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Christian Depression and AnxietyChristian depression and anxiety can be a big obstacle if we do not understand God’s forgiveness. Welcome to our website. We hope that we can provide you with some theologically based answers to your depression or anxiety problem. We will look at this picture from a spiritual perspective. While the beginning causes of any depression or anxiety can be medical, environmental, or emotional in origin, they always spread to other areas of cause very rapidly. The reason for this is, as we experience depression or anxiety, we begin to behave differently, and the neglectful behaviors add to the cause. Deprivation of nourishment, exercise, sleep, or necessary social interaction adds to the causation and the condition worsens. In Christian depression anxiety, we examine the misunderstandings we often have regarding our proper walk with God. Oftentimes we can confuse living a Godly life with being a life without mistakes and failures. Gods can grow without making mistakes and failing; for they are gods, and that is, what gods do best is not make mistakes! We humans and mortals have no such high requirements. We are free to make as many mistakes as we need to learn our soul lessons. These costs of learning should never be a source for Christian depression and anxiety. Such unrealistically high expectations upon us can cause unhealthy guilt and shame. We must remember that we are here to grow, to learn, and by doing that, to serve. We are never here to live a life without failures, mistakes or not to grow. The only way to learn any of our soul lessons is to try to do things we are not presently capable of doing at all. That should never be a source for Christian depression and anxiety. That is why we are here, and failure and mistakes are a necessary part of that growth. God wishes us to be healthy, happy, and live in a prosperous manner by our own efforts and relationships. Every one of us has a life-path that will lead us across the resources to do exactly that, if we trust our hearts to lead us to those resources. You cannot be a failure if you have learned something from your mistakes. The only failures in life are those who never learn anything from their mistakes, and who keep hurting themselves and others, with the same life-damaging lifestyles. In Christian help anxiety and depression, we see that God never intends for our state of defeat to be a permanent condition, but only a temporary one to teach us something about ourselves. We learn that we as humans have personal soul boundaries, which we have a right to defend. We learn what a ‘justified agenda’ is, and why it is necessary for us to ‘hate the thing that hurt us.’ We must not give up anger to the point that we can no longer defend our boundaries from intrusion, or it will emotionally poison us. If we do not allow ourselves this option to defend our boundaries as needed, this will be the greatest cause of Christian depression and anxiety within us. We must not give up selfishness to the point that we can no longer defend our inner world from outside invasion, or it will poison our soul. We also talk about your local church congregation as a source of comfort and counsel for depression and anxiety. If you do not attend a church presently, use this need as a reason to seek out a local church. The benefit of joining a therapy group within a local church is the affordable cost. Many times the groups are free and it is a great place to develop deep long-term friendships. Remember the church needs you as much as you need it. You are beautiful and are as much a blessing to others as the church is to you! In Dealing with sexual past, we talk about looking at the relevance of that sexual past to the person and their life today. The sexual past has a reason. If the reason is a need the person may still have as an emotional issue, then that person must address that issue fully. If the issue is past, then that person should move on, for it is no longer part of the definition of them today. If the person involved has learned their lessons and have moved on to a higher level of life, then it is irrelevant, and we should forgive them. That also means that the person should forgive himself or herself as well. In the Christian world, self-forgiveness is a mandatory stage of soul growth for all, not the luxury privy to an elite few. Sexual indiscretions can be an indicator of unresolved anger and seeking to manifest power and control over another within a certain profile. It rarely indicates the sexual and gender tendencies of the offender, such as being gay, lesbian, or a pedophile.
In Dealing with Christian teenagers, we talk about teenagers are teenagers first, and Christians second, and we must remember that! The latest research shows that the teenage years are the time that they need you the adult more than ever. Proof of this is that divorces of parents affect a teenager more than younger siblings. The teenagers are learning to imitate you in how you conduct yourself. They are seeing you as a peer, not just as a parent or teacher. What you do with your relationships is exactly what they will do with theirs. If you hold your obligations to your employment or society in low regard, then your teenager will hold his obligations to you the parent, or you the school teacher in the same low regard, for they will imitate you. Be sure you are in the company of teenagers for the right reasons. If you are seeking to be a group leader to feel popular and feel like one of the gang, you are there for the wrong reasons. Teenagers are manipulators and they quickly will sense how to get what they want from you. In exchange, they will give you the approval you seek from them. However, this approval will come at a great price. They will learn not to have any respect for you, as you are using them, and their approval to get your needs met. You are not there to help them, and they will see it right away. There is much magic when dealing with Christian teenagers. All young people have the psychic ability to detect sincerity in your heart in your dealings with them. If you are there for the wrong reasons, they will feel uncomfortable after a while, and begin to shy away from you. Conversely, if you are there for the right reasons, they will pick that up quickly and warm up to you. If you are new to dealing with Christian teenagers, and are an inexperienced youth leader, do not be discouraged. Teenagers do not want a charismatic game show host personality to entertain them. They do want someone to take them seriously and show that they matter as young adults. What they want in short is authenticity. In the adult world, we live and relate to things as they are from an autonomous perspective. As adults, we see things from an independent view. We have found ourselves, and we do not need the acceptance of our peers for our feelings of self-worth, as teenagers do. Teenagers on the other hand, need to feel part of the group, until dating and marriage start to separate them from others in the natural course of individuation. Please consider our first in series book Overcoming Depression from Emotional Abuse/The Tools of Your Mind. In this book, we talk about the whole overview of our soul’s journey as we follow our heart’s dreams to our ultimate destiny. We also talk about issues of Christians, depression and anxiety, and shame as well. We answer many questions about selfishness, prosperity, psychotherapy, and finding our dreams and happiness. We also talk about the spiritual controls we have within to bring our good to us. Those controls are our Sincerity Switch, Spontaneity Switch, and lastly our Feelings and Dream Switch.
God bless you as you begin your new life today. Please tell us how you are doing in your search for answers, and to share your trials and victories with us! We hope this had been a help as you learn God's ways dealing with depression and stress, and new skills in living a better life in our fast changing world. Thanks for visiting. Shayne and Lori North More on This Subject
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