Read What Others Have Shared
(December 1998)
There Is Hope In Knowing That You Are Not Alone
December 17, 1998
From: Barbara Rettie
E-mail : bre1003832@aol.com
last november in 1997 i was severly depresssed and wanted to give up on life. but thanks be to God for my daughter in law Monique. she took it upon herself to use tough love on me. I signed myself in to summitt ridge and was realeased the day before thanksgiving. I took my prayer book with me and even though severly depressed i prayed to jesus everyday.thanks be to GOD I am here and walk holding the hands of Jesus everyday and praise His name everyday. I thanks our dear Lord for everyday HE gives me on earth and use it to the fullest.i have to take prozac for the rest of my life but if it helps me thank you JESUS.
December 20, 1998
From: Amy
E-mail : brownae@tiac.net
Thanks so much to Hopeinsight for bringing this resource to the depressed members of the Christian community. Just finding the Web site lifted my mood.
I've been depressed for years and it has affected my ability to make and maintain friendships. Fortunately God has brought me some wonderful friends, especially in the last two years since my return to the Church. I am unmarried and doubt for many reasons that I can ever build a happy life with a loving husband. I've tried a few times too often.
But I still get depressed -- feelings of self-hatred, doom, and futility -- and I find everything, including prayer, emotionally empty. I do not know what joy is, so I don't feel truly Christian. At least at times I can find peace and solace through prayer.
Medication makes a difference but it's by no means a complete solution. And prayer certainly makes a difference too, but God hasn't promised us a cakewalk here on earth. As much as I can, I try to remember the rejection and pain that Christ and his Family suffered here on earth. I don't know what purpose the depression serves in my life, whether it is "the kiss of Christ" as suffering is said to be, or whether it is an attack by the evil one. I simply don't know, and I doubt that I will until I die and am hopefully reunited with Christ.
If anyone wants to e-mail me, please do so. Getting and responding to e-mail helps lift my spirits and hopefully those of the other person too.