What does the Bible say about helping people with mental illness?

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• Isaiah 41:10

  Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

• 2 Timothy 1:7

  For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

• 1 Peter 5:7

  casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

• Philippians 4:6-7

  [6] In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. [7] And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

• Proverbs 12:25

  Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, But a kind word makes it glad.

• 1 Timothy 5:16

  If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

• James 1:27

  Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

• Matthew 11:28

  "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

• Matthew 4:24

  The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

• Luke 8:26-39

  [26] They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. [27] When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs. [28] When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!" [29] For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert. [30] Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him. [31] They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss. [32] Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them. [33] The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned. [34] When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country. [35] People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. [36] Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed. [37] All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned. [38] But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, [39] "Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

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