Depression Self Help ~ My Personal Testimony
This depression self help testimony was born out of my own intense personal experience. Besides having a very sad, depressing childhood and upbringing, I suffered from depression for at least two decades later in life. So, from an experiential viewpoint, of someone who has known the depths of despair, hopelessness, and dark depression, I am able now to speak from my heart as one who has come through the long dark tunnel into the LIGHT. A death wish plagued me, crying out to God for help with intensity that made me bang my head against the bathroom wall. Now, delivered and set free from that horrible dark depression, this has brought me the experience, knowledge and wisdom to help others to be free. I can now give you the pathway that I have found for depression self help. To add to the obstacles I needed to overcome was the fact that I was a “Highly Sensitive Person”. The type of individual who felt psychic perceptions, the emotions of others to such an extreme as to become confused as to what was me and what was someone else, I became confused, discouraged, and sick of life. I so desperately needed depression self help. The only things that prevented me from “doing myself” in was my children, my family, and my strong religious background that threatened me with “hell” if I checked out of here. Actually, I’m glad for those two restraints. Even though my religious views changed over the years. There was no depression self help for me within the walls of my religion. So, it became an intensely spiritual walk, which led me into energy healing. Spiritual growth seemed to continue steadily onward in spite of the depression and hopeless state I had learned to live with. For the two decades previous to my freedom, it was an ongoing problem. Praying until I no longer had any faith to even belief I could be free of the dark feelings, I prayed on. Then, freedom came. Several years ago, I began a walk of energy healing in various ways, including EFT the Emotional Freedom Technique. A great ray of hope came to me that I had at last found depression self help. Books came to me that were so deep and extensive in their ability to help me that I was praising and giving thanks to the Creator for them. Finally, I could see the light. Now, I’m actually able to thank the Creator for the long dark years because of the compassion it has built into me, and the desire to help others who have suffered from the horrible black heavy blanket of despair. Living remotely, there was no place I could go for help but UP! And, for many years I did not have the money to spend on expensive therapies, and psychoanalysis. When help finally arrived in my life, it was inexpensive, depression self-help related, with methods I could do myself. Gasping like a drowning man for air, I grabbed at every book, EFT session, and method of Energy Healing that could possibly help me. Somehow I managed to gather enough strength, determination, and motivation to take small “baby steps” each day to do my newfound lessons. IT WORKED!!! I had found depression self help! I was actually surprised, because of how desperate I had been, how totally without faith or trust I seemed to be, how absolutely despairing I was that it would ever stop….Yes, I was happily, pleasantly surprised. Out of my own desperate need, there has evolved for me a system that works, and is still working, changing my life into a JOURNEY OF JOY. The EFT clearings I did covered all areas of my life, one-by-one, my birth, childhood, teens, young married woman, section by section, emotion by emotion, forgiveness by forgiveness, I kept on moving ahead, slowly at first, but, then, seeing the results, I moved into more and more, with excited happy feelings. IT WORKED!!! If you are feeling hopeless, like there is no way out, like there are no answers to your repeating questions, playing like a broken record over and over and over in your mind, THERE IS HOPE. If what I am about to share, worked for me, it can work for anyone. Who else do you know that has suffered from birth up through decades of adult life, and has now been free for years? I have. Oh, yes, depression or just a melancholy sadness rears up every once in a while, but it is so unfamiliar to me now that I see it instantly, and begin my prayerful energy work. This way of life works for me, and I am full of the joy of living. I love life. I laugh a lot. I look forward to what lies ahead. These wonderful things I want to share with you do work. If all you are able to do is take baby steps, that’s fine. It will still work. What I’m not saying – I’m not saying “don’t go to the Dr.”, or, “don’t take any medicine, or herbs”, or, “you don’t need that counselor, or professional help”. I’m not saying that. Go, if you need to while you are obtaining and really grabbing a hold of your healing. There were times, like when my 26 yr. old daughter died suddenly, that I took a mild tranquilizer my Doctor gave me. It served a purpose, that of shutting off the screaming, running thoughts that I could not get to stop. It helped me to get much needed rest. So, whether you need herbs, vitamins, or a mild sedative to help get you over the big humps in the road toward healing, don’t let any guilt or condemnation steal in and beat you up. Do whatever you need to do in a safe way, to get through the rough times, the crises, as you carry out this healing program. Allow me to share with you what has worked for me, and continues to keep me free. This is the beginning of a new series on DEPRESSION SELF HELP for the podcasts concerning depression and anger. You could listen to the previous ones on finding the ROOT CAUSES and CORE ISSUES of depression, or any other emotional/physical problem by listening to some of the older Podcasts on Energy Healing, Mind Body Connection at http://meridiantappingenergyhealing.mypodcastworld.com/ |