GENERAL
This is a series of three lessons, The Three
P's: Psychoneurosis, Psychopsychosis and Psychopathic.
The first lesson will deal with "The Neurotic
Personalities (Psychoneurosis)"; second lesson "The
Delinquent Personalities (Psychopsychosis)" and third
lesson "The Pathologic Personalities (Psychopathic)".
These are the results of unresolved traumas of mind
and emotions.
Many people suffering from some form of
personality disorder believe they cannot be helped at
all. They are happy to find that they can be helped by
God's provisions through Jesus Christ. Many that you
think will never make it do. They start off by
attacking one or two problems and follow right on
through to success.
We've also worked with a few people who didn't
really seem to have many problems and they would get a
lot of help. Maybe they would get a job and lose their
government aid. Then they would decide they didn't
want to go through with deliverance and discipline
because of money, or persecutions.
As you will find in Pigs in the Parlor, most
personality problems begin with that first deadly
wound of rejection which is not handled properly.
Satan and his demons build a strong web around
rejection as the person tries to protect himself from
further rejection and its pain.
I would like to share with you some very
wonderful verses from God's Word. These verses were
very vexing to me at one time.
First I'll share one group of verses which
encouraged me while at the same time these others
troubled me.
Isaiah 61:1-4, The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek,
the poor and afflicted; He sent me to bind up and heal
the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the physical
and spiritual captives, and the opening of the prison
and of the eyes of those who are bound. To proclaim
the acceptable year of the Lord - the year of His
favor - and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all who mourn. To grant consolation and joy to
those who mourn in Zion, to give them an ornament - a
garland or diadem - of beauty instead of ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
heavy, burdened and failing spirit; that they may be
called oaks of righteousness, lofty, strong,
magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice
and right standing with God, the planting of the Lord
that He may be glorified. And they shall rebuild the
ancient ruins and raise up the former desolation's and
renew the ruined cities, the devastation's of many
generations.
Verses 1-3 show us what God planned to do in
each of our lives. He knows we have all the problems
listed. This is a mighty job and God can only
accomplish this job if we cooperate with Him. This
cooperation means we will have to read, study and
discipline ourselves to obey His Word (I Pet. 1:4-9).
After Byron's death, each of us had our own personal
struggle. I could not see how I would ever have any
joy again except being joyful over my salvation.
Verse 4 tells us what we will be able to do if
we allow verses 1-3 to take place in our lives.
I thought, "God, that's a very big job you've
got in me". Phil. 1:6 gave me the answer. He will
complete the job if I cooperate with Him.
Sometimes I find myself and others fulfilling
Jer. 6:16. The Lord said Stand by the roads and look
and ask for the eternal paths, where is the good, old
way; then walk in it, and you will find rest
for your soul. But they said, 'We will not walk in
it'. Does this sound like you? Young people today, as
well as old, say "No" to God.
Matthew 11:28-29, Come to Me, all you who labor
and are heavy-laden and over burdened, and I will
cause you to rest. I will ease and refresh and relieve
your souls. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me;
for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart and
you shall find rest for your souls - relief, ease,
refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet. Verse 29
has the key - we are to do the taking of the yoke.
What is the yoke - taking time to learn what
God said to do and doing it. Sounds easy? Try it'!
Learning and doing require great determination and
discipline. It sounds paradoxical that in discipline
and obedience you'll find your greatest freedom.
Everyone thinks if they throw off the yoke they'll be
free. Let's use a classic - the young lady or man who
throws off God's advice to be chaste (sexually
inactive) until married and remain faithful to mate to
death. He or she thinks they are free of old moral
restraints only to find sexual diseases aplenty and a
life of agony.
Matt. 11:30, For my yoke is wholesome (useful
and good) not harsh, hard, sharp and pressing, but
comfortable, gracious and pleasant; my burden is light
and easy to be borne. Really obeying God is easier
than carrying the load of sin.
Example A friend of my dad's,
while in service, enjoyed many female friends and got
sexually-transmitted diseases several times. Each time
his disease was cured by penicillin. He figured he
beat the odds, found a wonderful girl and got married.
In a few years they had a sweet beautiful baby girl.
The baby had syphilis and died in about one year. Next
baby is a beautiful girl again; at three years old
she's fine. He's making a fortune as a hotel baker .
