Dr. Tabatha Barber argues that medication alone misses the point of mental health treatment. She points to faith as central to healing and explains how trauma creates shutdown states in the nervous system, leading to depression and anxiety that drugs won't address.
And often this is the narrative we have, don't we? We go and see our doctor and we say, I'm anxious, and they'll say, okay, here's the medication. Or we'll go to the doctor, and I'm absolutely not knocking medication at all. I think it can be a really powerful tool, but it's not the centerpiece of the puzzle. Jesus is the centerpiece of the puzzle. It can be part of it. Or we, yeah, we go and we say we're depressed, but there's no wider narrative of, okay, if you're depressed, that's hypoarousal, and that means you're in your dorsal vagal, which means you shut down. Why are you shut down? How are you numbing? How are you, um, keeping yourself distracted and why?
