sbloemreflections: My Experience with Moderate Depression

Monday, March 11, 2019

My Experience with Moderate Depression

I am the Co founder of a 501(c) (3) nonprofit agency in the United States, which ministers in many different countries, including thosewho are being persecuted for their faith.

Counseling - I am an expert on counseling those who have mental illness, spiritual depression, and many other problems with those of mind and mood.

What about moderate depression?

I have suffered from endogenous (biological) depression for many years. Its intensity has ranged from moderate to severe. If you really want to know what depression is like, you should speak to those who have suffered from it. Here are some of the notes that I jotted down while being moderately depressed.

1. It is a kiss good bye to pleasure.
2. It is a shot of Novocain to my brain.
3. It is a broken mind, that does not work right.
4. It is like being in a dark, foggy mist that covers my brain.
5. It is to have heaviness in my heart.
6. My mind is dead.

7. I lack spontaneity of thought and speech.
8. I feel like I am in a depressive purgatory.
9. It is a great opportunity for growth and character.
10. It is a call for perseverance in the faith.
11. It is a riddle to be solved.
12. It is a link to suffering humanity.
13.It causes a preoccupied and quiet spouse.
14. It is a constant forcing of one's self to act and to help others.
15. It prepares me for comforting the people of God.

Some people believe that having moderate depression means that your
depression is not biological in its origins. While some of the above
characteristics may be true of spiritual and reactive depression, it differs from
it in that,it is a constant disturbance of the body, the intellect, the
will, and emotion.

What do we offer?

Seminars like Whispers in the Foyer, A Look at the Christian and Mental Illness.