depression...

Depression...

After writing Millions of smiles, this article came out and I just felt this was next to add to the mix..

My father was happy, the gentleman, loved people, friendly, but was diagnosed with "terminal depression" before he passed away...
I had never heard of it before, but watching it overpower him was excruciatingly difficult.  I felt  so helpless as did the medical people around him...nothing we did helped him by the time it was diagnosed. If it would have been addressed sooner, maybe he would have been here, but maybe not...God has numbered our days and I can't live with regrets...
We did what we could at the time...

There is depression for some people...both of my parents experienced it for various reasons, I have experienced it...some needed time to work through, some needed medication, some needed counseling or any of the combinations...I always knew that God was there holding tightly, but the darkness was still overpowering at times...

Now, as I watch my generation aging, we are experiencing lack of purpose, physical problems just like the generations before...and depression is becoming an issue as has it has in the past...the "boomers" have been an active, moving generation...we have changed the world, accumulated wealth, and now we are slowing down, much to our chagrin...and may not be taking it too well..we don't like pain, and still want answers and good health...and expect to have it...even when we may not have it all...

So I add this article ...it is not the end-all information...but a start...

Thank YOU for the Days you have given...

Psalm 86:11-13 Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead.

Psalm 39:5-7 You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure. “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.
"But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.