{"id":1016,"date":"2008-09-06T07:56:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2008-09-06T07:56:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T14:56:16","slug":"when-youre-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/when-youre-depressed\/","title":{"rendered":"When You’re Depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you handle discouragement?<\/p>\n

Better yet — how do you beat it?<\/p>\n

(I fear too many of us — well, I, anyway — enjoy too much wallowing in it.)<\/p>\n

Andrée Seu wrote in WorldMagBlog:<\/p>\n\n\n
For what ails you<\/a><\/p>\n

The best thing to do when you\u2019re depressed is to live as though you\u2019re not depressed. (That advice applies to fear and other suffering as well.)<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

And then I pray God\u2019s promises over it\u2014\u201cI will never leave you or forsake you\u201d; \u201cMy power is made perfect in weakness\u201d; that sort of thing. It helps, also, to make a list of what you need to do that day, and just start doing it. Press into life and live it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I simply have to remember that.<\/p>\n

And this:<\/p>\n\n\n
Psalm 139:10<\/b><\/p>\n

“Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you handle discouragement? Better yet — how do you beat it? (I fear too many of us — well, I, anyway — enjoy too much wallowing in it.) Andrée Seu wrote in WorldMagBlog: For what ails you The best thing to do when you\u2019re depressed is to live as though you\u2019re not depressed. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-health","category-lessons-for-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}