Is depression a demonic evil spirit?

top10point5 said:

So, is depression a demonic evil spirit? Are those evil spirits chasing her the depression?

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No, it is a mental disorder that needs help. With want the government is doing now this mental disorder has gone up. My DW suffers from this and meds help

As someone who has suffered depression most of my life i know that the negativity of a depressive illness or bout can easily be used by satan and his henchmen. However to call depression a demonic spirit is very wrong, for it is an illness, but satan does use it to infiltrate us and even uses it to try and kill us.

i have been overcome by satan and then my depression was at its worst, i was suicidal for ages, however when Jesus taught me to fight my depressive thoughts with the truth of Scripture then my life improved enormously even though i still get very depressed at times.

So the truth is depression is a mental disorder that is used by satan to bring forth bad life, especially for the one who suffers from depression, but such bad life can be overcome with God's loving truth even if the depression stays.

The good thing is that with Jesus depression brings forth good things instead of just negative. Jesus has set my world upside down suffering from a depressive illness has become my blessing instead of my curse. For i would have never learned to understand and love Jesus as i have learned to do a depressed person.

In this way even my depression served for good in the end.

All glory to Jesus.

top10point5 said:

That was beautiful God bless. Any advice on how I can be supportive towards her? I don't if you've done this to people, but sometimes she's hot & cold and push/pulls away.

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Yes i have and do do that as well. When my depression is bad i have only one person i feel safe with and that is Jesus but only because He has proven to be totally trustworthy 24/7. My dear loving wife comes second, but at rare times she is so fed up with me withdrawing from her that she will say something painful or nasty, hurting me really bad for then i'm most vulnerable. It is hard being married to a depressed person.

As for her please don't give up yet, but rather pray for her and for her healing. What she needs is someone who understands her inner pain and knows how to love it away. If you can love her, which is what a depressed person lacks, even when she thinks she is unlovable, then you will gain entry in her deepest vulnerable self, befriend her there and you have a soul mate guaranteed.

My advise is to pursue her lovingly and see, with her permission, if you can arrange good Christian counselling. If she be willing to do that it can be invaluable and can prevent much pain and anguish.

God's Love and God's truth are the keys to fighting depression in a person. So yes love her true, even if she doesn't love you back in return, keep loving her anyway.

A depressed person is really good at giving you a cold shower so be prepared for that, love her anyway.

Peace

top10point5 said:

That was beautiful God bless. Any advice on how I can be supportive towards her? I don't if you've done this to people, but sometimes she's hot & cold and push/pulls away.

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My advice is patience, it is better to be miss than to be pushy. Try not feed her self pity, give her reasons instead for being happy. Dont be afraid to rebuke her for being negative and reinforce her good and healty thinking patterns. Remember you are her friend now, try acting like one.

top10point5 said:

Is depression a demonic evil spirit?

My lovely girlfriend of 2 years broke up with me out of nowhere due to her depression. She's had depressed phases while we've been dating, but never this bad, but at the same time she's never had so many stressors at once (school, job, and family issues)

Our relationship outside of the depression was great and helped us both come closer to God. She encouraged me to participate more in church and I encouraged her to pray more.

We decided to do a prayer fasting over the course of a month along with her family members. A tragic family event happened along with all her other stressors within a span of a week and she became depressed, distant, and ultimately told me she cannot handle a relationship and asked for a breakup, but wants to remain friends for now.

For a couple weeks, she was acting distant, and cold, but I knew it was due to the depression. The night before she broke up with me, i had a dream of her breaking up with me and in the dream although I saw it was her, it was like a demonic/evil version of her breaking up with me and also mocking me for doing so. Since our breakup I've had multiple dreams of her being chased by evil spirits, them capturing her, and they would mock me in each dream and laugh at my face.

I also had a dream where she cried to me and begged that I don't turn my back on her and to be patient with her.

In real life, she told me she wants to be friends for now and asked that I support her throughout her depression.

So, is depression a demonic evil spirit? Are those evil spirits chasing her the depression?

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Many men of God have faced depression (that the bible calls heaviness) in their walks. In the psalms David is like a rollercoaster ride, just emotionally up and down and twisting and turning, one moment he's in a soaring high just praising the Lord, the next he's desparately begging the Lord to forgive him and not leave him. Job wished he'd never been born. Elijah asked the Lord to end his life.

Ecclesiastes shows that Solomon was also depressed. He's constantly talking about all the things he did, and the wealth and wisdom he had and how it was all empty and meaningless and he'd die the same as a poor man and a fool.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

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In Isaiah 53:3 JESUS was described as a man of sorrows too.

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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Depression can even hit a man with no sin in his life.

Evil spirits can deceive people to make them depressed, but there's no reason to believe they are always part of depression.

top10point5 said:

I will put on my rain coat and be prepared for that cold shower because I have faith their will be better days, even if it's not us being a couple again, but I know God will help her heal, even if depression is a life long battle.

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That Jesus aid and equip you in this resolve.

top10point5 said:

Thank you yes, defintely patience is something I'm learning and trying to do my best. It's not easy and requires a lot of patience to deal with someone who's going through depression, but as you try to be there for them they push you away, but I have faith in God it will be worth it.


It sounds crazy, but every-time the thought of walking away or I feel irritated by her being cold, it's like a voice/intuition tells me to be there for her and to not turn my back on her no matter how hard it is.

Thank you and God bless.

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"I know it was the depression talking, but it hurt more hearing her say how I would be happier with someone else and that she doesn't want to bring me down, then it did when she said she wanted to break up. I love her so much that words can't even describe."

Rebuke her, tell her she has no right to decide what would make you happy. Dont complain either, never about your own feelings also. She has her problems to deal with you. Just be assertive and have confidence.


