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@evelyn Well, it might be over, but it isn’t fine. It’s never fine when people do that.

Well, TBH as soon as I wrote that line about reading some Christian Fiction that was good, my brain went, “WAIT. What? You have?”

Let me go stare at my bookshelf for awhile and see if I can actually find something. 😜

Is Narnia considered “Christian”? Because those are awesome books, but I’m sure you have read them. Um…I think Wayne Thomas Batson is a christian author. I thought his The Door Within books were kind of preachy and stiff, but I did really like The Dark Sea Annuals, they were pretty cool and not nearly as bad as The Door Within. (don’t tell anybody I said that because I’m pretty sure there are people on here that really like The Door Within. 🙃)

Okay, never mind. I don’t read Christian fiction…I know nothing. Sorry for misleading you into believing that I actually knew of some great christian books.

*crawls under bed*

Nope, it doesn’t sound mean or insensitive and I think I understand what your saying. Although I would agree with @seekjustice that there is more than two types of depression. (Not to gang up on you or anything…)

Hey, you have good things to say! I’m happy to hear your thoughts! 😀

@seekjustice

That’s so cool! Go you. 😍 I’m sorry to hear that your stressed, though. That stinks. 😫

I’ll be keeping this in mind. 😉

Ohmygoodness, thank you!! This is amazing! I will definitely be looking into these articles! *hands you pizza* And a big hedgehug, too!!

@sarah-inkdragon Okay, yeah, I understand where you are coming from. It makes sense, I just don’t know how much I agree with you. 🙃

I agree that quite often depression and anxiety and things like that are directly tied to sin. It’s true that a lot of our problems are caused by us looking inward instead of upward, to God. I’d be  the first to admit that we humans are incredibly selfish, and if we truly lived the way God designed for us to, a lot of problems we have wouldn’t exist.

But as for mental illnesses, I don’t know. Think of somebody whose been through something really traumatic, their body will go into protective mode, doing everything and anything it can to save itself. And out of that may come all sorts of things, PTSD, anxiety, depression…and I would say, in that case, these things are caused not by sin, but because our body is desperately trying to cope with something it was never designed to deal with in the first place.

I think a lot of mental disorders are caused by some sort of trauma. Probably a lot of mental disorders start when people are little kids and they don’t have the mental or emotional capabilities to process what they went through. Think of a child who was sexually abused, their gonna bear scars from that for the rest of their lives, and yeah, even if they are trusting Jesus and doing their absolute best to heal and process, they still may have to struggle with mental illness for the rest of their lives. And in saying that I’m not trying to diminish God’s power or grace at all. In even the worst possible situations, God is not handicap. He can, and will, heal and restore.

We live in a fallen world, and we’ll never fully conquer our sin until we reach heaven. We’ll rise from sin and fall back again, but by God’s grace, we are over comers.

Hope this made some sense, I feel like I was really rambling and didn’t tie my thoughts together very well, but *shrugs* oh well.

What are your thoughts, @evelyn on @sarah-inkdragon‘s response to our questioning? 🙂