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5 Ways to Understand & Help Your Depressed Friend
Since I’ve been there, I have a few ideas of what might help your depressed friend. Depression is never something we want to walk through, but it’s here among us and there is something we can do. I’d like to share 5 ways to understand and help your depressed friend. Here are a few ways to understand your friend a little better and offer her a little hope on the hard days. Knowing and expressing these thoughts will take it from, “I just don’t get it” to “I don’t get it, but I want to.” 5 Ways to Understand & Help
When You Don’t See A Way Out
I looked at my phone and saw my happiest friend’s name pop up on the screen. She was my one friend I could count on for a good laugh. You know the laugh-until-you-cry kind of laughter that makes your stomach muscles hurt – this was that friend. I answered, “Hey girl!” The response on the other end immediately set off red flags in my brain. As I listened to her hold back the tears it was clear there was no specific thing that was affecting her emotions. She was feeling completely overwhelmed with motherhood. Her newborn baby was waking up
5 Verses to Find Your Faith Again
I pulled the covers up over my head and closed my eyes tightly. My mind embraced a new day, but my heart rejected the new tomorrow because I knew the things that made my heart feel heavy yesterday were still there. I can still feel the heaviness, the worry, the waiting and wondering if things would work out. The unknown outcomes caused anxiety. Questions, and heartaches from a fresh new wave of trials make us want to go to sleep and dream of a better tomorrow. A day when life is good again and our hearts don’t hurt so much.
When Life is Overwhelming and Strength is Gone
Sometimes the struggles of life take us under and sweep us away into unknown depths we have never experienced. You want to be strong, have faith, and smile through the storm, but tears, unknowns, and difficult scenarios bombard your mind faster than your faith can respond. We all have those seasons. For some it’s the loss of a loved one who seemed to hold the family together, for others it’s separation in a relationship that has held on for years. Perhaps it’s the words of a doctor that swirl inside your heart until you cannot handle another word. When life
Hope for Depression During Holidays
I am not a doctor or counselor, and I do not share this to give medical or physical advice, but if you are struggling with depression, or know someone who is, I hope this will be an encouragement. I have shared some of my own experience in past articles. You can find them HERE. While this is supposed to be a week filled with wonder and delightful gatherings, many will suffer in silence, be alone and feel misunderstood by even those closest to them. There is really no good verbal explanation for the way a depressed person truly feels. You
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