{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Dealing With Depression","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e298b96f454a297457f0f0d/0a71af15aecf374b05d55eb138e60a10.jpg?height=200","description":"I am not discussing medical problems that can cause depression - if this is the case then the problem is not depression, but medical.\n\nI am also not discussing biologically caused depression, such as chemical imbalances that can be helped medically. \n\nI am discussing circumstantial depression in which something in life (known or unknown) has caused someone to become depressed.\n\n1. What is Depression?\n- Circumstantial depression is a severe, severe disappointment in life\n- Everyone struggles with depression \n- This is shown perfectly in the story of Elijah in 1 Kong’s 18 & 19\n- We have a picture, or expectation of what life should or will be like \n- When life does not turn out this way, or something tragic occurs, we become depressed\n\n2. How Does Depression Make Someone Feel?\n- Job 9:25-35\n- Depression sucks the joy out of all aspects of life\n- Depression makes us feel like our lives are wasting away\n- Depression causes us to feel alone and isolated\n- Depression causes us to dread each day\n- Depression makes us feel hopeless and useless\n- Depression makes us feel irredeemable\n\n3. How Do We Deal With Depression?\n- Job 9:25-35\n- Psalm 42:5\n- Acknowledge it / Embrace it\n- If your spouse is suffering, understand and come alongside them\n- Hope in God\n- “Hope” means to wait for an expected end\n- Understand that God is using problems in our lives to cause us to turn to Him and trust Him\n- The ultimate goal of life is not my happiness, my relief, or my comfort\n- The ultimate goal is for God to make me like Him (Christ)\n- Trust God in the midst of depression (or any other problem) and rest in Him as He molds you into the image of Christ","author_name":"Andrew McKinney"}