Winning Your Unseen Battles

I agree with a lot of what the writer is saying. We are definately in a daily unseen war with the enemy. I was clinically depressed for 6 years, many prescription medications and all. I came back to the Lord and fought the mental illness on my knees. I was not healed overnight, the way I had hoped....but over time, the Lord did heal my depression. He renewed my mind and changed me from the inside out. I agree that medication is sometimes necessary and thank God for it. But don't stop there. Keep fighting the good fight and win the race! Win the battle against the enemy. Jesus came that we could have life and have it to the full. He carried ALL our sickness and disease with Him to the cross and He is a miracle working God.

Obviously one the posters here does not have any understanding of true mental illness. I am diagnosed with Bi-Polar disorder. If it wasn't for God empowering drug manufactures and physicians, I would never have been able to come back to Lord God. Due, in no small part to the correct medications clearing my mind, I became a born again Christian 10 months ago. I thank God everyday for providing me with this help.

I suffer from PTSD, and I am a Christian. All the prayers and encouraging words from family and friends did not help the deep depression I was falling into. I even went as far as calling the elders to lay their anointed hands on me in prayer, to no avail. I believe that God uses people like me to advocate the advances of modern medicine in their use for mental health issues. The fight is real, the struggle is real, the issues are real. Without medication, I was very suicidal even though I know that suicide is a sin, it did not stop the real battle I faced daily to stay alive. The enemy is busy and he will attack any where he can. In order to stay one step ahead, we need serenity and for people like me, that serenity is only achieved through prayer and medication
Mrs Kevilyn DeArmond-Allen

"Christians complain of depression and thoughts of suicide, so we medicate them with our latest drugs."

I don't believe that using drugs to treat depression and suicide is a Godly practice. You just said two lines above that drug abuse among children is a bad thing, and now you are advising that we treat depression with drugs?

There is a real problem with a society that thinks that drugs will solve mental problems rooted in lifestyle. I believe that first we should sympathize (mourn with those who mourn), then move to love (those who need love first), then we need to ask what is wrong, listen and give Christian advice. And above all we should pray for those who are mentally exhausted and sick.