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look, feelings are not good or bad, they are simply there. everyone has them, everyone goes through them but if you feel you cannot handle these feelings by yourself, please get someone who can help you learn to handle them. trust me, i know it works from experience =]
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“If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.” -Pete Wentz I know it's obviously not the most reliable person to get a quote from, but I think it's true. I think everyone is at least a little bit depress, and that's alright. But you can't let this illness take you over. It is an illness, it alters the way you act, and the way you perceive things around you. It's okay to be sad, but you have to take control of depression. Talking to a therapist can be good, and really help a person out.
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Go out and do something that is actually sinful (but not illegal) and chances are you won't be depressed any more. If that doesn't work talk to a professional.
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I really really like this question, I think the same sometimes. If only I had the answer...
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No, Jesus sweat blood in the garden of Gethsemane because He was distressed. Also Isaiah 53:3 describes Jesus this way...He was despised and forsaken of men,A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;And like one from whom men hide their faceHe was despised, and we did not esteem Him. In terms of sinfulness, I would research the Bible more--you can see, especially in the Old Testament, that there was despair and a lot of it, and the people who despaired were loved by God...you should check it out
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Perhaps you're just a human person? We all get depressed: and if we stay there long enough I believe it can even alter our brain chemistry to the point where it becomes a medical condition (imho) Prayer is not a "proof" against depression. Read some of David's Psalms. I get the feeling he was pretty depressed hiding in that cave from King Saul. But even there, in the end, he chose to look up at least occasionally! Removing the labels for a moment, there is a good process of growth and freedom and a bad process of stagnation and enslavement. The bad process is self-perpetuating unless stopped by something more powerful. It takes the bad feelings and tries to use them as a source of condemnation -- a reason to feel even worse. The idea behind prayer is to short-circuit that process and escape the enslavement through relationship with something more powerful than the bad process. Life is life. It is good and it is bad. It is happy and it is sad. Relationship with God is about rising above the turmoil and living life not as a victim of the moment but as a victor in all things. Even in things that might get us down. Even when we might want to use the fact that we're down as a reason to get even more down on ourselves. But it's still a process. And ALL of us still get down in that bad process from time to time, even trapped and enslaved by it. Even when we KNOW there is freedom from it. And each time, hopefully we stay down for less time, and submit to the bad process less and less.
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Oh, please don't think like this. Rely on yourself and your ablility to seek help if you are truly depressed.
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it is almost hard to see this as a serious post in the world I live in... but in case it is... I am afraid for you - the illness will be incurable if you hold on to these frightening beliefs... and the old testament (as a whole) needs a fine filter before taking anything in it without ten tons of salt... (Footloose fave quotes pass through that filter)
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Is it sinful to have cancer? Is it sinful to have AIDS? (Don't answer that.) Is it sinful to have a cold? Is it sinful to have a headache? You are talking about illness. There are people who help people with illness. Pray if you want to. Get help in between praying. "Is it sinful to be depressed?" Snort. Harumph!
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