"Thank you yes, defintely patience is something I'm learning and trying to do my best. It's not easy and requires a lot of patience to deal with someone who's going through depression, but as you try to be there for them they push you away, but I have faith in God it will be worth it."

The more you want to control how close you want her to be, the more she will want to have space.

top10point5 said:

Thank you yes, defintely patience is something I'm learning and trying to do my best. It's not easy and requires a lot of patience to deal with someone who's going through depression, but as you try to be there for them they push you away, but I have faith in God it will be worth it.

I know it was the depression talking, but it hurt more hearing her say how I would be happier with someone else and that she doesn't want to bring me down, then it did when she said she wanted to break up. I love her so much that words can't even describe.

It sounds crazy, but every-time the thought of walking away or I feel irritated by her being cold, it's like a voice/intuition tells me to be there for her and to not turn my back on her no matter how hard it is.

Thank you and God bless.

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Just try to go out and have fun. Avoid her drama, rebuke her self pity and have fun. Overtime she will want to be back with, just give her a few months.

Did I mess up? This was supposed to reply to the OP. Sorry if any were offended, Great if it helped anyone.

Jeshu said: ↑
As someone who has suffered depression most of my life i know that the negativity of a depressive illness or bout can easily be used by satan and his henchmen. However to call depression a demonic spirit is very wrong, for it is an illness, but satan does use it to infiltrate us and even uses it to try and kill us.

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It is naive to attribute depression to a single cause. In my case, the origins came from a dysfunctional alcohol dominated family Quite vividly, I remember the first time I got drunk at my aunt's house. I was 8 years old, and every time one of the adults made a high ball, I would chug-a-lug the remnants of the shot glass

At 12, I was bar tending, and know how to short shot a guest to make him believe that he had "heavy drinks"

Nevertheless being taught the "sophisticated way to drink" I was given the role of black sheep. Nothing I did was ever right, so I got to the point of self-sabotaging every thing I tried to do in order to "fulfill my role as black sheep".

All that abuse created a rage in me that could assuaged only by murdering two people.

After Vietnam, I entered college and graduated, becoming a teacher. I was the first in this third generation of Scottish ancestry to graduate college. Later, I went to graduate school.

But those accomplishments did not lessen my rage. Rather than deal with it, I pushed it down

i have been overcome by satan and then my depression was at its worst, i was suicidal for ages, however when Jesus taught me to fight my depressive thoughts with the truth of Scripture then my life improved enormously even though i still get very depressed at times.

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I've been there, so your descriptions are not new. finally I got so "annoyed off "at this depression, which was really eating myself up, I got some medical help, psychological help, and read the Bible

We decided to do a prayer fasting over the course of a month along with her family members. A tragic family event happened along with all her other stressors within a span of a week and she became depressed, distant, and ultimately told me she cannot handle a relationship and asked for a breakup, but wants to remain friends for now.

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This paragraph has a feeling of co-dependency. That means that both of you trespassed onto some of each other's personal space in a well-intentioned attempt to help each other overcome their own depression. You really cannot do it because the ONLY one you can help is yourself

Therefore, as harsh as it may seem to do, letting her go, and having her discover the healing that works best for her is the only sane option you have. Her telling you that she is not able to have a relationship with you is a good thing. She wants her boundaries to remain in place.

You asked about demonic activity. For sure, any sex outside of marriage creates an open door for unclean spirits, and it must be closed with help from a spiritual leader. At one church I pastored, I had a woman with multiple personality disorder (now called "dissociative disorder" and in another in another state, I had a a member "love his daughters too much" When the oldest went to a university known more for its parties than academic achievement, he started to groom his 11 years-old daughter.

When Holy Spirit revealed that to me. I went down on a knee, and openly wretched. There is lots more to that story, and the church. One "power couple" in the church were KKK, but that is enough

If you like what I wrote, I recommend that you read, meditate, and memorize this passage:


Those are God's UNCONDITIONAL promises to you, Jehsu. He will never leave us nor forsake us, and that is why depression is so dangerous. Demons often lie to you saying that "you are not good enough" or "You will never get to heaven because of what you did."

Sometimes I still get depressed due to things in my past, and I have to do a "spiritual jujitsu" and I thank Satan for another opportunity to study how much God loves me, and that he will never forsake me. (Eventually, he does go away.)

BTW the art of jujitsu is leveraging the attack using the force of the enemy's attack against himself. Jesus or Holy Spirit can do that well, but you gotta ask each for their help.

top10point5 said:

So, is depression a demonic evil spirit? Are those evil spirits chasing her the depression?

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Suicide rises in urban areas, yet the suicide capital of the US is in Alaska. That has not received enough discussion. Studies have shown that in an urban area you can be woken up from deep sleep with a siren without even realizing it. People in cities can suffer from a lack of sleep even though they think they are getting plenty of sleep. The biggest month for suicide nationwide is July. Again, something that is not discussed enough. During July the night is significantly shorter than in the winter. In Alaska it can be a few hours.

Your girlfriend may be suffering from a lack of sleep with all the stresses and anxieties she has.

Step 1 -- she should use earplugs when she sleeps.

Step 2 -- No TV or computers or texting in the bedroom.

Step 3 -- At least 40 minutes of aerobic exercise every day, even if it is just a long walk.

Step 4 -- Often when I am restless and unable to sleep I find that drinking a powerful drink of vegetable juices will knock me out. I think if you are lacking key vitamins, minerals and other nutrients you don't sleep as deeply.

Let me add something else, there has been an alarming and very strong trend of increasing suicides in the last 20 years since 2000. Coincidentally this is about the time social media like Facebook and Youtube really took off. If nothing else this may account for people getting less sleep.