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You’ve obviously never experienced exented [sic] PSTD [sic] or Complex PSTD [sic].

While faith is a incredible foundation, stress disorders are reactions to worldly existence and require intervention.

Faith alone doesn’t health a toothache.

Your error is putting toothache and PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) into the same category. A toothache is organic in nature. PTSD is psychic in nature. A toothache is caused by pressure on a nerve. It is something you directly experience. PTSD is not caused by something you experienced. It's caused by your reaction to something you experienced. That reaction is conditioned by your previous experiences and your understanding of them in the context of your entire life experience and belief structure. An experience that may lead to a PTSD for one person may have little or no effect on another for reasons having nothing at all to do with the event in question. The same is not true of a toothache. A cavity producing enough pressure on a nerve will have the same effect on anyone regardless of a person's beliefs and previous life experience.

This is why a person's faith (because it is directly related to his beliefs about reality and his experiences within it and what they ultimately mean or do not mean) is more likely to be of help in PTSD than in a toothache.

You are an idiot faith healer who personally denies medical immaging technology. Next time you are ill don’t be a hypocrit and be consistant in what YOU ADVOCATE FOR OTHERS. The effects of PTSD can be physically seen in the brain with MRI scans. Since you personally are denying the validity of MRI technology, hold fast to your claimed faith and don’t use them when it is you. MRI is probably of the devil since it contradicts your position anyway.

You are wrong.

While the pain of a toothache and say - a broken arm - are created via different circumstances, they are both ailments of the physical body.

Likewise, the brain is not a incorporeal, amorphous blob of energy. It is physical: and mental stress on the psyche is a chemical and/or energetic overwhelming of the physical pathways of the brain.

Proving that is no more difficult than taking a benzodiazepine in the midst of an acute panic attack. Like taking Vicodin for a toothache, the chemical helps to alleviate the physical trauma.

I’m not denying that faith is important in mental health, I’m denying that it’s “everything”.