Posts

Are mental health issues caused by laziness?

Image
Blog Post #2 I heard a viewpoint once that people that struggle with mental health, such as anxiety or depression, are lazy. I was quite appalled, and passionately disagreed with that statement. There are quite a few real life examples of how that statement is false. (Disclaimer: I'm not trying to start an argument. Many of you may even know who made that statement. This post is inspired by thoughts on this statement, and not meant to destroy or pick this person apart.) Let me take you along in an evening of the life of young Trudy. I don't remember my age exactly, but I was probably around 8-10 somewhere. We were at my grandparents' house having a gathering. It was slowly getting darker and all the kids were still playing outside. The parents sat in the living room inside and I was sitting snug against my moms chair. Not because I wasn't feeling well, or didn't like playing. I just had this awful feeling in my chest. I felt like something horrible was going ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Spiritual Warfare

Image
Post #1   ❀  SPIRITUAL WARFARE I sometimes wonder how many of our seemingly small “anxieties” or inability to fall asleep are spiritual warfares? Yesterday evening everything just felt really off. There was no particular reason- sometimes that just happens. We went to bed, and I struggled to fall asleep. My brain was being ransacked by some pretty intrusive thoughts. Thoughts that attacked our marriage. Thoughts that made no logical sense at all. And I just let them wander. The more and more these thoughts swirled around in my head, the more I started to feel anxious. “Oh God, what do I do? Take this feeling away from me. I don’t know what to do with myself.” I prayed. I hadn’t felt at all anxious for a while now, the feeling almost felt new to me. I had the urge to harm myself. It's a weird thing, because you have such an unsettling and disturbed feeling in your chest that you don't know what to do with it.. And that leads to wanting to inflict physical pain so you can forget...
Post a Comment
Read more