Pastor Says, “There’s No Such Thing as PTSD.”

Here’s why he is wrong

Dan Foster
Backyard Church
Published in
7 min readMay 1, 2024

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“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.”

That’s the truth according to Pastor John MacArthur who describes an array of mental health conditions as “noble lies to basically give an excuse to medicate people.”

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Dan Foster
Backyard Church

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