Mental Wholeness

February 1st, 2023
by Yolanda Jackson

“Mental Wholeness”
By Min. Katrenia White
Impact Breathe Ministry

To become mentally whole is allowing yourself to face those traumas, pains and wounds from the past. Most of us are carrying things that God wants us to give to him. Yet, for some we hold on to our emotional baggage like a security blanket; because we are used to harboring those emotions and have learned how to cover our pains. What we have to realize is we then create two or more different people in our minds which creates personality disorders.

What does "personality disorder" mean?

A personality disorder is an unhealthy way you think about yourself, interact with others and behave. We have the broken version of ourselves from our childhood due to painful events of past or events in young adulthood or adulthood (abandonment, abuse, neglect, divorce and/or grief). In efforts to ignore, suppress and cover pain we become a functional version of ourselves as we go about our daily duties thus creating two different version of ourselves.

What do personality disorders look like?

There are maybe 16 personality disorders, but I will name just a few such as:

Cluster A personality disorders are characterized by odd, eccentric thinking or behavior. They include paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder.
- Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
- Cluster C personality disorders are characterized by anxious, fearful thinking or behavior. They include avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

How does this affect my life?

In my opinion we allow ourselves to partake in a false identity of ourselves instead of walking in the true version of ourselves in which God created and owning all of the wounds, scars, and pains. It is only then when God can heal us as an individual and not have this misrepresentation of who we are (false identity).

How can I be healed from my traumas and pains?
- Being courageous to FACE your fears and remove the security blanket. The more you talk about it, write about it and allow those harbored emotions to come up and out; you are then decompressing (healing) and desensitizing yourself to that event.
- Having FAITH that no matter what is going on, there is nothing too big or too hard for God. This means having faith in God. He knew you would encounter hardship and waiting for you to trust him enough to heal you. When you stop asking God “why” and trust him, another level of healing begins.
- Release all and any resentments (un-forgiveness) towards yourself and others. This requires empathy, compassion and understanding of why you made those decisions at that time or why someone felt their decisions or behaviors was right. THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU AGREE to their or your behaviors but understand where they came from. Examples: “I was not in my right state or mind or either hurt people hurt people “. We do not condone any behaviors nor feel forced to reconcile ONLY empathizing to release ourselves from our mental prisons.
- Choosing to walk in FREEDOM everyday as we teach ourselves new behaviors and embracing new thoughts.

Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”