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I also think that many of these drugs available to "cure" depression today are a hindrance rather than a help. I understand the need for sleeping all the time due to the drugs.  I had a friend on multiple doses of different anti-depressants, and she literally slept in a recliner most of the day, went to work at night, never saw her children grow up, and realized YEARS later that she had missed huge chunks of her kids lives. I also went thru a period of sleeping a lot.  I thought it was fatigue from working so much when I was a single mom, but as I look back on it now, I can see it was an "escape mechanism" I used to just leave life.

Suicide is a very common thought to people who suffer from depression and it is the ultimate form of selfishness.  Satan would love nothing more than to get the final victory in this way.  He will have won, even though you would be in heaven.  He is not just after you, he will not rest until he has your children, your loved ones and their testimonies for Christ.  He will get your children or your husband after you're gone.  No doubt about it.  You gave up, why shouldn't they?

God only and God alone brought me to the realization that I was trying to do this in the power of my own might.  I was NOT leaning on God........I was NOT trusting in His word, I did NOT know how to.

What I did to begin the process of rising out of my depression, was the next thing ,and then the next thing and then the next RIGHT thing.  I started actually DOING all the things I had heard from the pulpit for years........I started setting an alarm and getting up at 5:30 every morning, just so I could read my Bible before anyone else got up. I read in Psalms where David said, "Early seek me" or something like that and thought, "Well, it worked for him, it's in the Book, maybe it could start things on the right track for me".

You certainly DON'T need to try and change your life to become an early riser if that does not fit into your schedule.  If you are already depressed and have problems with schedules or change, then for Pete’s sake,  if late at night when everyone else is quiet is best for you, then by all means DO IT THEN.  Or just before lunch, or right after lunch.  The point here is to DO IT.......at a regular time each day so it becomes habit."

I started keeping a prayer journal. It was really very juvenile, but I had NO ONE to show me how to do it.  I would write down a request, or something I or someone else needed, then when that request was answered, I would cross it off, write the date and put PRAISE over it in big letters.  It absolutely amazed me how quickly answered prayers started adding up. It gave me HOPE, to see these answers to prayer just adding up in this little book of mine.  PROOF that God IS who He says He is and that He DOES answer prayer, and that He DOES care for even the little things in my life.

I started praying OUT LOUD. I sounded like a child at first. I always wanted to pray these grand and glorious prayers of those senior saints at church, and mine sounded like abc's, but I FORCED myself to do it for weeks on end, every morning.......praise Him, Praise Him,  PRAISE HIM.......I heard teachers at the Bible college I attended who gave sermons on how to talk to God. I got copies of the tapes, had a friend transcribe them onto paper and then I DID EXACTLY WHAT IT SAID TO DO.

I am a person who needs a LIST.  I need a PLAN.  I HAVE TO HAVE THINGS WRITTEN DOWN.  Maybe you are not like that.  I am NOT a creative person, God skipped me and gave all that kind of talent to my mother and my daughter.  I need CLEAR DIRECTIONS and a picture of the finished product, then I can make or do whatever someone tells me.  So, I sat down and wrote a list.  I will share that list of the steps out of depression at the end of this article.  

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