Giving up hope, a dead man’s curse
When we look at the dramatic cultural changes taking place in the world in recent years, it is easy to throw up your hands in defeat. Yet God does not want us to lose hope, because He is still in control. But giving up not only can have very real spiritual consequences but physical ones as well. According to an article by the Daily Mail, researchers at Portsmouth University in Portsmouth, England recently released a paper in a journal called Medical Hypothese referring to a very real medical condition called “Psychogenic death.” It is a condition also referred to “give-up-itis,” that described prisoners in the Korean war who while in prisons camps, simply gave up and were dead within a matter of the days. These prisoners would stop speaking, quit eating and once into this cycle could be dead within three days. The group lead by Dr. John Leach stated that the condition is very real and is not a form of suicide but rather a state of depression that leads to death. The research …
