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thewatchman:
If I can just interject a little of my personal experience and wisdom gained, I have found that when I go through these hard times, it is easy to get caught up in the hard times and not see God trying to speak to us through them. We have strongholds in our lives which need breaking and suffering is how God often deals with them to break our carnality down. If I may, when you pray, ask God to reveal to you what he is dealing with and how it got into your life and the wisdom to deal with it, particularly how to pray as with the mouth confession is made to salvation. I have learned some great things about myself including suffering through physical imfirmities and feeling like giving up my faith. When the stronghold is gone, then the fear has no dwelling place anymore. Otherwise, why go through the depression over and over with no gain? Just going around the mountain over and over again, being blinded by the depression. Hope it helps
Rhys 🕊:
--- Quote from: thewatchman on April 12, 2013, 05:07:42 AM ---If I can just interject a little of my personal experience and wisdom gained, I have found that when I go through these hard times, it is easy to get caught up in the hard times and not see God trying to speak to us through them. We have strongholds in our lives which need breaking and suffering is how God often deals with them to break our carnality down. If I may, when you pray, ask God to reveal to you what he is dealing with and how it got into your life and the wisdom to deal with it, particularly how to pray as with the mouth confession is made to salvation. I have learned some great things about myself including suffering through physical imfirmities and feeling like giving up my faith. When the stronghold is gone, then the fear has no dwelling place anymore. Otherwise, why go through the depression over and over with no gain? Just going around the mountain over and over again, being blinded by the depression. Hope it helps
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Well said. I've found that myself with the strongholds, not easy going through the suffering but necessary.
Not making light of your problems rito. I have my own struggles so did Paul:
2 Corinthians 11:23-31
23 Are they servants of Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24 Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. 26 I have traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not.[a] 27 I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm.
28 Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of my concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak without my feeling that weakness? Who is led astray, and I do not burn with anger?
30 If I must boast, I would rather boast about the things that show how weak I am.
Praying for you rito, it's not easy whatever we go through. Do you want to go through what Paul went through?
May God keep you in his warm and comforting embrace
Rhys ;)
Gina:
--- Quote from: Rito1980 on April 12, 2013, 04:14:51 AM ---well if i started watching conspiracy videos much earlier such as "anti depressants give brain damage" i wouldnt be in the situation that i am. and shorty if you think im a weirdo that real nice of you. And John its hard not to concentrate on myself when i have a neurological condition that makes me not sweat and i get migraines and dizziness during warm weather. i dont know how im goin to get past the summer. go ahead and make your sarcastic jokes now.
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That was an odd comment. I never said you were a weirdo. And you know which conspiracy videos I'm talking about. You don't want to be depressed, but then you'll watch things that would make anyone depressed. You see videos like, anti-depressants cause brain damage, and in your mind that completely voids any promises that you have from God. But at least you're talking to someone. So now you can't say that you have no one to talk to.
And furthermore, I find it hard to believe that the antidepressants gave you those neurological conditions. I'm sorry, but while I do believe they can be harmful, my sister was on anti-psychotics and anti-anxiety and anti-depressants for decades, and she drank pretty heavily too, and she came off the booze and most of the meds, and her brain works better than mine! She can remember things in minute detail. But not everyone's the same. I should clarify that my sister also tapered down the dosages of her meds, she didn't stop cold turkey. It's a fact that if you stop any psychiatric medication cold turkey you will experience neurological and emotional trauma. So, if you stopped your meds cold turkey, then it's possible you injured yourself by coming off of them that way. I don't suppose the videos you watched about anti-depressants causing brain damage mentioned that, did they? Still, that doesn't void the promises of God. He will still heal you. My sister is now like a brand new person. No depression, very little anxiety. The other thing that my sister would do was go around picking fights with people in the family and at work and when she'd get taken to task, she would get depressed (but really she was just feeling alone, and angry and guilty because that's not the way to handle things) and start drinking and "oh, I feel a panic attack coming on." I'm sure she did. If she was being honest with herself, she might have been able to avoid all that. We live, we learn.
Here's what MayoClinic says:
Definition
By Mayo Clinic staff
--- Quote ---Anhidrosis is the inability to sweat normally. When you don't perspire, your body can't cool itself, which can lead to overheating and sometimes to heatstroke — a potentially fatal condition.
Anhidrosis — sometimes called hypohidrosis — can be difficult to diagnose. Mild anhidrosis often goes unrecognized, and dozens of factors can cause the condition, including skin trauma and certain diseases and medications. You can inherit anhidrosis or develop it later in life.
Treatment of anhidrosis involves addressing the underlying cause, if one can be found.
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So if dozens (that's a lot) of factors can cause the problem, how can you be so sure that it was the medications? It could have been caused by the meds, not saying it wasn't, but do you know that for sure? Or are you just guessing?
You are carrying a lot of weight, though. Have you had your thyroid checked?
Deborah-Leigh:
Rito1980
It is okay to cry.
It is a blessing to feel.
Accept your experience with patience and peace.
Everything will turn out right, in the end. If it is not right, right now, it is not the end.
Arc
cjwood:
arc, thank you. your comment was the truth in this whole matter.
again you have spoken words of encouragement to soothe the soul of the downtrodden.
claudia
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