{"id":1693,"date":"2013-02-03T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2013-02-01T07:08:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T12:08:34","slug":"depression-did-not-originate-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/02\/depression-did-not-originate-with-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Depression Did Not Originate with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work, in the break room, a pill box was laying next to the sink. Someone has been taking those pills. Then, Judith sprinted into the break room and with a relieved look on her face, picked up the pill box, said, \u201cThank goodness, my pill box is still here,\u201d and looking up at her co-worker, continued with, \u201c I have depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judith\u2019s apparent nobility at managing the fashionable condition of depression was, well, depressing. Most of us have felt sad and worthless. During those times, our thinking gets muddled and in general, life feels like a black hole. Oddly, Judith\u2019s therapy for her clinical depression includes pills that come with the side effects of muddled thinking and constipation.<\/p>\n<p>An increasing number of doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists are concluding that the way we think, act, react, and feel can be a powerful influence on our physical and mental health. This conclusion is not new. In Old Testament Biblical times, \u201cHezekiah repented of the pride of his heart,\u201d and life got better. To repent is to think and act different.<\/p>\n<p>However, thinking different isn\u2019t assuming positive thinking is an elixir, although optimism is better than pessimism. Thought is very powerful on the mind and body, but the key to healing is to know the thought of Truth, not the positive thoughts of human. Medically speaking, there is no universal standard of chemicals in the brain that can guarantee happiness for every human being; neither is there a set of human thoughts that can produce wellbeing scientifically. Religiously speaking, faith, focused on the scientific<a href=\"http:\/\/healingsciencetoday.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/04\/stress-cant-stop-us-from-sharing-peacefulness\/\"> sense of God<\/a>, benefits body and mind. The medicine of Truth can erase depression.<\/p>\n<p>Administer this alterative Truth with a faith or conviction in a spiritual reality: \u201cGod never made depression. Depression is not necessary.\u201d This truth understood can remove the mistake that people are bound to be depressed and our thoughts and actions can be grounded on the truth. God made simple joy. Then God made us to image that joy forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work, in the break room, a pill box was laying next to the sink. Someone has been taking those pills. 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