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Testimony by Sharon Brown on Mental Health and Healthcare System Changes

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Sharon Brown testifies about implementing biblical teachings into the health system, particularly focusing on changes to the mental health system. She argues for updating access to care and reassessing mental health diagnoses, claiming many are faulty.

Advocates for replacing current mental health practices in schools with biblical teachings
Claims success in teaching young people in church settings, resulting in thriving individuals
Suggests that biblical teachings in churches lead to fewer instances of mental illness

Sharon Brown

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Hello.

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My name is Sharon Brown.

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Before I begin, remember Israel released the hostages.

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Let Yahweh's people go defend Israel.

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Okay.

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We are implementing the bible teachings into the health system.

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We are going to be changing the way the mental health system and the health system is run.

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The access should be updated the way people get care.

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Instead of saying that people are mentally ill, they need to look into the physical disabilities that they do have.

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That has been largely ignored and they have been diagnosed with all sorts of things that they are don't even have.

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They have been many newspapers and things to say that many of the diagnosis up to fifty percent or more have been faulty and the diagnosis are terminal and there are faulty diagnosis, so we need to change the mental health system.

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I was hired in someone wants me to teach their staff about mental health from a biblical perspective.

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It is a very well known hospital and we're gonna change everything.

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We're putting the bible back in school so that the mental health system that they have there will be removed from there and the biblical teachings that we have in the churches where the children thrive and succeed, when we teach them things about the mind, how to think, how to live, they are thriving.

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When I was teaching in church, I was a president of a political organization and the things that I was teaching the young people, I had people following the example that I set.

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There was a young lady who became president of her class.

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There were people thriving.

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There weren't people that were mentally ill.

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There was practically no one in the church that was mentally ill, so we're gonna institute biblical teachings

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