional injury, we all want to be free of them. Our mental health is sometimes at stake. Plastic surgeons here in Indiana and in most states offer removal of physical scars. But what those deeper, often unspoken wounds that seem to scar consciousness? My colleague from Nigeria, Moji Solanke, writing for the July 12, 2015 edition of The Guardian, offers a comforting and healing glimpse of scar removal for the broken and traumatized heart. Here’s Moji:

A scar is a constant reminder of a wound from the past. It may serve as evidence of a horrible event, useful only in establishing guilt in a court case for example, but it also prevents the individual from fully letting go of the memory of the hurt that may have attended the wound. Scars can be unsightly, resulting in the telling and re-telling of the sad experience. Some psychologists opine that verbalising a negative experience may lessen the mental damage, over time. Scars can be physical or emotional. Emotional scars, by their very nature, are invisible, internalised, yet they govern the attitudes, thoughts, even decisions of the sufferer….but the unassailable truth is that God can heal emotional wounds and dissolve the scars….

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Spirituality And Prayer: Key To Mental Health? by Debra Chew for The Chattanooga.com

May 12, 2015 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

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Mental illness. A variety of therapies, often including drugs, are in use in mental health clinics here in Indiana. What happens to the mentally ill person who wants to rely on spiritual means for healing? Can prayer and trust in God really heal mental illness? My colleague, Debra Chew, writing for the May 5, 2015 edition of The Chattanooga.com, shares personal experiences that show the power of prayer for those diagnosed with mental illness. Here’s Debra:

“Spirituality should be considered one of the vital signs in the care and treatment of patients,” said Christina M. Puchalski, MD, FACP, Founder and Director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish). She was speaking to over 400 chaplains, physicians, nurses, and researchers from all around the world who were attending the second annual HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (HCCN) Caring for the Human Spirit Conference held in Orlando in late April. The attendees participated in various workshops and several of them focused on integrating spirituality into care for those suffering from mental illness.

I am familiar with the importance of spiritual care in dealing with mental illness, as close members of my family have dealt with this issue for as long as I can remember. My family didn’t talk openly about it when I was a kid; I just remember feeling sorry for those who suffered because it seemed they didn’t have a sense of inner peace for any length of time. As I moved into adulthood and began a spiritual practice that taught me to turn to God when I had my own health problems…

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