![]() ![]() I battled suicidal thoughts again, which God took away when a friend prayed for me. I didn’t understand why God didn’t fix things right away. When the situation started in 2008, my hopes for quick resolution drained out month by month … and I felt like all my hope for our future was draining away too. I won’t go into detail about the background (you can read about what happened to us here and here), but suffice it to say that it was horrible. But then depression hit again over a financial crisis my husband and I went through. It was horrible.īut thanks be to God, that depression ended in one moment when I got a new job in November 2007 … a job I still have, and enjoy, today. I would have panic attacks at work so bad that I couldn’t breathe.After work, I would sit on my sofa at home for hours and just stare into space, usually crying.It was really horrible.īy the last couple of years of that job, I was really depressed, I got to the point where … The job was emotionally draining, and I was subjected to abuse from my customers all day every day at work–being cursed at, insulted, accused of all sorts of false things, and more. For the first couple of years, my inspiration to succeed and climb the corporate ladder overrode the difficulty of the job, and I was okay. But after the first couple of years, the situation overwhelmed me. The first bout of situational depression–depression that was due to a horrible situation I was in, not a chronic state–happened because of a job I was in.įrom 2002-2007, I worked in a professional job that wasn’t a good fit for me. But I battled serious, life-altering, situational depression twice after that. And I began to listen to good, solid teaching of the Word–especially from Joyce Meyer–and the Word took root in me, lifted me up, and changed me. When I gave my heart to Jesus, I had hope all of a sudden. I didn’t think that things could ever get better.Īfter I met Jesus, the chronic anxiety and depression went away. I felt hopeless and I even battled suicidal thoughts. My story:īefore I gave my life to Jesus at age 21, I was chronically anxious and depressed. ![]() I’m going to be very transparent with you today about my experience with anxiety and depression … and about God’s cure for both.
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