What is Deipression?

Have you ever been depressed, I mean REALLY Depressed? You go through life, without reason, without thinking about anything, no joy, feeling nothing? I have, and I will tell you it is not fun. What is Depression? The feeling that nothing matters, that there is nothing you can do to change your circumstances. But where does it come from? Dwelling on mistakes, circumstances that seem overwhelming, the feeling that everyone and everything is against us.
Psalm 143:7
"Come quickly, Lord, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don’t turn away from me, or I will die."
See depression is not new, David suffered from it. The book of Psalms is full of him crying out to God. It really shows the human side of David. It shows us that when we feel depressed, God can and is willing to help.
I was thinking about depression recently, and if you bring it right down to the bone, Depression is Not trusting, not trusting anything. You feel that you have been let down, and cannot or will not put your trust in "anything". Have you ever met someone who was hurt by someone, I mean really hurt? They put up a barrier and No One gets in, maybe family, but no new friends, that cannot happen. Depression is like that, the wall is up, the guards are on alert, and NO one gets in, I mean no one. