How God Delivered Me from What the Doctor Diagnosed as Depression

God had blessed me with a wonderful husband, Tim, and two beautiful daughters . attempt to protect me from myself—I had expressed thoughts of suicide to my physician. The diagnosis came easily: major clinical depression complicated by . an exhausting existence in a dry, harsh territory and delivered to a new land.
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The most beautiful, personal, releasing, most loving relationship is with our Christ Lord. Thank you so much for sharing your testimonies! You are not the only one for sure… But yes! He loves you soooooooo much and will always be faithful to keep His Word and heal you. Thank you for reading! Lori, thank you so much for sharing. May He minister His blessings and encouragement and love to you all day long today, and show Himself to you as your Glory and the Lifter of your head. I know He loves you soooooooo much! Means more than you know! Thank you so much, Alexandria.

Jesus will help you through, and as you pray and present your requests to Him with thanksgiving, He will give you peace! May He comfort you and give you rest in His presence today as you seek Him. Thank you for this. I recently experienced the depression and anxiety, which has its roots in a stressful job. We are pressured to perform and compete with coworkers. I am not a competitive or assertive person. So as you can imagine, I am the odd ball. This job is not good for my health. I praying to GOD for a better job.

The realty is, I cannot find a job earning what I earn in my community. Thanks for your words of encouragement. Help my sister, Jesus. I will pray for you today, Melinda. May Daddy God protect you and keep you safe under His wings today. Thank you for your work and service to the Lord. Your articlcle came when it was greatly needed. I am encouraged and have been waiting many years for a break through in situations in my life.


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I wait on the Lord to order my steps and to change things as he will. Do please pray that I continue to trust in Him no matter how I feel hope drain from me at times. Your article came when it was greatly needed. He is fighting for you this very moment! I have a question, If you give your life to god, and your problems, depression, anxiety, why not also all the medication? Honestly I think medication makes things worse. I know it takes time for me to completely recover but i know God is with me all the time. May you also pray for me for my complete healing.

Thank you so much! Thanks for sharing, I been struggling with this and suddenlly your articule apearse in mi home page of pintres; thank you Lord for your answer, God bless you. Praising God for blessing you, Carmina! I pray the Holy Spirit would strengthen and encourage you today.

I have had anxiety for almost 20 years. The last three being the most intense. I feel like I was almost healed through prayer, fasting, worship, and reading the word. God told me that I was closer than I thought. I keep hearing that breakthrough is near, but then it never comes. I believe but Jesus help me with my unbelief. Please pray for me, a word of encouragement would be nice too. Thank you God Bless! The absolutely best and most helpful things I can encourage you to do are: Start with John and stay in the Gospels for a long time.

Ask the Holy Spirit to open His Word up to your understanding every time you open your Bible; and ask Him to help you obey what you read. Find a godly mentor and be totally transparent with them. These two keys will really make a big difference if you are not already doing them. I will certainly pray for you today. Thank you for reading my blog.

Have a wonderful day, and may our Comforter, the Holy Spirit, help you receive the love of Father God for you today. Thank you for time! I will definitely be in the word and I do have a few Godly mentors that I vent with. Did you just comment that? I felt like I read that before. What a trip…thank you for the encouragement!

Gods was probably putting the same thing on your heart so when you read it , it felt familiar! My heart will race and it scares me thinking I could have a heart attack which only makes it worse. I obsess and find praying and changing my thought processes is what works. I pray for all of you who are dealing with this and I pray that God will deliver you to peace and a loving trusting relationship with Him. I would like to put out there that you can help believing the devil.

All of us can. Go for it, sister. You can do this. Hi it was so encouraging to read about you being healed from anxiety. I would like to know if you meditated on these scriptures everyday as is from the bible. Also i am on medication but i slowly want to wean myself of it. Thanks for reply God bless. I am so encouarage by this.

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Wanting to tel you my story. How do i stay on this as i type it goes away. I sleep with my bible as god works through his word. This is actually true. While Praying, last night, God has amazingly healed my anxiety! My heart is full of peace. God is so good. His Word works every time!

We praise You, Lord Jesus, for Your faithfulness! Please pray for me that GOD will heal me from anxiety. Your transparency gives life and hope! After suddenly in christian home. The enemy is a liar! Now in 4 yrs no job only early pension. My desire for those same jobs seem to disappear.. My adult 3 girls now, see very little, live close.

Holding on to accusations, hurts. This journey now the Lord working in me, extreme new patience with suffering for the things I hope for, the anxiety for time to time..

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He is revealing himself.. It has been a loney walk and I declare breakthru from all fears! Perfecting so things and bring order in my life. I have slight torrettes syndrome like a thorn in my flesh.. I can only know he is preparing me for the great.. He is my vindicator, healer and recompense with honor for all the enemy has stolen and restoration of my relationship with my kids! The Love of God to reveal himself to me anew and flood my soul! Breaking off every disappointment as I cry out to God with Longing for deeper trust in Him! Thank you for your intercessory prayers for me..

You are a blessing to the body of Christ! Thank you for reading. I encourage you to continue taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. The enemy has no place in your life. May you have wisdom and discernment from Jesus today. Same anxiety depression one after another. Is strong during day time, let up evening some. Get tingling in body, not enough sleep. I need a healing soon. Hard to go on. Thanks for all your comments. I pray for a clear mind. Friend, I am sorry you are experiencing that right now.

I encourage you to pray without ceasing. Cast all your cares upon the Lord, for He will sustain you. Become a man of prayer, day in and day out. As this article discusses, prayer is the key to overcoming anxiety and depression. I will pray for you. Hi Sis, I hope you were able to commit yourself to prayer and meditation on the Word and hope our Father has healed your anxiety and depression.

I get really anxious and I have been feeling down. I had a wart growing up and I got it removed a few years ago. My self esteem is really low. Please pray for me. Praying for you and the devil wants us to feel we are doomed or hopeless but Jesus took all our infirmities and sins and imperfections and OCD and anxieties, everything to the Cross. He redeemed us and has set us free. We have to believe God, not our enemy. He is a liar and I pray you heal and arecompletely restored in Jesus name from the spirit of fear for God did not give us the spirit of fear but that of power , love, and a sound mind.

Thank you so much for this article. The doctors could not diagnose me of anything, but I suffer the dizziness, head pressures, nausea though the lord took this away for the most part , the random chest pains that most likely started my panic attacks and multiple E. I did over worry at one point. I prayed a lot and the lord has led me to realize I have anxiety and panic attacks.

I still struggle with all this from time to time and I work at a hospital so it just triggers my anxiety even if I feel calm. I need the energy to work at the hospital as well. Not to mention, this anxiety has caused me to become depressed and trouble concentrating. I have a feeling the devil is really trying not to let go. May all of you be healed in Jesus name Amen. But Please remember our Daddy God is always with us you can talk to him anytime and he will free you from those attacks.

And you will know how incredible our Daddy God is. He loves us so much. God bless you for sharing. I know that healing requires sacrifice, that is me surrendering completely to God and just releasing the control that I wish I had over my life. I totally understand what that feels like! Our Pastor recently said in a sermon that anxiety means we either need to stop doing something or start doing something! Please please pray for me. I have battled depression and anxiety for years.

I want so much for Jesus to heal me. Need prayer, over whelmed, meds not as effective, feel down anxious, like stuck, Praying hard. Hard to focus, health family issue thanks. Already on email list. Need prayer, depression Anxiety high, meds flat, hope praying, over whelmed family, health, thanks. Dix is d name.

Ihave been placed on a new desk at work. I think i am so far away from Daddy, but i know He loves me. Trying to be perfect is so so so draining. I want or need to overcome. Trying not to crawl into my shell. So much physical pain as well. I used to get up at 3am to pray.

I need to buck up. Keep me in prayer. I need all the prayer in the world right now. I feel so anxious. I feel like a failure, but I am a child of the most high God and I am not a failure because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I thank you for your story. I copied it for use hopefully on a regular basis. I too am an anxiety sufferer for more than 20 years.

My whole family suffers as well.

But I battled serious, life-altering, situational depression twice after that.

We endured 20 years of abuse. Maybe part of the reason for the anxiety. I feel we are cursed the family. That was in 4 years time. I feel sad for all of you. But, from what Jamie has written, I believe there is hope. I am going to try acupuncture as well. I also want to read and re-read this wonderful information. I believe I, we all can be healed of this debilitating disease. The devil is always trying to tell me different.

God Bless you all, and thanks, Jamie. Thank you for this post. I have always loved God. He has always been my rock. I do want God to give me another chance! I knew it was possible to be cured from anxiety through God. Thanks for the post! Today my old car broke down again. I am broke, and I can work without the car. I just need help with prayer. I feel like everytime I pray, it reverberates from the walls and hit the floor.

I really in desperate help for prayers…anything helps. There are people who suffer worst that what i am experiencing now. Thank you because you have given me the chance to draw me closer to you Lord. Now even if i am having panic attacks or nervousness, i will no longer worry because it is just a symptom of anxiety and it will come and go. I offer to you my life and I trust you my life Lord. It is a gift from GOD. I am sorry you have been going through a hard time, but please know that anxiety and fear are not from the Lord.

He did not give these things to you. HE gave you power, love, and a sound mind. And He wants you to be free from anxiety. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Papa God loves you very much and wants your mind and soul to be free. The problem for me is, its constant, it never goes away.

Doctors have tried me on 3 different medications that have not worked. One even put me in the hospital with a reaction. I had a similar episode that lasted 2 year around 12 years ago and I never thought I would have to go through that again. Nobody understands and doctors are still trying to find meds.

I finally said, I need to stay off the internet, theres nothing but negativity and no hope from people and I stumbled on this site. I need to keep my focus that God has a plan and within his time, he will heal me from this. Kristin, I am sorry tp hear about your suffering. Anxiety and depression are torment! With Gods perfect love, those issues can be gone! God has brought me from many symptoms! When we keep our mind on Him, He will keep us in perfect peace. Jesus said come to me, and that He will take our burdens and give us rest for our souls.

Our souls are our minds, thoughts and emotions. So no matter what we are dealing with, He will take it from us. He was wounded for us, it was by His stripes. Everything we need is in the resurrected Savior. Years passed but my depression remained. It was as though tiny bandages had been placed on a large, gaping wound; but it continued to bleed and would not heal. Finally, after nine years of medical care, my diagnosis was changed to refractory depression—depression that does not respond adequately to treatment.

It seemed that nearly a decade of my life had been wasted searching for a cure that did not come. Precious years with my husband and children had been lost forever. I deemed myself a failure as a wife, a mother, and a Christian. Now, it seemed, I was a failure as a psychiatric patient, as well. Refractory depression felt like a death sentence. My doctor had given me excellent medical treatment over the years, but I began to realize that while those in the mental health profession had done all they could to treat my body and mind by treating my brain chemistry and emotions , a key element of my being had never really been considered: Berys was unlike any counselor or therapist I had ever spoken to.

He revealed much to me. I learned that the roots of my depression were not biochemical or emotional, as I had assumed, but spiritual. I discovered many lies I had believed my entire life, which greatly affected my personality and influenced the way I had chosen to live. One of the most destructive untruths was that I was not good enough. As a young child I began to feel that I was somehow flawed, substandard, inferior. I lived my life trying to prevent others from discovering how worthless I really was. Lacking a healthy sense of my own value, I became dependent on the approval of those around me to make me feel good about myself, earning their praise through performing, people pleasing, and perfectionism.

It became a costly addiction. He told me that I was not the worthless person I had always believed I was. Sharon Fawcett was the handiwork of the Creator of the universe, made in His image. My work was of no consequence. My achievements did not matter. What I did or who I was did not determine my worth— whose I was did. I was a beloved child of the King! Believing this truth would transform me. No longer would I have to strive for the approval of others.

I was free to discover His purpose for my life. Prior to beginning Christian counseling, I had lost almost all hope of ever getting well and believed that my days on earth were nearing an end. God fulfilled His promise. Within three months of my initial meeting with the Christian counselor, my depression was gone. I never returned to the psychiatric ward, never had another electroconvulsive treatment, and I no longer needed medication, or the care of a psychiatrist.

Six years have passed and I remain free! At one time I believed depression was the end of life for me; I now see that it was the beginning of a new, glorious life. My despondency caused me to withdraw from the world around me and offered a rare opportunity to become intimately acquainted with myself. Desperation provided the motivation required to delve into areas of my being that had never been explored, and to make some vital changes within. Although depression is not something that I would have chosen for myself, I am now grateful for the blessings I reaped because of it: Through depression, I was rescued from a life lived for the wrong purpose, an exhausting existence in a dry, harsh territory and delivered to a new land, blooming with joy and watered by peace.

My perspective on suffering has changed. While unpleasant, I know that pain serves a purpose in the life of a Christian.

I am also keenly aware that while our difficulties may seem insurmountable at times, there is nothing that God cannot do, and nothing He cannot use for our good. God has made it possible for you to know Him and experience an amazing change in your own life. Discover how you can find peace with God. You can also send us your prayer requests. We use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

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Testimony Share | God Healed me from Anxiety and Depression

The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN is a global ministry committed to preparing the nations of the world for the coming of Jesus Christ through mass media. My Spiritual Battle for Deliverance. The Taboo Topic at Church. Helping Those Who Suffer. Longing for Peace For some reason, beyond my realm of understanding at that time, I had become overwhelmed with despondency.

Struggling to Survive My admission to the psychiatric ward was an attempt to protect me from myself—I had expressed thoughts of suicide to my physician. Life Marches On Depression is a strange illness. The Beginning of the End Years passed but my depression remained. Beautiful Truth I learned that the roots of my depression were not biochemical or emotional, as I had assumed, but spiritual.