The bad news is antidepressants cause brain damage! The good news is you don’t need them to get better and I have proof!
The interesting thing is having a bipolar diagnosis and you are not ashamed to tell people about it, many open up about their struggle! I have many I will share on this blog! Most are followers of Christ that did not want anyone to know they went through clinical depression! Most did not take medication! Many had a loving support group of family and friends who helped them though! The truth is it is a pride thing! Christians should never be depressed! I have not found that in scripture anywhere! Some day I will share some Bible characters who would be diagnosed today! Lets start with John the Baptist!
I believe Charles Hadden Spurgeon would have a Bipolar Diagnosis! The following was written in the 1800’s before we had medication for our emotions! Notice the depression and mania! Does God use so called mental illness for his purposes? Are we changing Gods ultimate purpose by medicating our emotions?
"This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger
blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and
overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now
become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a
John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison".
"One Sabbath morning, I preached from the text, 'My God, My God, why
has Thou forsaken Me?' and though I did not say so, yet I preached my
own experience. I heard my own chains clank while I tried to preach to my
fellow-prisoners in the dark; but I could not tell why I was brought into such
an awful horror of darkness, for which I condemned myself. On the
following Monday evening, a man came to see me who bore all the marks
of despair upon his countenance. His hair seemed to stand up right, and
his eyes were ready to start from their sockets. He said to me, after a little
parleying, 'I never before, in my life, heard any man speak who seemed to
know my heart. Mine is a terrible case; but on Sunday morning you painted
me to the life, and preached as if you had been inside my soul.' By God's
grace I saved that man from suicide, and led him into gospel light and
liberty; but I know I could not have done it if I had not myself been confined
in the dungeon in which he lay. I tell you the story, brethren, because you
sometimes may not understand your own experience, and the perfect
people may condemn you for having it; but what know they of God's
servants? You and I have to suffer much for the sake of the people of our
charge ... You may be in Egyptian darkness, and you may wonder why
such a horror chills your marrow; but you may be altogether in the pursuit
of your calling, and be led of the Spirit to a position of sympathy with
desponding minds" ).
The interesting thing is having a bipolar diagnosis and you are not ashamed to tell people about it, many open up about their struggle! I have many I will share on this blog! Most are followers of Christ that did not want anyone to know they went through clinical depression! Most did not take medication! Many had a loving support group of family and friends who helped them though! The truth is it is a pride thing! Christians should never be depressed! I have not found that in scripture anywhere! Some day I will share some Bible characters who would be diagnosed today! Lets start with John the Baptist!
I believe Charles Hadden Spurgeon would have a Bipolar Diagnosis! The following was written in the 1800’s before we had medication for our emotions! Notice the depression and mania! Does God use so called mental illness for his purposes? Are we changing Gods ultimate purpose by medicating our emotions?
"This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger
blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and
overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now
become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a
John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison".
"One Sabbath morning, I preached from the text, 'My God, My God, why
has Thou forsaken Me?' and though I did not say so, yet I preached my
own experience. I heard my own chains clank while I tried to preach to my
fellow-prisoners in the dark; but I could not tell why I was brought into such
an awful horror of darkness, for which I condemned myself. On the
following Monday evening, a man came to see me who bore all the marks
of despair upon his countenance. His hair seemed to stand up right, and
his eyes were ready to start from their sockets. He said to me, after a little
parleying, 'I never before, in my life, heard any man speak who seemed to
know my heart. Mine is a terrible case; but on Sunday morning you painted
me to the life, and preached as if you had been inside my soul.' By God's
grace I saved that man from suicide, and led him into gospel light and
liberty; but I know I could not have done it if I had not myself been confined
in the dungeon in which he lay. I tell you the story, brethren, because you
sometimes may not understand your own experience, and the perfect
people may condemn you for having it; but what know they of God's
servants? You and I have to suffer much for the sake of the people of our
charge ... You may be in Egyptian darkness, and you may wonder why
such a horror chills your marrow; but you may be altogether in the pursuit
of your calling, and be led of the Spirit to a position of sympathy with
desponding minds" ).