He still thinks this time we made it. But alas, at
seven years this child starts going blind and takes
ten years to die. I worked for this man in his bakery
for two years. He cried all day everyday. There was no
help for his pain. He did not find healing for his
girls.
Today one of our greatest problems as
individuals and as a nation is our heavy,
over-burdened lives. Before I ever knew there was
deliverance and hope, I thought "God, you surely must
be kidding."
But after my first deliverance, I was able to
understand a lot better what God was saying. We can
lead a peaceful contented life mentally as well as
spiritually. The soul contains your mind, will and
emotions. Sometimes in the King James version these
words are used interchangeably.
When you have demons in your soul, you think
this is surely an unkeepable promise or pie in the sky
bye and bye. Please read Phil. 4:7-9, test your inner
emotions, actions and will against the scriptures, and
see if you score very well. Rejoice in the Lord
Always? Do you see your unselfishness and
consideration? Do you ever fret or be anxious? Always
in everything give thanks to God? Show God's Peace?
Think only on things true, just, pure, kind, lovely,
excellent, etc.? Do you fix your mind by force, if
need be, on the above? Now verse 7 always eluded me. I
look always for someone who has God's peace, the peace
of mind which passeth all understanding. Mostly I
found people worse off than me.
In Gal. 5:22 and I Pet. 5:10, I found that the
work of the Holy Spirit in me should have accomplished
love, joy, peace, patience (an even temper), kindness
and goodness, faithfulness, meekness, humility,
gentleness, self-control, self-restraint and
continence but it had not done so yet.
I became fearful that I was not saved even
though I had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
two years before. Not only was I in trouble but also
my husband and daughter. Each of us wondered, I'm
sure, why the others didn't do better while minimizing
our own shortcomings.
Two years of frustrations and prayers paid off
one night when God showed us about evil spirits. We
began to learn then and it hasn't stopped yet.
So I want to share a few things with you that
we have observed during deliverance sessions about
ourselves and others that may help you.
TRAUMA
All people who have ever lived on this earth
will at one time or another encounter an earth shaking
event from which your life will never be the same
again. When we refuse to face it honestly, we can
enter into mental or emotional fantasy.
My first, I suppose,
was ten years of child beatings at the hands of my mom
and sometimes my dad. I used the psychosis of denial
to repress these beatings so that I do not remember
them very well. At ten years of age, our daughter saw
the death of the brother she loved more than anyone
else. She also developed and used some forms of
denial. The denial was only recently faced up to and
its power broken. She now feels so free and happy, the
first time in thirteen years (facing up with no
pretense = freedom).
Most of us use some
form of denial to help us adjust to this trauma. We
simply deny it, build withdrawn fantasy lives that do
not deal with the real world we face. This is a
childish way to adjust to trouble. Unless the people
around us understand what is happening to us, know
God's solution and are willing to practice it, we may
spend a lifetime in a troubled state of mind.
Sometimes we will be only mildly troubled but
sometimes it may grow to a neurosis or psychosis.
When we refuse to
deal honestly with life or have unrealistic
expectations of an easy life with no problems or
sadness, refuse to be responsible for our action, we
make lies our refuge (Isa. 28:15). And God will send
you strong delusions (II Thes. 2:11). In our humanity
we often resort to lives of fantasy when faced with
trauma which cuts us to our core. In Psalm 51:6, God
desires truth in our inner parts. In John 8:32, the
truth sets us free.
DEFINITIONS
Soul - mind, will and emotion - your personality. Will
- the power of choice and deliberate action or
intention resulting from exercising this power.
Emotion - a physical or mental response to happenings.
It may be a change in feeling, behavior or internal
excitement with both superficial (mild) or deep
(extremely strong) phenomena being elicited. Mind -
the thinking and perceiving part of consciousness,
intellect, reason. Trauma - a severe, sudden shock
that has a permanent effect upon the personality.
Neurotic - a maladjustive form of an adjustment
mechanism. Neurotics do not adjust normally to trauma.
Psychosis - a mental or personality disorder, more
severe than a neurosis, having unrealistic behavior
that often is so dangerous that a person must be
institutionalized. Psychopath - a person with an
imperfect or nonexistent understanding of morality,
and consequent antisocial conduct. In short, a
psychopathic personality has absolutely no moral
scruples - no conscience.
Personality
Impairment - falls into three separate categories:
neurosis, psychotic and psychopathic. Each is separate
yet sometimes overlap. A person may have problems in
only one area or some in each area.
