All dis-ease comes from sin and a lack of an connection to God.
Yes depression is caused because things in life become to grievous to handle. If you know God those issues would become meaningless because you trust with your whole heart in him to take care of it all for you.
God bless you.
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And assholes like you are the reason I was suicidal when I was a teenage Christian girl. Assholes like you are the reason several of my relatives told me I needed to avoid the things that really helped me. Assholes like you KILL, and I hope the original asker treats your answer with all due respect, which is none. Fuck yourself with a chainsaw and die in a fire, you son of a bitch!
How do you explain the many miserable bastards on RR and the like? "Oh Lord, I hate this sinful world. Please, Jesus, come and take me away..." Sounds like clinical depression to me.
Are you a psychologist? No? Then shut your mouth. I was diagnosed with depression when I was 10 or 11. I was a Christian, and being 10 or 11, I really didn't have more than I could handle. I just had a chemical imbalance that needed a little medication and a lot of understanding. God provided neither.
In the immortal words of Sean Connery:
"Boy, you might be legally retarded..."
As an atheist and a young man who is working left and right to beat his severe depression (and I might add, without the usage of drugs), all I have to say is: please remove yourself from this mortal coil.
I have no idea how it came about; though I have several hypotheses. None of these involve "sin" as "sin" is a completely human construction designed to harness public shame against certain actions done that the powers-that-be don't personally approve of.
Yes, tell a person who doubts his own self-worth to join a faith where he's told that he's dirty and sinful, that he doesn't matter to God, that this life is irrelevant, and that the only thing that matters is what happens once he's shuffled off this mortal coil. What could possibly go wrong?
I had a friend in high school who was a devout Christian. Even though she was so depressed she could barely get out of bed and was a frequent cutter, she waited years before seeking treatment because she thought she could just 'give it up to God' as they so often encourage and get better.
Finally she decided to say 'God isn't working fast enough' and got on meds. Her life immediately improved.
On her behalf, I say, fuck you.
Marcus,
All dis-ease comes from sin and a lack of an connection to God.
So are you saying that people (like my grandmother) die of cancer (Or any other fatal incurable disease) because they don't love god enough? No matter how pious (like my grandmother) they are? No matter how faithful they are to your god? You, and all others who share your outlook, disgust me.
Yes depression is caused because things in life become to grievous to handle. If you know God those issues would become meaningless because you trust with your whole heart in him to take care of it all for you.
So basically you're saying that people who suffer from depression that are also christian are made to continue suffering just because they don't love god enough? Religion is not a magic cure-all, and to promote that belief is harmful so long as a single person heeds it and decides to forego needed medical attention.
"Yes depression is caused because things in life become to grievous to handle."stop feeling that way? Isn't that the basic message of your religion?
I've been officially diagnosed as manic depressive for an excess of five years or so now, but it's a chemical imbalance, not a lack of connection to God.
If that really was the case, I figure he would have gotten a better Internet provider by now.
I don't think my recent depression was down to my Atheism. It's a wild guess, but I'd say it was because in the space of 18 months my father died (and I spent 12 hours watching him die), a very good friend hung himself and I was attacked by two random people one my way home one Saturday night which left me with one tooth broken in half and another cracked and displaced (still causes me pain). All this, plus money problems (partially due to my father dying) caused me to drop out of my degree and unable to find work and then slowly develope an eating disorder.
Unless, if course, you're sugessting God killed my father and my friend within months of eachother as either part of his plan or to punish me for my atheism...and if so, then fuck him and fuck you.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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