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I'm sinking into a deep depression. I feel like my best friend who understands the Bible, doesn't understand me very well at times.

I need people to talk to.

Don't recommend crisis lines as 1, I'm not quite that bad off, and 2, I'm going to feel the situation out and seek help as needed.

I know that depression is a serious thing and I think I can spring back from this. But right now, I am having a hard time.
 

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I'm sinking into a deep depression. I feel like my best friend who understands the Bible, doesn't understand me very well at times.

I need people to talk to.

Don't recommend crisis lines as 1, I'm not quite that bad off, and 2, I'm going to feel the situation out and seek help as needed.

I know that depression is a serious thing and I think I can spring back from this. But right now, I am having a hard time.

Depression is a deceptive creature. Feelings in general lie, but depression attacks the brain first, and then tells it what to do to the body (sleep, dont/eat, dont/go out, etc.) In general, depression is a spiritual oppression, not so much your own fault.

Depression can also be a barometer of the spiritual environment: you may be absorbing the feelings of the toxicity around you as opposed to inside you. Maybe after hearing the 1000th news report about a child being killed you hit a breaking point and the flood gates of emotions once dampened begin to rush.

It is so deceptive that you may not actually be depressed because of the obvious - there may be a deeper issue that has decided to manifest and express itself through depression. So, before you talk to people, it is important you ask our Father what is going on.
 
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I'm sinking into a deep depression. I feel like my best friend who understands the Bible, doesn't understand me very well at times.

I need people to talk to.

Don't recommend crisis lines as 1, I'm not quite that bad off, and 2, I'm going to feel the situation out and seek help as needed.

I know that depression is a serious thing and I think I can spring back from this. But right now, I am having a hard time.

Crisis lines are a God send. You can be anonymous and there's a caring ear on the other end of the line to connect with.
 
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I'm sinking into a deep depression. I feel like my best friend who understands the Bible, doesn't understand me very well at times.

I need people to talk to.

Don't recommend crisis lines as 1, I'm not quite that bad off, and 2, I'm going to feel the situation out and seek help as needed.

I know that depression is a serious thing and I think I can spring back from this. But right now, I am having a hard time.
Praying for you. Praying Gods love comforts you.
 
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i hope you meant that you put a full stop behind your current misery and turned the page?

As someone with a depressive illness i know that loving god and neighbour is the way out of depression, however as a depressed person we have to accept the love of God for ourselves first for otherwise how can we love outside of ourselves when we have no love within to give out?

So please accept God's loving truth into your life no matter what you look like and go from there

Blessings and much love

A Way Out Of Depression

How can we have meaning if we don't love?
everything else is but a clinging cymbal,
a sounding gong!
...of no importance in the scheme of things,
a loving faith takes us Home to Him!
He who is love Himself!
Hide in His love!
..and love His children,
and all Creation too!
and find a way out,
of this hell hole we've been in.
His love the way out of depression.

 
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