John MacArthur Steps Over a Line

John MacArthur, the well-known pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, recently caused a stir by publicly saying the term “mental illness” is a fiction used to sell psychiatric medication. According to The Christian Post, MacArthur specifically cited the psychiatric diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), all of which are considered mental illnesses by the American Psychiatric and American Psychological Associations.