tonight
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Thread Topic: tonight
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I really sorry to hear that. How'd it start?
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Welll when younger I was on A medication called vivance for my adhd and they said clinical depression was a side effect.
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The depression is a deep pain though, right? Enough to make you suicidal? I used to be on medication when I was younger for anxiety, but I got sick of it and stopped taking it. The depression was still there.
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Yeah but i've off my adhd meds for years
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so i don't see why this happens
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I mean, I know why it happens. The things of this world don't satisfy us. We're made for more than the empty things the world tells us to go for. The big message of psychology is "do whatever makes you happy", but that's just an empty encouragement that doesn't actually help people.
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your right.
I hear that phrase not all understand depression -
*i hear that phrase a lot
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I know, the sad thing is most people's opinion of depression tends to either be "stop whining and suck it up" or "everything will be okay if it's not alright it's not the end!". They can be totally well meaning in their intentions, but depression isn't something that gets healed with shallow answers. It's like putting a band aid on a gushing wound.
I know I may sound like I'm being preachy on here when I talk about my experience with God, but the thing is I had to go through a painful process of recognizing that life is more than just physical things. Doing things that physically feel good only satisfy the flesh, and they're temporary. When I started seeing there's more to life than just my body, I realized that we are indeed spiritual. So I needed something permanent, something solid, and I only found that in Christ.
When I was a teenager I was an agnostic. I wanted to live my life my own way but I still was curious of other beliefs. Everything I turned to left me empty, but Christianity is different. God has moral standards, and the breaking of those standards is serious, but He desires to see us get healed and back to truth. When I realized I couldn't be "good enough" in my own strength but that God desires more for me than to just an empty short life, I decided to trust Him and surrender my life to Him.
And He hasn't failed to show that He's real. After this happened a peace has come into my soul and I longer feel like I'm burning up inside. That depression was literally an earthly taste of hell, and it's been a year since I was freed from it.
I don't know everyone on here now, but I do know that everyone here matters, everyone here is valuable, and everyone can be healed of whatever depressions, anxieties, and issues they have. It doesn't mean that life won't still be a struggle, but there is a night and day difference between depression and peace. When the internal struggle is gone, and we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, life is worth living.
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