Deliverance from Depression

DEPRESSION IS REAL!!! I know because I suffered with it. About 10 years ago I was in a deep funk. It lasted about 3 1/2 months. Very few people knew. Even fewer knew how I was feeling. Most of the time I felt hopeless, despair, out if body, afraid. I found no pleasure in beautiful days or things that I ordinarily found funny were no longer. During that period I was preaching out of town and I would spend the whole day in the bed in my hotel room, getting up only to get dressed for church, preach that night and go back to my room to go back to bed, one night practically crying all the way back. You'd figure a man of my faith would just rebuke the devil, but depression is not that simple. It practically feeds on imagination, thoughts, past episodes in your life. I could'nt tell people how I felt. But I kept telling myself I was going to get better. I kept reassuring myself I would get better. I sought professional help. I mean a REAL doctor, not someone in church who "counsels" but a medical professional who prescribed medication. And thank God I eventually came out if it. I'm sharing this testimony because it may help some if you reading this. I understand what makes a person want to committe suicide, it's despair with no escape, and although I had not gotten that deep, I can understand. Being a preacher, teacher, successfull person, rich, poor... depression can affect anybody. Seek help. Help is available. Look out for you loved ones. I hope my testimony had helped you and although my period was only 3 1/2 months it was the longest 3 months of my life. Even now I can sometimes feel a slight reacurrence of it, but because I know what it us I deal with it a lot better. God Bless. Hope this helps