What is a Psychological Disorder Really?

“Notice how a psychological problem and sin—when correctly defined—are one and the same.”

What Is Psychology?

From the Greek and the Latin, Psychology is the study of the soul only—not the study of the brain, brain chemistry, or genetics.

What Is Psychiatry?

From the Greek and the Latin, if Psychology is the study of the soul only, that makes Psychiatry the healing and study of the soul only—not the healing and study of the brain, brain chemistry, or genetics.

What Is the Soul?

In human beings only, our soul is (for the most part) our immaterial (spiritual) intellect (mind) and free will to choose.

Our immaterial soul is our personhood.

Our immaterial soul is immortal and will separate from our body and brain when we physically die.

What Does the Soul Do?

Our spiritual immaterial soul is the form of our body and animator of our body.

Our spiritual immaterial soul—our intellect (mind) and free will to choose—is how we both rationally (true, right, good, loving, virtuous, functional) and irrationally (false, bad, wrong, unloving, unvirtuous, dysfunctional) think, believe, expect, want/desire, like, dislike, and are attracted to.

These interior actions cause our psychological emotions and feelings. They are the operations of our intellect and free will, known as the conscience and our ability to reason when in action.

This list of interior actions represents all our “reasons” for why we choose our external actions.

“Our interior acts of intellect and will are the reasons for all our external choices.”

What Is Human Behavior?

Human Behavior is any psychological intellectual interior act or physical exterior act (an action) that a human being can choose, which is either:

• false, bad, wrong, unloving, unvirtuous, irrational, dysfunctional, disordered, a problem, or
• true, good, right, loving, virtuous, rational, functional, ordered, a solution

Interior intellectual acts include thoughts, beliefs, expectations, wants/desires, likes, dislikes, attractions, and the emotions and feelings resulting from them—all of which even “a dead man” can do.

What Is a Psychological Problem/Disorder?

A psychological problem is the absence of what is objectively True, Good, Right, Loving (including Virtuous), Rational, Functional, Ordered, a Solution regarding how we relate to:

• oneself,
• another,
• situations,
• concepts, or
• objects (including substances, weather, and brute animals).

A psychological problem is what is interiorly intellectual and exteriorly physical that is objectively false, bad, wrong, unloving (including unvirtuous), irrational, dysfunctional, disordered, a problem in how we relate to the above.

A psychological problem is what is not of God, Who is Truth, Love, and Virtues.

What Is Sin?

Sin is the absence of what is objectively True, Good, Right, Loving (including Virtuous), Rational, Functional, Ordered, a Solution regarding how we relate to:

• oneself,
• another,
• situations,
• concepts, or
• objects (including substances, weather, and brute animals).

A sin is what is interiorly intellectual and exteriorly physical that is objectively false, bad, wrong, unloving (including unvirtuous), irrational, dysfunctional, disordered, a problem in how we relate to those same things.

A sin is what is not of God, Who is Truth, Love, and Virtues.

“Notice how a psychological problem/disorder and sin are the same thing.”

Are Psychological Disorders the Same as Sin?

Are Psychological Disorders (erroneously named “mental illness”), including addictions, gender confusion, and attraction confusion, Truth, Love, and Virtues—or falsehoods, unloving, and unvirtuous?

Are the external behaviors of Psychological Disorders—including addictions, gender confusion, and attraction confusion—Truth, Love, and Virtues, or falsehoods, unloving, and unvirtuous?

Psychological disorder labels are nothing more than a particular name (often incorrectly labeled) for a group of objectively false, bad, wrong, unloving, unvirtuous, irrational, dysfunctional, disordered, interior intellectual acts—of attractions, likes, dislikes, wants/desires, expectations, beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and feelings—which can and often are expressed in exterior physical acts that are likewise false, bad, wrong, unloving, unvirtuous, irrational, dysfunctional, disordered including expressions, words, deeds, and what we fail to express, say, or do.

The True Nature of Psychological Disorders

All psychological disorders, addictions, gender and attraction confusion, and bad emotions are abstract intellectual concepts that are our free will to choose. They are the absence of Truth, Love, and Virtues, which is what sin is.

Because these disorders and confusions result from knowingly or unknowingly choosing to reject Truth, Love, and Virtues, the only way to stop suffering from them is to:

“Repent of and stop choosing to reject Truth, Love, and Virtues—and start choosing to want, seek, accept, and live them.”

The practical method for doing so is explained in Theology Of the Soul Psychology Institute’s Lasting Healing Psychology Series, 10 Steps to Lasting Healing: True Psychology, published through Enroute Books and Media.

The Labeling of Disorders

When particular types and degrees of rejection of Truth, Love, and Virtues are repeatedly chosen by an individual, that pattern is what modern psychology and psychiatry label as a psychological disorder—including but not limited to addictions, gender and attraction confusion, or bad emotions.

The Spiritual Reality Behind Psychological Hallucinations

These long term repeated choices to reject Truth, Love, and Virtues can lead to what modern psychology and psychiatry label as “psychological hallucinations.”

In truth, psychological hallucinations are a type and degree of demonic (evil spirit) attack called “extreme obsession” or “mild possession”—which is not formal possession.

Individuals suffer from psychological hallucinations for at least one of two reasons:

1. The degree and manner of their rejection of Truth, Love, and Virtues has opened them to this level of demonic attack, and/or
2. The individual is unknowingly cooperating with and obeying the direct commands of a demon (evil spirit) through erroneous intentions, material medium interaction, and/or failure to perform proper discernment of spirits.