Can anyone tell me of some messages on depression?

[url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=4510&commentView=itemComments]Keys to Mental Health by David Wilkerson[/url]

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Danielle

I haven't listened to the message and I intend to do so. However, I am going to be the proverbial thorn in the side. What type of depression is it? Continious?

On a similiar note, I have been diagnosed with ocd. It comes and goes but has been very bad lately. One of my pastors told me to hand it to God and say that I give it to him and I have faith and I will be healed. His understanding to the situation I suffer was obviously lacking. Another one of my pastors is sympathetic. However, my point is that I have asked God to take it countless times but it hasn't gone as easy as 1 2 3. I believe God may be going to use me to help someone else. I have an imbalance of seretonin in my brain that causes a lot of this.

My example above isn't related directly, however... I am trying to encourage you to talk to God. He understands. The title of the download, "keys to mental health", makes me a bit dubious as if some people might think it is something you can just turn off. You may be his tool in this area one day. I used to, and sometimes still get depressed (just not often as focus is on more eternal things now, the severity isn't crippling like it used to be...). I am only 21 and I have had experience with this stuff, it runs through my family.

God Bless
Brother in Christ
Michael

What is OCD? How does it affect you? I am a little ignorant of this disorder.

I strongly recommend any one with a workable study vocabulary to read as many as these articles as possible and then apply God's Word on this issue.

This is a secular Site but Debunks modern pharma-psychology.
Psychiatrist, Dr. William Glasser's books can be gotten at the Library.

I switched from studying the 'norm' of Psychology to his 29 years ago and I can tell you, his principle is dead on if combined with the Word of God.
Takes a while to get his drift - especially if you've been already programmed to the usual psycho-babble out there. But try, it could save your life. After getting the hang of what he's saying, you can go on to the Normal Christian Life again. Guarenteed.
I don't ever recommend secular sites, but this is given to de-program us, from what secular psychology has fed us for all of these decades.
Just be open.

After one is deprogrammed from the other "theories" on depression, etc., then there are tons of Christian Sites I can give.


http://www.wglasser.com/articles.htm

Check out the link sites also.

LORD Bless!

I highly and heartily reccommend this message. It has blessed me much lately.

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patrick heaviside

I have dealt with depression and anxiety over the years. I would recommend Martin Lloyd Jone's "Spiritual Depression- It's Causes and Cures", John Piper's "When You Don't Desire God" and "When The Darkness Will Not Lift". These are books, not sermons, sorry.

Also would recommned [url=www.seegod.org/]Single Vision Ministries[/url] which i have refered to quite often in the past. (this lovely gentleman Gene Veal, went to be with the Lord so you cannot talk with him but can still order his materials)

Certain people are more proned to depression, but alot of it comes from the way we think and what we think about. Change your thinking, change your attitude and it can help tremendously. Drenching ourselves in the truth of God's word and refusing to believe the lies we are usually telling ourselves.

But still there is no fool proof answer. Many of the greatest of saints experienced depression- Spurgeon, William Cowper, David... We don't always know why. But God is able to provide what we need.

My prayers are with you.

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Chanin

Vsuarez: Ocd is obsessive compulsiveness. In my situation I have experienced anti-God thoughts, unwanted sexual thoughts (which disturb me because I try to live fully for him) and phobia of things not being clean, ie: germs. If I perceive it as being infected with germs - I need to clean it to move on. I obsess on infection and the cleaning is the compulsion.

I am on meds to help balance my seretonin levels and it helps. A lot of secular psychiatry is garbage. Freud for example. I see a psychiatrist because he helps me in regards to my meds to control anxiety and ocd, but some of my drift of my previous post was, sometimes during bad times pray and seek God. He may not take it away but he is there even if it doesn't feel like it at times. I was also trying to demonstrate that some mental illnesses such as mine can be a biological condition.

Michael

Hello, I am not an expert in this field. I suffer from melancholic moods from time to time and CFS. I am able to hold a full time job and feed a family with wife and 4 kids. For me depression is an agent that drives me into the arms of God. When these moods overcome me, it usually shows me that I am still attached to some things in the world. A man who is dead to the world cannot be sad and cannot be offended. Depression is a spiritual wilderness. You have left the Egypt of your old sinful life and you are on your way to the heavenly kingdom. You sometimes look back and whish you were in Egypt but you know that you cannot go back but have to move on. True joy comes from fellowship with the Lord - a joy that cannot be taken away and the world cannot offer.

When depression befalls me I cry out: "Lord, be my only joy! Shown your servant his error and restore the joy of salvation unto me. Hey you stubborn soul, come praise Him, rise on the wings of praise, may His spirit envelop me and show me the mysteries of the Godhead. Remove from me worldly sorrow that leads to death. Give me godly sorrow with leads me to repentance and health of my soul. Weeping lasts through the night but joy comes in the morning.

I believe many a psalmist battled depression. Feed on the Psalms, they have encouraged countless generations of saints. Where else can you expect remedy but through intense prayer and wrestling in the spirit? Jesus carried all the depression of this world from Getsemane to calvary. The weight of it pressed him on the ground and he sweated blood. He was forsaken and disowned by his own father and abandoned by his companions. He did it - for the joy that was ahead and the kingdom and the people that would be forever His!

Hope this helps
narrowpath

Every and ANY Sermon that's on this site is very very good and the more recommended the better.

I too have CFIDS and I fully understand what it must be like to work and support a family when you feel like you're dying. Much sympathy from me here on this, but please, I'm really asking from my heart here .... I've studied psych most of my life and since finding "Choice and Reality Therapy" .... not only does it de-bunk this nonsense of "chemically induced disorders" scientifically, but aligns with GOD's Word 100%.

I will post my first post again and tell you, not only have I studied this for this many years, but have been a guinea pig for these psych-babblers in the past also.

Please line up with Scripture what you're getting from these Counselors or Dr.s that are "treating" you.