Something that I haven’t been keen on talking about in a broad and open way has been my battle with mental health issues. So often it’s been after the smoke has cleared and I’m back in motion of building and rebuilding things that I begin to talk about it. Things get torn down in the middle of whatever mental crisis I had going on and shame stays over way too long of a visit, so I prolong talking about it. I then would sprinkle it with ‘Jesus-talk’ and then also sanitize it so it wouldn’t be so much of the negative emotions attached to it when I spoke it up. I’ve done it so much to the point that this last time when I went through a deep depression…I couldn’t even be honest with myself about how bad it was actually getting.
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Gaining Ground Against Anxiety, Depression, and Every Day Battles
For much of my life, it felt as though I was at the mercy of whatever life wanted to dish out. Much of the time I viewed life as something that just happened to me. From age nine to twenty-seven, I struggled with depression and anxiety. As a result of many things that happened in my childhood, I transformed from a child that trusted easily to one that was skeptical by default. From skepticism stemmed the paranoia that others wanted to harm me, use me, violate me, etc. In my current awareness, I recognize that the unhealed pains of childhood kept me from always reaching out for help and also receiving help when I was in emotional and spiritual distress. I only began reaching out to others for help a few years ago.
Dear Dr. Robert Lang,
The diagnosis of having major depression came with a thrust and heaps of affliction on all fronts of my life. Just the night before, I spoke with my sister on the phone. Having given detail of the struggle I was enduring, I looked over a small bridge on Wabash Ave
Warrior Letters 