Emotions: Saddness / Depression

1. Feeling sad is

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   a sin. However, we need to let it guide us during our difficult times; as we do, we can actually become strengthened by it.

2. Sadness can cause us to reach out and

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   with others.

3. Sadness can actually cause us to become more

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   with others.

4. When we experience sadness, it helps us

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   with others who are going through difficult times of sadness as well.

5. Sadness can also help

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   us of “what really matters most” and what gives our life meaning!

6. When we are depressed, we might describe our mood as despondent, meaning we are very discouraged, very sad, and without

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   .

7. Depression can be traced to an unhealthy reaction to a painful event, leaving us “hard-hearted” or “overwhelmed,” or arise without a

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   explanation.

8. Depression affects

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   of Americans and can manifest in many forms such as:
   1. persistent depressive disorder - symptoms lasting 2 years or more.
   2. major depression - symptoms lasting at least 2 weeks.
   3. post-partum depression - following the birth of a baby.
   4. SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) – occurring in the longer, darker days of winter.
9. According to the Meier Mental Health Clinic, studies show that
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   Americans is depressed at any given time!
10. Women are depressed
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    as often as men.
11. People in upper income brackets are
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    more depressed than those with lower incomes.
12. Depression is more common for people in their
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    .
13. Being tempted is
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    a sin; and neither is being sad and depressed, which some wrongly consider to be evidence of a poor relationship with God.
14. Once we
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    an “emotional high point,” there is nowhere else to go but “back down.”
15. Rick Warren once said, “We more readily give in to sin when we are
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    !”

16. God’s plan was to take Elijah’s mind “off of himself” and help him “focus” on a different cause - which was to go anoint Elisha as his

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    .

17. When we find ourselves in a place of sadness or depression as Elijah did, we need to:

    1. look at our physical needs for
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       , exercise, and eating nutritional food.
    2. cast our anxieties on God and ask for His
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       .
    3. look outside our own needs and go
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       someone, somehow.
    4. look to
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       for fellowship and friendship.

18. Whenever we find ourselves being “beat-up” by sadness, depression, and despondency, we need to remind God of His Word, thank Him for His love and mercy, and be thankful for the fact that He is

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    a respecter of persons!

19. Sadness is a “

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    emotion,” but God doesn’t want it to destroy us. Neither does He want us to give in to it, allowing it to induce despair and depression in us.