Christian female holding two handfuls of antidepressant medication.

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  1. Wow thank you for this post, you have just described my life. Anxiety, depression and frankly I feel like I am a complete failure.

  2. I truly believe God’s Word❤️ He is our healer and our Deliverer!!!!! He also gave man the wisdom to create medicine. A friend’s Christian doctor gave this analogy: if you have diabetes you take insulin in order to live…sometimes you need antidepressants in order to live and function through life whether temporary or longer. If there is something available to help you, would God really want you to suffer needlessly??? I truly don’t believe it!!!! Thank you so much for putting into words what so many Christians and others struggle with as far as healing and deliverance. Honestly, to me getting help shows incredible strength, not weakness!!!!!!

  3. Wow! Love the transparency! That’s have the battle. Letting pride go to admit there is a problem and then to seek help. Sometimes we seek help without being transparent. Usually doesn’t work. God is good and all powerful when we come to him bare naked and not filled with pride. Nice blog. God bless you!

  4. Thank you for your words of encouragement. I grew up believing that “mental illness” was a sign of weakness……something you didn’t talk about to avoid being separated and singled out from others. I tried every other way of dealing with my anxiety and depression only to find myself sinking further into the “mire”. I am not afraid to admit I need outside help and as you said “sometimes it is a temporay relief to kickstart our joy again”!

  5. If your doctor says your vitamins B12 is low, you would go purchase B12 and take it everyday. So, too, when your doctor indicates your serotonin is low, you should take something daily to restore it. It is a chemical imbalance, and once restored, can give you the courage to talk about what is buried within. Thank you for this post. It is spot on.

  6. Thanks for sharing this! I *know* it’s normal to suffer from PPD/PPA, and normal to seek help, but I’ve also been told to “pray harder” and so I stop from pursuing a prescription. I made up my mind this morning when I had a panic attack out of nowhere in the service, and wasn’t able to listen to a single word of the sermon (don’t tell Rufus ) and it’s just nice to have this struggle normalized.

  7. Much needed truth for so many dealing with anxiety and depression. As Christians we think we “shouldn’t” feel this way. My 14 year old needed anxiety medicine after we have tried every alternative. Her body was fighting itself and needed a restart. I am so thankful we trusted God and gave her the medicine she needed to heal. Thank you for your honesty.

  8. Thank you for this.. I really needed to hear from someone else that sometimes you need a little medicine to help you . Once you don’t need it , it helps you to recognize the triggers and medicine is from the Bible… I have a son with Anxiety that was taking an antidepressant and then he just stopped one day.. He is back to himself and I couldn’t be more proud of him…

  9. Thank you for this post. I have been struggling with the fact that I have to take Effexor XR for my severe anxiety and Gabapentin to help me sleep and for RLS. I didn’t really think that it was an issue until I read a statement that antidepressants PREVENT you from hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit. I was crushed when I read this as that is something I have struggled with most of my life. I then (after reading that statement) decided to come off my 2 medications in hopes that it would help me hear the Lord when He is speaking to me. Needless to say it was a DISASTER. I ended up going back on my meds and feel so much better. After this fiasco I began to think that I would never hear from the Lord since I would likely never be able to come off my meds ( I had substantial severe early childhood trauma, abuse and neglect that left me with C-PTSD ). I decided to do something I realized I hadn’t been doing: TRUST in Him and have FAITH. Since I made a conscious decision to BELIEVE what His Word says I have entered into a peace that I simply cannot describe. The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me through the Word and through my morning Devotionals like NEVER BEFORE. This absolutely proves the statement that sent me into a tailspin is FALSE. I decided to search the internet on Christians who take antidepressants and promptly found this blog post. I cannot tell you how thankful I am for it because it helps me to know that I am not alone in this mental health fight. God bless your blog and God bless you, dear sister in Christ.

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