Neurosis is the
milder form of abnormal reaction to trauma. It is an
inability to deal with traumatic experiences in a
mature way and almost always has roots in childhood.
Sexual, emotional or
physical abuse, neglect, too much attention or too
little attention, unrealistic expectations from
parents, death and traumatic accident are only a few
things that accelerate a small problem into a larger
one.
Neurosis is evident
when a function of the personality escapes conscious
control: groundless fears, uncontrollable ideas,
disturbing behavior patterns, loss of control of body
parts and disability of involuntary organs where no
medical or physical reason can be found.
A common symptom is
groundless fear or anxiety. We're not talking about
normal anxiety or fear when there is immediate danger
but a constant reign of fear. Worry is mild but
continuous fear; panic is extra - intense fear.
Reality - Our world
is full of dangers but God has promised to protect us
and never leave us (Psalm 116:15). Precious in the
sight of God is the death of His saints. Living Bible
says He is present at accidents. In Hebrews 13:5, He
will never, never, never leave us. When hard times
come, God doesn't get scared and run from us. Many of
the hard times or traumatic experiences can be used by
God, with our cooperation, to refine us and make us
strong.
Fearing and
fantasizing (denial), and fearing what may happen and
usually doesn't wastes mental power and capacity.
Panic with no cause
or an imaginary cause is a sure sign of neurosis. We
panic about fear of death, fear of death of loved one,
pain, serious illness and permanent injury. Bodily
signs of panic are heart palpitations, rapid pulse,
sweaty hands and or feet, rapid breathing, perspiring
and dizziness. Anxiety may be caused by memory of pain
caused by failure, rejection, cruelty and being
projected to future events.
Some common phobias
are fear of falling from high places (bathophobia),
being confined (claustrophobia), of corpse
(necrophobia), and fear of open spaces (agoraphobia).
Phobias are
unreasonable fear such as fears of snakes, mice,
spiders, heights, darkness, sex, leaving home and
driving after an accident. When these interfere with
normal life they become a neurosis.
Obsessions - a
conscious idea or device recognized as being
irrational such as a desire to rape, exposure,
prostitution, murder, hurt, drunkenness, drugs,
peeping toms, homosexuality, gluttony, etc. An
obsessive neurotic does not approve of his desire but
cannot get rid of it.
Compulsions -
Attempts of the obsessive to hide or counteract the
obsession as a person who fantasizes about
homosexuality but goes to great lengths to show how he
hates it. If desiring to kill someone, he may go to
great lengths to show he loves them. Excessive hand
washing is fear of getting germs. Extreme spotless
housekeeping sometimes masks a dislike for the family
being cozy or comfortable. Lust is hidden by unusually
strong attempts to show he does not lust.
Kleptomania -
desiring to steal even when you can pay.
Mania - committing
acts against your conscious will, like stealing, fire
setting, assault, rape and rage. When not doing these
things, they seem normal.
Sleepwalking -
desire to do something impulsive that he may be
ashamed to do when awake.
Amnesia - intense
desire to forget something dreadful.
Hysteria - condition
of people wishing desperately to avoid a distressing
situation. Blindness with no physical or medical
reason, paralysis and convulsions can result also from
repressed emotions or motives. These symptoms satisfy
the person.
Hypochondriac -
behavior of one who uses illness to keep from doing
something he doesn't want to do; to avoid
confrontation. Example - wife gets a headache every
time husband gets romantic.
Death Wish,
Neurasthenia, Accident Prone - these are people who
have a strong sense of guilt and feel the need to be
punished.
Neurotic Depression
or Melancholia - a person sad for no reason or sorrows
for an abnormally long time. Melancholia is prolonged
grief and finding comfort in it.
LIST OF
NEUROTIC PERSONALITY DEMONS AND CHARACTERISTICS
Bind all demons that we or our ancestors have
given power to control our minds. Bind all demons of
the occult, cults, drugs, rock music, sexual sins,
occult games, etc. (II Cor. 6:14-18; 10:3-6; Eph.
6:11-18). Loose the Seven-Fold Spirit of God: Wisdom,
Understanding, Counsel, Might, Knowledge of God,
Reverence to God and Obedient Fear of God (Isa. 11:2).
In the Name of Jesus, we loose ourselves from your
control. We will have victory over you (Eph. 3:16-19).