On Mental Health

I'm going to be really vulnerable here. I always thought depression is just a mindset that you should snap out of. A condition for the weak minded. Surely if you just change your thinking and focus on God’s goodness you’ll get through it... Then it happened to me.

Two years ago I mentally hit rock bottom. I felt frail, hopeless, weak, lost. I had no motivation and life lost its meaning. I couldn’t even praise God. I still new He existed. I still new He was good and faithful. But it didn’t matter how much I tried focusing on Him, I couldn’t snap out of it. I tried living like that for about six months. I had counseling and people praying for me. I fought the battle in my mind daily. Until, like I said, I hit rock bottom. Actually, my bottom fell out completely. I had no other choice, for the sake of my marriage and my children, I had to get help.

For some reason, Christians judge people with mental health issues when they take medication. There’s no judgement when a diabetic uses medication when their bodies can’t produce insulin. But when it comes to depression and your brain doesn’t produce serotonin, somehow we are supposed to be okay without meds. We pray for people with cancer for healing but we never say to them stop your chemo and radiation and just trust God. And when they then do get healed after receiving their treatments, we praise God for their healing. So why then can’t I be on medicine and still trust God to heal me while I’m on treatment?

So yes I am a Christian and a child of God. I also have depression and I take two tablets every morning. I take them so that I have the ability to get up and be a good wife and mother and also be a able to praise my Lord and Saviour while I trust in Him to one day heal me completely. That day hasn’t come yet, but my trust is still in Him and not in the medicine I take.

He is my Saviour and my Healer!

Blessings

Nadine

“For I am the Lord, who heals you.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭15:26‬ ‭NIV