Christians with Depression
Signs of Depression and Hope in the Church
Depression Poems
Love, faith, belief by Brother Andy God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him Through God's love, Jesus is our way our truth and our life.. By God's might we are sustained and we breathe; the very breath which inspires us to faith, hope, love, wisdom, discernment, knowledge, and awe. Filled with His Spirit we prophesy, we heal, we speak angelic tongues and yet. Yet, there is darkness too! Those times when I have ceased to believe Love encompasses all the evil we have wrought. Belief is suspended in my own helplessness, my despair that Christ will never return, and if he does will he find faith on earth? This then is my revolving door through which I journey from light to darkness and back again; from belief to agnosticism through to ever stronger, deeper faith. , for only in knowing darkness can I understand the light.. Only by knowing the uncertainty of fear can I discover love once more! God has made all things and all things have their being in him. God is in the wars, the bombs the death camps, for he surrounds all our evil with hope of love. Any evil there is in this world comes spewing from our hearts for our fear and terror of one another will obliterate the earth - if we let it. There is no legless, slithering snake to blame for my mistakes, no devil that made me do it. There is just my darkness, the things in me I will not own. Those things of me I fear in others. Yet God is there waiting in the shadow behind my back and when I have embraced all of my own then I have embraced God and have known him in my darkness. And so I journey on! Brother Andrew holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Philosophy and among other things writes Inclusive Theology for Christians who are ostracised and fearful of Church due to the fears and tensions of this present world. Andrew is also a Poet and uses Poetry as a Tool to process his inner torments and to dialogue with fellow Christians, and others, who suffer with mania and or depression. At the age of 17 Andrew experienced, a serious Depression, though did not realize that the 6 or so weeks he spent as a barely functioning person was in fact just that. This first time the depression had a real time cause, fear of his HSC results. Andrew was later to be diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder as the result of temporal lobe damage caused by uncontrollable epilepsy. Andrew became a ‘Born Again’ Christian as a Youth in the Baptist Church and, until fairly recently has been perplexed that Faith in God does not preclude mental Illness or Anxiety. In his early 40’s Andrew began to face his inner demons and to experience Persecution Mania with both visual and auditory hallucinations. From here on in, Andrew’s Bi-polar incidents are mainly the result of chemical reactions in his brain caused by the Brain quietening brought on by AED’s (Anti Epileptic Drugs), though these drugs are antipsychotics by nature they do not tame his mental madness. Now, at the age of 54 Br Andrew continues to battle, this time, with unipolar depression and to write more Essays and Poetry to assist himself and others to live with and embrace mental illnesses. Br Andrew also has his own website at rev-andrew.com Life After Antidepressants Christians With Depression Post Partum Depression Depression And Sexuality Wp Blog Header Giving Up Antidepressants Wp Settings Will I Ever See Daylight Again Overcoming Depression Wp Activate Wp Login Wp Config Wp Comments Post Wp Load Wp Config Sample Wp Cron Wp Trackback The Loneliness Of Depression Depressed In Church Wp Links Opml Getting Through Depression Manic Depression Wp Signup Xmlrpc Wp Mail Depression And Suicide |
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