• The General Mental Health Forum is now a Read Only Forum. As we had two large areas making it difficult for many to find, we decided to combine the Mental Health & the Recovery sections of the forum into Mental Health & Recovery as a whole. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area.

    If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.

    If you have spiritual issues related to a mental health and recovery issue, please use the Recovery Related Spiritual Advice forum. This forum is designed to be like Christian Advice, only for recovery type of issues. Recovery being like a family in many ways, allows us to support one another together. May you be blessed today and each day.

    Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist

  • Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
  • We hope the site problems here are now solved, however, if you still have any issues, please start a ticket in Contact Us

Question

Tempura

Noob
Site Supporter
May 2, 2010
1,790
2,120
✟376,862.00
Country
Finland
Gender
Male
Faith
Lutheran
Marital Status
Single
Thank you tempura. You are a good person and I appreciate your kind words. I will try to remember your words, it's just that when I am in this same mindset, it's very difficult to see your wisdom, even though it makes sense. thank you for your prayers.

Thank you brother, but I'm not any better as a person than you or anyone else.

I know it's hard to see hope and reality, when one is looking at things through the lens of depression. Doesn't mean they aren't there. It took me quite a while to see it myself. But in my case it's good, I don't learn anything if I get something right away. If I get something immediately, I don't understand its value and I lose it just as fast as I got it. It was better for me to have to deal with my illness. I learned things. Every year that I was depressed, it taught me resilience and patience. Especially when I thought I had neither, then, unknowingly, I learned it the most. Patience and resilience comes as a side product, always. And once you've gotten out of the worst situation, no matter how long it might take, you are so much stronger than ever before.

God bless.
 
  • Like
Reactions: vinsight4u
Upvote 0