Unfortunately for those who suffer, depression and anxiety go hand in
hand. Anxiety about your job, marriage, children and finances
causes sleepless nights, and stress in your body. Sleepless nights
and physical stress can cause you to fall into a depressed mood.
Severe anxiety attacks can cause extreme exhaustion. There is a
cycle to it that needs to be broken. It's difficult for doctors to
know which problem to tackle first; anxiety or depression. Before
you know it, you can be taking a pill to lift your mood, topped off with
a pill to bring you back down, followed up by a pill to help you sleep
at night. There is a better way!
I once had depression and anxiety so badly that I was mentally and
physically ill with various stress related illnesses. Now, I'm healed and pill free.
This healing process began when God literally called me up from
the bathroom floor, where I frequently went to cry, with the profound words, "Get Up".I responded and the journey he has taken me on since that
day brought me the strength first to endure, then the state of well
being I now resides in.
The healing did not come easily.There was work to be done.God took this particular "patient" all the way to
Africa to teach me the truth about Him.After such a remarkable journey, both literally and
figuratively, I must now proclaim, "A relationship with God is mind
altering enough, without pills."