If there is one thing I have learned from my friends with depression, it is that loneliness kills. Pretty much everyone feels lonely at some point of their life. But depression makes you feel lonely every second of every day. It makes you dread being alone for the rest of your life, with no one to understand your plight. As a note to those who don't suffer from depression but are reading this, please, help others feel a little less abandoned. All it takes is a smile, a hug, a few words of reassurance, and letting someone know you are there for them no matter what. Because I did all of these little things, I have been called an angel... That is both a sweet and an absolutely heart-wrenching feeling. It only takes a few seconds: so be an angel.
If you suffer from depression, know that
you are not alone. One day my friend found these scriptures, and they really resonated with him:
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? --Psalms 22:1
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? --Mark 15:34
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? --Matthew 27:46
Christ felt alone, completely forsaken and abandoned during His divine sacrifice. Abraham Lincoln struggled with depression throughout his life, as well as Hans Christian Anderson, Johnny Depp, Sir Isaac Newton, and Ernest Hemingway. If you feel alone in your troubles, know that you are not ever alone. If you feel abandoned by your God, don't worry : He is there for you. I know you may not always feel it, but the people around you love you very much. Sometimes the miracles we pray and hope for are a little ray of sunshine or a flower poking through the sidewalk. Sometimes they are embodied in the people around us.
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