Comments on: On Confessing Your Illness

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:24:14 +0000

Acceptance of the reality of the situation is the first step to getting better.

Thank you for sharing.

By: navymanmi

navymanmi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:26:35 +0000

Sorry to say most employers think people who have a mental illness are useless. Just because you have a mental illness doesn't mean that your employer can fire you. You have rights now under the American Disability Act, and well as other laws.

Telling your employer that you have such an illness is also a hugh mistake. I feel that the church who let you go, isn't one that I would want to work for anyway. Where is there Christian Ethics at?

I wouldn't give up your profession, you may even have a case with the EEOC, for unlawful discharge. I would look into it.

If you didn't want to go that route, look for new employment in the same field. I'm sure many good churches are looking for good honest Christian people like yourself.

By: navymanmi

navymanmi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:15:57 +0000

God be with, may he also give you peace, and comfort.

By: navymanmi

navymanmi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:13:53 +0000

I hear what you are saying, and I've ask the same type of questions over and over again and again in my own life.

I have been fighting Major Depression all of my lfe, and have had many failures in my life as a result of the illness. The last failure in a job I really loved, and always thank God for. I lost that job because of stress, being a work acoholic, not taking time for myself, OCD, and forgetting that it was God who put me in that job, however, I left God and put myself above him, to the point I felt I didn't need him anymore.

After which I went into a deep, deep, deep, depressive mood, panic attacks, mood swings, and all that goes with it.

All I can say to you is be the best you can be. Put God first in your life no matter what. Take the time to walk and talk to him, pray, study, and remebr that he is always there, even when your mind tells you he isn't there.

By: navymanmi

navymanmi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:13:38 +0000

God is there, has been there, and will always be there for you and every Christian. I think it takes some one who has this illness to understand and can relate to you. I find reading Scripture helps, praying, taking you medication, and doing what you have to do to take care of yourself mentally and physically.

By: DLW

DLW — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:42:12 +0000

.____I confess my sins every day several times a day, I say the Lords Prayer several times a day. I'm not perfect, I'm a sinner who ask God to have mercy on me, a poor miserable that 's me.____It is also stated that Dr. Martin Luther suffered from depression. Of course back then they didn't know what it really was. However, he had his very bad days also.____

By: DLW

DLW — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:42 +0000

Drugs and Therapy are not always the answer either. I've been so drugged up that I couldn't even function. and this what we look forward to now, doctors who think everything be solve with a pill. They treat the person with contempt, pushing medications, switching medications, increasing dosage, I've been through it all. I argee with Tom Cruze, many are only interested in pushing pills, and that's it. If your in a state, program, that's all your going to get. The shrink ask, how are you doing. how are your medications, here is your refills see you in three months. Then they write a one or two page report on you and put in in your file. Its a joke. Maybe you been through this yourself?

By: DLW

DLW — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:40:38 +0000

It is a brain Disorder, and the DSM IV has all of the explanations about all of them.____One I don't believe its caused by sin nor more then I believe that cancer, TB, Birth Defects, or any other illness is a directly related to sin. Its God's curse that was placed on human kind as a result of the fall of Adam and Eve. He cursed every human, he cursed nature, and etc.____I think many pastors are unable to apprehend, or show compassion for those who have this illness. Many people who have this illness would rather just stay home, then to be out and about, feeling the way they do. ____

By: DLW

DLW — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:39:00 +0000

I can relate to a lot of what you have stated. If anything, people who have a mental illness are already judge by ourselves, as well as others. The Stigma that is associated with this illness is beyond belief in society, as well as in the church. Comments like he or she is a loaded cannon, can't be trusted, sinful being, trouble maker, and others, I've heard over the years. ____Pastors are not trained counselors, therapist, mental professional, and many of them just blame the person instead of the illness. They blame your sins, as if God gives you all of these new sins they come up with. Does a Loving God make you commit sin? We are under Christ's Grace just like any other Chistian, we are saved through him, as he said he that believes in me, shall be saved. He didn't say but, if, he said you are saved. ____

By: Agathou

Agathou — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:59:49 +0000

Depression cost me my job. As a youth pastor I confessed it to my church leadership and I received very little help. When my youth group found out it was the most embarrassing day of my life. It still haunts me.