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I feel like Christianity has damaged me. I feel betrayed by god because I didn't become depressed until I felt abandoned when I prayed to him about doubting my salvation. He knew I would turn out this way. He knew that because I had no father I would struggle to believe he was there for me. He claims that he has good in our future. Well when I became depressed in 2011 the years ahead turned out to bring more pain. He turned his back on me and left me this way. Religion has damaged me. I'm so angry hurt and hopeless. Im giving up and never coming back. God didn't want me so why should I believe in anything the bible says? To make myself think he cares when he's just going to abandon me again?
I was made for pain, to feel alone. I hate life. I hate the father he gave me. I hate myself inside and out. I want to lay down and die. I can't live another day.

Everything hurts, Reaching my goals is so far off. I haven't found a physician assistant to shadow, I have no health experience to apply to pa school. I'm so sick of ppl on fb posting about god because they are doing fine and not depressed. I want to die. I don't want to fern think of god. I hate him. I hate the stupid man he calls a father. I hate myself. I just want to disappear. god wants me dead. But I can't find the courage to do it. I'm sick of people lecturing me they don't know what I'm going thru.
 
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How da heck would God kno what life wiuld b like? I think of it differently tjay He gives is life choices. n plenty of ppls have fathers who r/have been in pridon n it doesn't get them down, it just shows them a dif part of life.l n they emvrace thst their lives aren't perfect n bc of that it just makess them better ppl bx they wrnt up against thosr challenges n defeated them. i embrace the challengrs I've faved having absolutely no father at all in my lige "n woulda been a svreqed up one ay that) bc it makes me a better n syronger person. n no body's life is perfect, they prob have baggage 2 but just don't talk about/think bout it. nc u've dine all that u have despite it all, u should feel proud n good about urself bc look at what all u have done. in perspective, ur life is amazin. it's all ur ouook
 
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On the outside it looks amazing but I'm hopeless and damaged inside.

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You may be damaged, sweetie, but you are certainly not hopeless :hug:
I've turned away from God in the past because of what I saw as 'the way he made me' and the things he allowed to happen to me. But He never turned away from me - he was always there even in my darkest times.
I'm sorry you are feeling this way now, and I pray that it won't last long - but I know that whatever you feel, He loves you and he won't give up on you.
You are precious, and he is going to work out his plan for you - and it will be good!!
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You may be damaged, sweetie, but you are certainly not hopeless :hug:
I've turned away from God in the past because of what I saw as 'the way he made me' and the things he allowed to happen to me. But He never turned away from me - he was always there even in my darkest times.
I'm sorry you are feeling this way now, and I pray that it won't last long - but I know that whatever you feel, He loves you and he won't give up on you.
You are precious, and he is going to work out his plan for you - and it will be good!!
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Thanks :hug: but how can he workout anything when I've turned away. Every time I open myself up more pain comes in. I'm done. I don't believe in god anymore.
 
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You made it to today, even though you've been depressed before. You know a lot about endurance, and how to keep going, even when life doesn't make sense. That is strength.

I know what it's like to be depressed. May the God of all comfort be near you, to strengthen you, and give you peace. In Jesus' name, amen.

Amen to that
 
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I've given up trying. When I tried prayer it was like I couldn't fully express the pain. I'm done talking about the pain, life goes on and why should anyone care about the misery of someone else. Misery does love company I guess that's why I keep coming here. Thank you all for your prayers and support. I've given up on myself, I feel better not feeling anymore.
 
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Dear suffering sister what good is it to hate God, yourself or your neighbour? It is the opposite of what God requests from us. Please remember that love comforts and heals while misery tears down and brings the pit.

For as long as there is life there is hope for better to come. I know for certain that bad life will perish in the end, so good life can be again.

If you want to get better pursue love it is Him that you need.:hug:
 
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Why should I pursue someone that let me end up this way when I came to him for salvation? It's like he just sat back and watch my life spiral downward. I can't trust my prayers are just desperate pleas and nothing ever changes. God doesn't love me I was made for destruction and pain
 
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Why should I pursue someone that let me end up this way when I came to him for salvation? It's like he just sat back and watch my life spiral downward. I can't trust my prayers are just desperate pleas and nothing ever changes. God doesn't love me I was made for destruction and pain

No you are not made for destruction and pain, rather you are made for His glory.:amen:

When I doubted my faith and called out to Him in desperation because of the pain I couldn't hear Him either, doubt, anger, fear combined with the lies I believed about myself God and others made me deaf and blind towards God's loving help. I suffered deepest agony:o:o:o

However the Bible warns us that God doesn't help us when we doubt Him, only in faith can we experience Him and His goodness.:thumbsup:

Think about it this way. You are racing towards the dark calling out for help from the light. You first have to turn around and face the light before you can see what is going on and how to get out of your bind though.:doh:

Faith is a gift of God, and God gives faith to all those who ask this from Him.:amen:


When I was in the pit - I doubted Him, I raged at Him, I cursed Him, I swore at Him, but the pit just got deeper and all I wanted to do was die.:o:o:o

When I in faith began to call upon Him I began to experience improvements straight away. For as long as I called out in faith my depression improved, love grew, thankfulness followed, joy also came though it took some time before that grew back into my psyche.:clap:

The best part was that when I died to my unbelief and doubt, the hopelessness and despair died as well and so did my desire to commit suicide. Honest it is incredible what God does for those who have faith in Him.:angel:

pray for forgiveness for going the wrong way and pray for faith to set out in the right way:prayer:
 
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Im not trying to be offensive Jeshu I just feel hopelesss and skeptical about God

Yes that is okay, I understand how it is for you, I've been there myself, for many years even, I used to beg my wife for the right to kill myself, I do know how low depression can take us.:hug:

The truth is that for years Satan has loaded you with bad feelings towards God, yourself and towards others. Hopelessness, despair, hate, guilt, shame, anger/rage, loneliness, lovelessness, scepticism, unbelief, self-harm, doubt and fear are all feelings (spiritual realities) that take us away from God, cast us in the pit and destroy our good life.

