PROVO, Utah — Five years ago, Carrie M. Wrigley was seeing Mormon patients with largely imaginary fears.Today, her clients at LDS Social Services are dealing with real demons: loss of job, loss of home or loss of a loved one.\"I've seen changes in my clientele, in their needs, the kind of challenges they face,\" Wrigley said recently at Campus Education Week. \"We saw a lot of neurosis, people struggling with imagined fears. Now they're dealing with realistic adversity, very real genuine challenges.\"\"God warned us,\" Wrigley said. \"He told us what to expect: wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, a heaving sea, scourges, love waxing cold, pollutions, iniquity abounding and hearts failing in fear. We now live in a world that's scary. We're seeing an absolute escalation of fear.\"We are literally seeing the stormy weather on the earth.\"But the Lord has not left the world comfortless, she said. \"God is aware. He knows our troubles.\"Wrigley said many clients are angry with God for giving them more than they can handle when they believe that, because of 1 Corinthians 10:13, they've been promised that would never happen.\"He broke his promise,\" many tell Wrigley.\"It is always sweet to learn the whole scripture,\" she said, \"which goes on to say 'but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may bear it.'\"She cited David and Goliath, the parting of the Red Sea and Christ's Gethsemane as scriptural examples.\"I would like to suggest that good mental health is being able to bear it, whatever it is,\" Wrigley said.And since things are not going to get any easier, Wrigley said members of the church need to know how to bear it. She offered three principles to help accomplish this.The first principle is to apply the Word of Wisdom to the mind by filling it with positive input. Turn off the bad news; read good books and scripture.The second principle is to choose a lifestyle of creativity — not consumption. \"Creating helps us heal, stay healthy,\" Wrigley said. \"Create a memory, a relationship, a home.\"The third principle is to emphasize positives and keep a proper perspective. A pebble held up to the eye is large but becomes tiny when viewed next to a mountain, she said.\"Hope is having an absolutely realistic assessment of the situation and deciding to do something about it,\" she said


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