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What is Depression?

What is Depression?. A psychotic or neurotic condition characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, and feelings of extreme sadness, dejection, and hopelessness. What is Depression?.

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What is Depression?

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  1. What is Depression? • A psychotic or neurotic condition characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, and feelings of extreme sadness, dejection, and hopelessness.

  2. What is Depression? • A psychotic or neurotic condition characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, and feelings of extreme sadness, dejection, and hopelessness. • From a Bible standpoint there are several words which would either describe or involve depression: Anxiety, despair, worry, an overwhelmed spirit, etc.

  3. The Christian Life is Joyful! • (John 10:10 NKJV) - “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

  4. The Christian Life is Joyful! • (Philippians 4:4 NKJV) - Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

  5. The Christian Life is Joyful! • God has not promised to take away the sources of our despair, but has given us the way to endure with joy. (1 Cor 10:13; Phil 1:30)

  6. The Christian Life is Joyful! • (1 Corinthians 10:13 NKJV) No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

  7. The Christian Life is Joyful! • (Philippians 1:27-30 NKJV) - Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

  8. The Christian Life is Joyful! • {28} and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God. {29} For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, {30} having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

  9. The Christian Life is Joyful! • The most powerful example of our faith is how we respond in suffering. (2 Cor 12:10)

  10. The Christian Life is Joyful! • (2 Corinthians 12:10 NKJV) - Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

  11. Characteristics of Depression • Depression alone is not a sin!

  12. Characteristics of Depression • Depression alone is not a sin! • There are different levels of depression - Short term, Periodic and Chronic.

  13. Characteristics of Depression • Depression alone is not a sin! • There are different levels of depression - Short term, Periodic and Chronic. • All God given emotions are to be experienced.

  14. Characteristics of Depression • (Ecclesiastes 3:2-4 NKJV) A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; {3} A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up; {4} A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance;

  15. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • An unreal view of the world and people. They often have their own reality.

  16. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • An unreal view of the world and people. They often have their own reality. • There can be physical reasons for depression.

  17. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • An unreal view of the world and people. They often have their own reality. • There can be physical reasons for depression. • However if depression is not checked it can come to control ones actions and thinking. In many cases this is an issue within the control of the Christian.

  18. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • Consider some indications of chronic depression.

  19. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • An unreal view of the world and people. They often have their own reality.

  20. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • An unreal view of the world and people. They often have their own reality. • They become ego centered. All things are viewed by how it relates to them.

  21. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • An unreal view of the world and people. They often have their own reality. • They become ego centered. All things are viewed by how it relates to them. • There is a strong desire to withdraw.

  22. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • There is a strong desire for escape. (Eating, shopping, drugs, alcohol, “binges,” immorality, spending all spare time on recreation)

  23. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • There is a strong desire for escape. (Eating, shopping, drugs, alcohol, “binges,” immorality, spending all spare time on recreation) • There are physical changes.

  24. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • There is a strong desire for escape. (Eating, shopping, drugs, alcohol, “binges,” immorality, spending all spare time on recreation) • There are physical changes. • Thoughts of suicide.

  25. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • Warning signs of suicide • * Changes in eating and sleeping habits. • * Withdrawal from friends, family, activities. • * Violent or rebellious behavior, running away.

  26. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • Warning signs of suicide • * Drug, alcohol abuse. • * Changes in hygiene. • * Persistent boredom, difficulty concentrating, decline in schoolwork. • * Frequent stomachaches, headaches, fatigue.

  27. Characteristics of Chronic Depression • Warning signs of suicide. • * Loss of interest in pleasurable activities. • * Inability to accept praise. • * Feeling "rotten inside." • * Giving away favorite possessions. • * Verbal hints, such as "I won't see you again."

  28. Men who Overcame Depression • Elijah (1 Kings 19:2-10, 18)

  29. Men who Overcame Depression • (1 Kings 19:2-8 NKJV)Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” {3} And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

  30. Men who Overcame Depression • {4} But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” {5} Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.”

  31. Men who Overcame Depression • {7} And the angel of the LORD came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” {8} So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

  32. Men who Overcame Depression • (1 Kings 19:18 NKJV)“Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

  33. Men who Overcame Depression • David (Psa 142:1-4)

  34. Men who Overcame Depression • (Psalms 142:1-4 - I cry out to the LORD with my voice; With my voice to the LORD I make my supplication. {2} I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble. {3} When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk They have secretly set a snare for me. {4} Look on my right hand and see, For there is no one who acknowledges me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for my soul.

  35. Men who Overcame Depression • Both these men were able by faith to overcome.

  36. Sources of Depression • Buried anger. A passive escape! (Eph 4:26-27; 1 John 3:15)

  37. Sources of Depression • (Ephesians 4:26-27 NKJV)“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, {27} nor give place to the devil.

  38. Sources of Depression • (1 John 3:15 NKJV) - Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

  39. Sources of Depression • Often the most angry people I know are the most passive ones.

  40. Sources of Depression • Often the most angry people I know are the most passive ones. • By burying and dwelling on hurts we only make them bigger. We may make them permanent.

  41. Sources of Depression • It is never better to run from problems. God has commanded what we should do. (Matt 5:23-24; 18:15-17)

  42. Sources of Depression • Living in the past. (Phil 3:12-14)

  43. Sources of Depression • Philippians 3:12-14 - Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. {13} Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, {14} I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

  44. Sources of Depression • Selfishness. (Phil 2:3-4)

  45. Sources of Depression • (Philippians 2:3-4 NKJV)Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. {4} Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

  46. Sources of Depression • An overemphasis on the here and now. (1 Tim 6:6-10; 17-18)

  47. Sources of Depression • (1 Timothy 6:6-10 NKJV) Now godliness with contentment is great gain. {7} For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. {8} And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. {9} But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  48. Sources of Depression • {10} For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

  49. Sources of Depression • (1 Timothy 6:17-18 NKJV) Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. {18} Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share,

  50. Sources of Depression • A poor family upbringing. (Eph 6:4)

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