MENTAL ILLNESS CRISIS

2 Corinthians 10:4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

The year I am authoring this article is 2026, and the place is the United States of America. During this time in America there is a lot of mental health issues, and they are escalating to a new level of mental health issues doctors and scientists have not experienced in their lifetime. I am going to begin discussing our scientific doctors and their healing system first before I dive into a particular case with mental health issues. I am going to discuss and how God’s power brakes every spiritual stronghold that tries to separate our mind from Him. I am not a mental health doctor or any kind of doctor. I have only listened to God and read documentation from doctors, read books, studied human behavior through all God has given me through Jesus by the Holy Spirit who teaches us all things. I have studied human behavior for two decades and learned through my own mental health issues. I have had some mental issues of my own I had to overcome. They were not severe in the scientific world, or by human standards, but they were according to God’s  standards for His Kingdom, and they kept me from experiencing the truth and presence of Jesus, God the Son, by God the Holy Spirit. I am a firm believer Science eventually catches up to what God has already revealed to those who know Him. I am also a firm believer in what Jesus teaches us that only a few will find the Spiritual path He walked and talked on compared to those who do not.

Scientist or Doctors have learned from each other since the two began learning about the human body and mind, how to diagnose and label mental issues, and have used natural and pharmaceutical medication and counseling as remedies. I do not believe that all the diagnoses they have labeled  are true and all the pharmaceuticals that most describe truly help us, but some can. Sleep aids, and medications that prove to calm a spirit is helpful until the mind has proven to train itself by the good thoughts from God through Jesus that God the Holy Spirit ignites. The Holy Spirit gives us thoughts that give each chemical in the brain the correct measure that prove balance and has overcome every dark thought that wants to take a strong hold. I am not going to discuss all the mental illnesses I have studied  and the diagnosis I disagree with and why. I know no pharmaceutical drug can copy the chemicals in the brain and ignite the right measure and balance, but they can slow the spirit down until the mind gains the self-control Jesus gives by the Holy Spirit. God taught me this and I am not a doctor, but science has caught up to His teachings.

During the past few centuries scientist have had the technology to see our genetic and hormone systems in ways that reveals how our mind health originates from our own thoughts we practice and follow. Science has proven our thoughts may not control our hormones or genes  directly, but how we respond to our thoughts can influence the chemicals our hormones produce  that causes our mind to operate as God designed it. Scientist who study the brain are called Neuroscientist. They claim our thoughts transform our hormone levels by sending chemical charges to our brain, like lightning, that releases chemical like messengers that give us the wrong or correct measure of chemicals we need for our mind or brain. One of the key hormones that causes stress is cortisol. When we are stressed over any circumstance, an idea or thought of who we are, or who we want to be, this hormone can block the other positive hormones that gives our brain balance and blocks the positive chemicals from working properly.

God plainly teaches us we can block the Holy Spirit’s Work in us and through us by our own understanding of the thoughts we have. God is using science to prove what He teaches us all through the Holy Spirit. We can block His light by our own dark thoughts we all have that He never gave or gives today. Many people think their thoughts are not dark, but they are according to God His teachings through the Holy Spirit are the only good thoughts we have in our mind that give us the power to break every strong hold, and He has proven this countless times in my life. He has proven this in His Word, and in my own life and the lives of others. Also, many humans think they can manage their own dark thoughts, but that is not true either according to God. Only God our Father says He can manage our dark thoughts and that is why we need to live by His given faith through Jesus, God the Son, by the Holy Spirit to battle against every dark stronghold that tries to consume our mind.

  This article is addressing one mental illness, Postpartum Depression that leads to Postpartum sycosis. I am aiming this article on this mental illness because of a case that is being tried in Plymouth Massachusetts this year. An alleged murder case that evolves doctors who has diagnosed a mother, Lindsay Clancy, with  a mental illness called Postpartum Sycosis. She killed all three of her children in a horrible, planned way, which took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes instantly. I am not crying for the same reason some are crying, but I have learned from Jesus that is expected when we follow Him through the Holy Spirit of Truth. The defense is claiming she experienced Postpartum Sycosis and had no idea what she was doing. That she listened to the dark voices in her mind she could not control, and she knew they were dark and she knew she could not control them. The defense is claiming all this happened was because of all the medications she was on and the mental health professionals that took care of her failed her. The defense claims the drugs caused her to hallucinate, hear voices, have illusions that were not true. The true proven Prosecution’s evidence that has already been revealed she does not deny claims she planned her husband to leave the house far enough away for her to separate each child in different rooms in their basement,  kill her children by strangulation from her exercise bands,  then answer a phone call from her husband and talk clearly to him, and then after the phone call walk upstairs to the second floor, slice her own wrist, and jump out of a two-story window of her home to kill herself. She lived and now is paralyzed from the waist down and living in a mental care facility. Her trial started a few weeks ago and I have been following it to learn more about human behavior. I have studied mental disorders for twenty years through books and documentaries and learned from humans all over the world in different environments. It is not hard to learn about human behavior when we desire to look through the eyes of Jesus and follow Him through the Holy Spirit. He compels us to learn about humans, ourselves first, and dark and light spirits, not to condemn others, but to convict others through the Holy Spirit so they will turn to Jesus.

