depression
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Printed Date: 01/17/2017 at 2:17pm
Topic: depression
Posted By: Jess Cousineau
Subject: depression
Date Posted: 02/14/2009 at 7:15pm
| Based on some things that my mental health nursing instructor and the course coordinator (who are both RNs) told me, and based on what the pastor prayed at a worship service the other night, I think I may have depression. I do cry in public a lot. Like, the worst, was at small group, I sat on the floor (because everyone was) and just started crying, feeling absotultely terrible and bad, and prayed for God to help because I was losing control, and then my friend Mandy said "get over here!" and I went and sat with her and she gave me a book that I attempted to read the back cover to stop from almost-crying (and I know the guys were watching me - they were sitting accross the room). And many other such occasions. Like I started crying in church when it was my 25th birthday, Mother's Day Sunday, that was a hard day (because I was turning 25 on Mothers Day, and still single, and never had a real boyfriend, and it was just so depressing). And once I went to the doctor because my neck hurt and made it so I couldn't sleep, and I couldn't speak to the doctor without crying, but I managed to communicate through it. What do you think about this type of situation, would it be right to go on antidepressant medication? It has been affecting my life because God tells me to study and I don't because I'm so depressed. He wants me to laugh more and to go out. Which I have been doing because He provided so well for me to have somewhere to go now like every night except thursday and friday. And I usually stay home on Saturday nights because my family stays up that night since its their night off. |
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Posted By: Jess Cousineau
Date Posted: 02/14/2009 at 7:21pm
| Should I just trust the Holy Spirit to heal me instead? |
Posted By: Mary Chretien
Date Posted: 02/14/2009 at 9:23pm
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Hi Jess, It's Mary again I would trust the Lord for your healing and I do believe like a lots of people they have taken medication for a short time and with the help of other to see Gods healing can do with out it.... Hey I watched the doctor / scientist Christian women talk about our brain and she was soooooo good I think you should take a look at her site her name is Dr. Caroline Leaf her website is https://www.drleaf.net/osc/index.php?osCsid=abe34e901dbe953b 9e079dc430706e60 - https://www.drleaf.net/osc/index.php?osCsid=abe34e901dbe953b 9e079dc430706e60 You can also look up some review on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Who-Switched-off-Brain-Contr olling/dp/0980122325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid= 1234674621&sr=1-1 - http://www.amazon.com/Who-Switched-off-Brain-Controlling/dp/ 0980122325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234674621 &sr=1-1 ------------- Blessings Mary CA. |
Posted By: Jess Cousineau
Date Posted: 02/15/2009 at 8:27am
Thanks 
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Posted By: debbiewhitehurs
Date Posted: 02/17/2009 at 6:50am
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I don't have any advice on whether or not you should take medication, but when I was reading your post I had the following thought Are you an intercessor? Often times I will "feel" the emotions of all the people around me, and it can be pretty horrible. I wonder why I am so depressed and why I can't stop crying. I sat on the front row at the last church I attended and had to keep my eyes closed during the altar call because I would start feeling all the pains and hurts of whoever I looked at. I am still learning how to pray and process this type of emotional information. The next time this happens to you, stop and ask the Lord if the feelings are yours or someone else's. I am often surprised at how often they aren't my own. I hope this helps. I have suffered from depression in many forms through my life and I know how hard it can be. Medication did not work for me, but I know of many people it did. That is a decision you will have to make with the Lord's guidance. |
Posted By: Jess Cousineau
Date Posted: 02/17/2009 at 9:03am
| !!! Yes, God told me I'm an intercessor. And I know exactly what you are talking about! When I'm around my mom, I feel her frustration/anger, and if she yells at me I actually feel tingling in my mouth! And when I interview people at clinical (I am on a metal health rotation) I can feel their emotion sometimes. And when I was so depressed at small group another lady told me she could feel how I felt. I did not know this was from being an intercessor! Wow. God is cool! |
Posted By: debbiewhitehurs
Date Posted: 02/17/2009 at 6:22pm
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If you are on a mental health rotation that could explain a lot. I would suggest praying and studying about what it means to be an intercessor. It can mean different things for different people. I would also suggest praying over your self before you do any mental health work. Ask for protection and discernment. There can be a lot of spiritual warfare in mental health work, even if all you do is interview the patients. And since it sounds like you are studying to be a nurse, this may be preaching to the choir, but make sure you are eating healthy. I am still working on this for me, but when I am successful at it the difference in how I feel is pretty radical. I have found that my mind is clearer and I am better able to cope with the emotional ups and downs of life and that it is easier to discern what feelings are actually mine. I was trying to think of a scripture to encourage you, and what I got was Matthew 6:33(amplified) 33But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. 34So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble. Peace Debbie |
Posted By: Jess Cousineau
Date Posted: 03/04/2009 at 9:05pm
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I had a real breakthrough on Sunday. I found myself praying and repented of depression. I found Phillipians 4:8 where it says to think on things that are pure, lovely, of good report, true, ect. and it occured to me that if I am consumed with thoughts of darkness/death/hell ect. then that is not obeying the scripture and therefore sin. SO I totally repented of it! Except tonite I am crying a bit, but it's for different reasons. I think God is working on my heart. I had such an awsome time at small group last night (Tue night). Me and a couple others were worshiping God after most people left and it was so awsome. Then tonite when I went a worship service at a church and I really missed the people from small group but the one girl who was there was always busy talking to other people. But God led me to get up from my seat (in the back corner by myself) and led me to find other people I knew there and sat with them |
Then at the end they showed the movie trailor for the movie Fireproof and that just got to my heart and made me cry, and then when I got home from missing my friends and that trailor is why I'm crying. So I think that is different from the past depression where I was just crying for bizzarre reasons and consumed with dark thoughts.Posted By: Pamela Helmick
Date Posted: 03/10/2009 at 8:28pm
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You need to find a Christian psychiatrist that can lead you into prayer and the scriptures as well as the right meds. It could be a chemical imbalance of the brain that is causing the depression and meds would fix this. God has always showed me that I have to do what I need to do in the natural and then he will do his part. For example if I want a job, I can't just pray for a job, I have to look for a job. God has provided for me though food stamps, welfare, SSI and a job. But I had to do my part. I had to go places, fill out papers ect. I could not wait for manna to fall from the sky. God is a practical God as well as a miracle working God. He also works in practical ways and mysterys ways. He can heal in many different ways, he can miraculiously heal or used doctors and medicine. Your part is to find a Christian psychiatrist. And still stand on God's word for a complete healing and delivarance from the depression. Then God will do his part. My daughter also suffers from depression and was cutting for a while. If I took all her meds away that would be a huge mistake. Get to the doctor and have him help you. Also find a good Christian therapist as well. Call your pastor asked him if he knows of a Christian psychiatrist and Christian therapist. ------------- Faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is love. |