--- Title: Tweets on Psych Medication Subtitle: > Or: That time I went to town on Peter Leithart about psych medications. Date: 2015-07-22 08:34 Tags: [tweetstorm] ... Yesterday evening, I saw Peter Leithart ([\@PLeithart][leithart]) retweet this from the [\@\_Theopolis][theo] account: > Psych meds are a lobotomy in a bottle. -Rich Bledsoe
> [∞](https://twitter.com/_Theopolis/status/623671327447248896) July 21, 2015 21:50 [leithart]: https://twitter.com/PLeithart [theo]: https://twitter.com/_Theopolis I responded, because I'm a theologically conservative Christian with a high view of the value of spiritual work on our psyches, and therefore agree with much of the *intent* of this critique---but also a Christian with a robust anthropology (of the sort I would expect Leithart to have!) which undercuts *this* kind of response. Perhaps it is simply that I am more attuned to these things because my wife deals with clinical depression, but in any case this kind of thinking is *profoundly* destructive, and all-too common in the church. My response: > [\@\_Theopolis][theo] No. This is a horrifyingly misguided and indeed misanthropic way > of stating what may be a useful critique. [\@PLeithart][leithart]
> [∞](https://twitter.com/chriskrycho/status/623672572551561220) July 21, 2015 21:55 > [\@\_Theopolis][theo] It is one thing to say that we overmedicate—we do. It is another > to say that psych meds lobotomize us—they do not. [\@PLeithart][leithart]
> [∞](https://twitter.com/chriskrycho/status/623672684434599936) July 21, 2015 21:55 > [\@\_Theopolis][theo] To put it in these terms *at all* is to mistake at the most > fundamental level our embodied, fallen, human nature. [\@PLeithart][leithart]
> [∞](https://twitter.com/chriskrycho/status/623672770069680128) July 21, 2015 21:55 > [\@\_Theopolis][theo] We must say “No” to the captivity of self-medication *without* > rejecting the gift of medicine for broken bodies. [\@PLeithart][leithart]
> [∞](https://twitter.com/chriskrycho/status/623673129072762880) July 21, 2015 21:57 > [\@\_Theopolis][theo] And our bodies include our brains; we are not conveniently > separable entities, with psyches untrammeled from flesh. [\@PLeithart][leithart]
> [∞](https://twitter.com/chriskrycho/status/623673258840354816) July 21, 2015 21:57 > [\@\_Theopolis][theo] So by all means, proceed with a critique of cultural folly. > But do so with pastoral sensitivity to damaged sheep. [\@PLeithart][leithart]
> [∞](https://twitter.com/chriskrycho/status/623673467259518976) July 21, 2015 21:58