 Postpartum disorder and its symptoms were first experienced and discussed around 400 BC. The word Postpartum Disorder and the escalated level, Sycosis, was not named until 1797 from a German doctor named Friedrich Benjamin Oslander. He was the first to name it in a written medical journal for all doctors to learn from. Doctors still do not know a lot about this mental illness. It still has a lot of unanswered gaps that escalate unanswered questions that lead to problems. I know God the Holy Spirit through Jesus, God the Son, sent by God our Heavenly Father, did and always has to this moment in time broken every dark stronghold regardless of if Science has not caught up with Them and Their truth. I know there are side effects from pharmaceuticals that can harm us, and harm others. There has never been a study found that proves medication is the sole reason anyone with Postpartum mental disorder as led them to sycosis and the killing of their children. Doctors claim there are a lot of factors, and they all lead to getting mental counseling. If these dark uncontrollable thoughts do not change then mental centers with 24/7-hour care advise patients to stay in them. Lindsay was advised, and she declined. She declined several counseling sessions those five days she was in a mental care treatment center, and she asked to be discharged even though one doctor advised her to stay. So, I ask myself because I am a mother and I care about all mothers, children, and people. Would I stay living with my children knowing I had these dark thoughts about them and could not control them? Some of you are going to say hindsight is easy to answer the right way, but I do not need hindsight to know this truth. My answer is,  I would one hundred percent accept 24/7-hour care and counseling if I had one dark thought of killing my children and knew I could not control them. The main reason I or anyone turns to Jesus in the first place has always been because we cannot control the evil thoughts and desires within ourselves. I know what some of you will say, “There is always the first case that proves something different.” I do not hold any Doctor or health system responsible for any human mental health tragedy each human can remedy themselves through the grace-fed truth and thoughts God gives their mind. We are responsible for most of our mental health illnesses. Not doctors or mental health centers. I do hold them responsible when they misdiagnose and mistreat patience that need help that do not know God and how to practice His given thoughts He places in our mind that can and has always broken every stronghold any dark thought that tries to consume our mind. Most doctors desire to help  their patience by practicing good mental proven health counseling even if they do not acknowledge where their good thoughts come from. They use terms like “dark thoughts” as the terminology to describe mental thoughts that harm them and thoughts of light that can help them when they are willing to train their mind through those “good positive thoughts.”  I often wonder who gave therapist the knowledge of dark and light thoughts to use in their counseling sessions and do they ever acknowledge God as the giver of all good thoughts that break every stronghold through the Holy Spirit of Truth.

I pray for all that is personally involved in this case, including all who desire to learn from it. Someone ask me, “Do you have any sympathy for Lindsay?” No, I reply with Peace. I have a Peace that goes beyond human understanding. They reply with a deeper curiosity, “Why not, and who did you cry for?” I have an overwhelming sympathy for Jesus, and shed tears for Him, her children, and family members that were clueless about how evil these dark thoughts were, but Lindsay knew. I have sympathy for every person that denies help from those who desire to give it. I have sympathy for every person that is searching for the truth and who knows the truth and freely shares it at all times and does not hide the truth or plan to do something harmful. I do not have any sympathy for those who reject the truth and live a lie they try to convince us is truth and neither does God. God hates falsehood in us all and haughty eyes who thinks they can control their own darkness. They are deceiving spirits and are trying to strip the truth God Gives from our mind so we will follow them or support them. I pray for Lindsay’s soul without sympathetic emotions of pity but with the Peace and hope Jesus gives. I can love through Jesus without sympathetic emotions just like He did and still does. I have no pitiful emotions for her. In fact, I think she has been blessed with another chance to live with the truth and grace God gives.  Is Lindsay Clancy an evil monster? No, she is a human that thought she could control evil thoughts like she controlled her own life by human works through her own human power that is very controlling, and she failed herself by not listening and following Jesus. My friend replied, “It has to do with a lot more than that and how can you lack sympathy for her.”  I replied with the same level of Peace and clarity, “She used every good thing she could do to make herself a good mother to cover up her evil thoughts, but those who know Jesus know that mindset blocks His thoughts and presence from entering the mind. Faith from Him, giving us His power in all we need through His words and  His deeds is what breaks every stronghold. Our thoughts, words, and deeds will never break any dark thought or stronghold that tries to separate us from God. Humans have no power over any dark thought, only Jesus does. She walks in the courtroom with a cross around her neck and she has no clue what that cross she is wearing means. My friend ask, “What would you tell her if you could talk to her? I would tell her the same thing I tell myself when I have a dark thought. When a whisper of one dark thought comes to my mind I turn quickly to Jesus before it has finished the thought. I would tell her, “You need to turn to Jesus, accept His truth, and tell the truth, the whole truth. You need to accept the consequences of your actions through all this court justice system reveals. Then, how God uses you in prison or the mental hospital you will draw people to Him as the good you are, and away from you being hurt from the darkness you know you did and everyone else seeing what you did in your past. I would tell her I listened to many dark thoughts in my life, and I had to confess them to Jesus and others too. You planned no one, not even yourself to face or see the darkness in you anymore, but you would have to see it for eternity if you died. Jesus had another plan for you. He has given you a chance to redeem yourself through His truth and confessing the truth. You have been given a chance to spread His grace-fed mercy of giving you more life here to use for His purpose in whatever facility, hospital, or jail you will live in. What you will receive from Jesus now and receive when you die His way, not yours, for eternity will be far more than any reward from yourself or any person here.” ❤️🙏🎇✝️

Written by Victoria Gann

August 2, 2026