Visit Site But if you are struggling with depression, sometimes you just don’t feel like you want to continue living the life you’ve been given. You feel cheated. Unworthy. Unloved. Guilty. Angry. Useless. And you hurt physically, which surprises you because depression is supposed to be strictly an emotional or mental illness.
But often the worst thing about depression is the isolation. You feel isolated because either you are ashamed, frightened, or embarrassed to tell anyone how you are feeling. You don’t want them to look down at you. You don’t want them to think you are “crazy.”
And so you struggle alone. You wonder what’s wrong with you. You try to find out what the signs of depression are. You wonder what it’s like to get treatment for your depression. You may even think that depression treatment is frightening. You may know the cause of your depression, but then, again, you may not because everything in your life may seem “perfect” from the outside.
I know what it’s like. When I went through my worst period of depression, I thought that I was completely alone – and unique. And I was desperate to read a book about a woman like me – a woman who believed deeply in Christ but still felt suicidal – and what she went through as she recovered from depression.
I went from bookstore to bookstore in my community, looking for something to read – a true story of someone who had gone through major depression and who had survived, and perhaps, even thrived because of it. I wanted to know that I could be cured of depression. But this book simply was not to be found. I had to go through my experience feeling completely alone.
When it had passed – when the… Read more…
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