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by Barbara Epp I want to tell you about my experience with depression, why I think God allows some of us to experience it in our lives, and how we can have hope in the midst of it. I am not a doctor, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist. I am simply one who has experienced depression first-hand. I am, in fact, one, who, with God’s help, has learned from the experience. Symptoms and Causes To some people depression is a time of feeling low and discouraged. While this is an accurate description, it doesn’t necessarily describe all the other feelings that can be part of depression. I will share with you what my experience was: You feel desperate and that you are losing control of your life. It is a space filled with darkness, fear, despair and panic. Your thought world profoundly impacts your physical life. You feel as if time is racing or you are moving in slow motion. Your world and activities appear insurmountable and life can feel like a pit. There are overwhelming feeli...

When i was much younger i remembered my teacher always saying if you multiply 2 by 3 the resultant answer would always be 6, Whether you like it or not. On the other hand 3 by 2 will still arrive at 6. It doesn't matter which come first in as much as the sign remains the same. One day a little boy stood up and said to the teacher " sir i don't like the number 6". And the teacher replied if you don't like 6 then you must avoid putting numbers together that would arrive at 6. In order to achieve and succeed, you must change the attitude that has always made you a failure to the attitude that guarantee success. But if you keep on repeating those attitude that made you a failure then you keep on getting the same result.