I gave a response earlier in the thread that was based on me and was in the moment.
The bigger picture response, regarding people with mental illness, is that the community and theology one aligns themselves with should be a likely safe place.
I don't mean a politically correct place. I don't mean a theology that has had all its thorns and unpleasantness removed. I'm thinking people with serous mental illness ought not engage a worldview or theology that keeps them up at night wondering about the eschatological implications of a meteorite.
Our world has a lot of uncertainty. The answer to uncertainty anxiety ought not be to embrace a rigid system with ultimately more doom and gloom than our uncertain situation already had.
I'm not any sort of authority on the ultimate nature of reality. My main thing about choosing a spiritual or religious orientation as a mentally ill person is that our big picture view of reality does have influence on our day to day coping with reality and our dealing with our mental illness.
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