no matter what the misinformed say, you can choose to mental illness go away....

Its not good to give advice in things that we have no experience in. Some people often think mental illness is demonic and give advice in how to deal with it, but if it is demonic then its just the most obvious form of demonic activity. Some people who have no mental illness are being influenced by demonic activity as well and they don't even know it, yet they judge others as if they themselves are pure and faultless.. I could give examples but i wont, in order to avoid debate.

I don't claim mental illness is or is not demonic, but i know that there is much hope in following Christ. Christ gives me strength to endure the hurt that i sometimes feel inside which act like triggers for depression and other things too. I can wait on the Lord in faith and then be strengthened, instead of allowing depression, anxiety, anger and fear to pull me into its vicious circle and trap me there. Not that i dont feel those things, but that i can avoid being its prisoner if i just wait on the Lord and endure the thing that tries to trigger my downfall. This is actually new to me. I have long followed the scriptures that teach us to wait on the Lord in times of hardship and even depression, but it took me a while to actually learn how to do this. So the application is new to me although the knowledge is not. I hope to keep going in this new direction. I hope to keep fighting the fight of faith too, and to put on the armor of light (which to me is love) and to live by the strength of Christ, and the hope that he promises us..



Psalm 42:11 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

Psalm 37:7 Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil


Psalm 123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.


Psalm 27:14 Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 25:5 Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.

Psalm 39:7 “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.

I do agree with the posts. In my case I have struggled with bipolar which encompasses all of the above and then some. I stay close to the Lord as in never giving up on
Him. In my eexperience I do need medication. When in a bp state of mind I can't really even study the Bible well. I see my condition as any other physical disease would be and great it accordingly. People don't really understand and I've pretty much given up trying to explain. Those shoes others can't walk in, they don't know what the struggle is lime and I don't expect them to.

ABE: oops, forgot this was Christians only.

There's a real easy way to make mental illness go away, trust that what you've been given is from God and nurture it with love, over time the curse grows into a blessing, something you can do that no one else can.

just trust.

though it's not that easy, I think I had to suffer for over a decade due to a lack of support. But there is a hidden potential, and because it is different it is shunned, and because it is shunned it grows in the premise of self loathing instead of love .. and of course it looks like an illness. Perhaps if mental health care facilitated a process like that, the world would never be the same. and in a good way.

sometimes this, sometimes that. it becomes hard to judge a thing when you can't see the total picture. whatever you need is what you should have, but what do you need? love is obviously the simple answer. union/wholeness/completion is what everyone craves, which is why I find it so strange that people seek after other things besides such... tis the sad story of the world. but the actions of the world is still that seeking for that which they lost. we try to find union and goodness in whatever ways we possibly can (according to our spiritual condition). why must we toil in vanity so long? what we want is what we should have and cursed be anything trying to hold us back from what we most deeply and genuinely desire.

sadly the multiplicity and alienation of separation of the world, the conditions of necessity, and of the weakness of the flesh, and of creaturely existence makes this world much more of an extreme experience than it would otherwise be. thank God that even darkness can be a light.

So I guess I'll go tell my demented grandma that she can choose to remember things.

TravelerFarAwayFromHome said:

and it is NOT cowardly to suffer or seek help

I came across this twitter by Zelda William, Robin William's daughter.

sometimes I think people, including Christians, who never have to deal with mental health issues, can be very judgemental and hurtful

they think that depression is something that can be "willed" away through positive thinking, and love to give this type of easy advice.

and if the person is unable to "willed" it away, they turn nasty and act like a head mistress from boarding school from the 1920's, turn on the person and accuse them of not trying hard enough, not willing to "help themselves"

I think sometimes the important thing you can do for a person is to 'be' there for them, instead constantly trying to give uninformed and easy advice\

advice is cheap, but actually being there sometime is hard, it takes time and effort.

but that is people who are struggling really need....

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Intellectual laziness has always been around us. It, to me is an unnecessary and undesirable mindset that traps both the thinker and those thought about in the prison of ignorance.

Our country has suffered greatly because of our lack of concern for those who are afflicted with such things. people talk about gun violence all the time as if the instrument used is the issue, when we are the issue for not demanding our government take better care of these people. I think it is shameful that so many are not selfless enough to risk loosing a little of our tax dollars to fund institutions to care for these people, instead of pointing their fingers at an object and calling it evil.

We are the evil and greed is our weapon we use against those who we consider inadequate or bothersome.

People call this a Christian country and we pride ourselve in proclaiming it too other. We have "In God we trust" on our currency to make us feel like we care, but what we do with that money is a greater testimony to us than our proclimations ever were.