How Did I Become Depressed? | Herbert Cooper - Audio

Jeremiah 15:10 I wish I had never been born! I’m always in trouble with everyone in Judah. I never lend or borrow money, but everyone curses me just the same. (CEV) <br><br> 6 Ways You Get In The Cave Of Depression <br><br> 1. Out of control lifestyles <br><br> 1. Out of control emotions <br><br> 1 Kings 19:2-4   So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” 3  Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4  while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” (NIV) <br><br> 2. Out of control schedules <br><br> Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. (NIV) <br><br> 2. Comparing yourself to others <br><br> Galatians 6:4 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. (NLT) <br><br> 3. Negative self-talk <br><br> 1 Kings 19:10 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” (NIV) <br><br> Romans 8:6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. (NIV) <br><br> 4. Inability to process pain in a healthy way <br><br> John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.  <br><br> 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,  4  who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble wi