Satan has done this so that you would hate God, yourself and others, depression is one of his most successful avenues to get people to embrace death without return. Especially when we hate God, who is the only one who can help us through the pain of depression and make us stronger than depression can bring to bear. If Satan can destroy our faith in God then he has got hold of us and can torture us at will. That fiend loves doing that! He loves hurting us.

It is for you to see the truth - a faithless life is worse than death - it hurts God, ourselves and our neighbour and there is no relief!

Yet God is love, so be honest with yourself how much love have you left over in your heart? How much of God's goodness is left over? No wonder you feel so bad you lost faith in Him.

I have told you this before and I will tell you this again - please fill your heart with His love for then good life will come - for love always brings good things. Love is the most powerful force that exists. With love you can beat the negative feelings that plague you. Faith in God can get you through!

It was God's love that made me stronger than depression, it was God's good life that made me dispose of all the pills I had saved to kill myself. It was faith in God that saved me from my agony. It was faith in God that lifted me out of the pit.

Faith in God can rescue you as well. Believe in God and in His goodness and let Him build you stronger than depression can bring to bear.

I love you to survive this terrible affliction.:hug:


(A prose I would like to share with you about all this.)

What Can I Say About Suffering

What can I say, about what have I learned from our Heavenly Father? I can see now that evil lies cause pain to be alive within human existence. I have watched how isolation, forces lies down into suffering souls - as The Wicked cut all ties with truthful love and our crushing depression generate its own misery in our agonising hell down there. I know that in the Pit all lies end up - dragging us down living dead. Yet why would I continue to let bad life be dominant in my inner world of awareness and not God's loving truth to rule my every moment?

I have learned that creeds, values and morals are rules upon rules ruling. Still wicked lies spread like maggots through my flesh, killing all goodness within me, because I'm imperfect! To just let it be and move on is best I learned about that. And so The Word of God spoken in love for God, self and neighbour, is The Voice to heed at all times.

I have experienced that time brings good and bad, up and down, far and wide for everyone. Yet the power of God's love, as even bad sin and great failings ruled me, couldn't subdue Jesus grace over me as His loving truth set me free to be myself - time and again.

I understand that anguish speaks to those experiencing life truly untrue and lovelessly - and that our Heavenly Father never wanted this to rule His kids. Indeed I know that my wretchedness longs for the demise of all my agony. So that misery may never rule my life again, no more Bad Life overshadowing my here and now, instead freedom for me. For in God's loving truth, even through much hurt, I can finally stay on top of things, my loveless lies to hand to Christ as God's Good Life grows within me in return.

I know now that loving truth is the only useful weapon against the forces of evil. Complete freedom for me if I heed God's love in truth to rule my daily life. So why would I foolishly keep letting malefic lies decide my future. Why not forgive, why leave truthful love? While I know that only God's good makes my life a worthwhile experience?

I have seen that life is genuinely worth living in honest loving togetherness. Where everyone who exists is esteemed because they are specially made. For our real value lays not in how much gain we can yield for others. But simply because all existence speaks of life's importance to be loved. The communion of Saints - true love loving people doing the loving - is very important therefore.

So I choose loving truthfulness to steer me through those terrible storms down here. For even through extraordinary agony and times of incredible much suffering, God's truth preserves my life. His loving goodness keeping me from falling. As I found that warm-heartedness is truly effective against the deadly chill of devil's breath.
 
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How can he punish someone for doubting? That's cruel I give up

if you stand before a great divide, with a raging fire behind you coming your way, and then you see a bridge going across the divide but you doubt that it will hold you, so you don't cross, will you not burn up?

It is cruel to doubt God's Word of truth, cruel to yourself for when you doubt Him how can He help you, your doubt keeps you away from Him!

God is not in doubt, but in faith in we can meet Him.:amen:

Please pray for faith in Him so you can escape the torture doubt brings you.

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God's Love is good and kind and gentle, and comforting!
God's Love knows the answers to your questions!
God's Love can heal all your afflictions!
In God's Love you withstand even the worst treatment!
God's Love is focussed on others not Himself!
God's Love is all forgiving and sows loving comfort in your heart!
God's Love keeps EVERYTHING together for He is very strong!
God's Love can accept even the worst of times and find comfort in The Truth, just read the Psalms!
God's Love for us is Jesus, For He knows us inside out, He died for our sins, He rose!
God's Love is The Truth! to be in Him means that you are safe, no matter what physical harm may befall you, you will be safe in Him, He will keep you. You are the apple of His eye!
God's Love throws must overboard - I love to - is born instead.
God's Love sets you free to suffer depression in dignity and with purpose, for you are fighting the lies and the power of darkness - the forces that seek to inflict depression's misery upon you.
God's love inside of us is a tender shoot, but it grows like the clappers and effects everything in your life for good!

Faith in a personal relationship with the Word, and you will meet up with Jesus


It is God's love that you want!:amen:
 
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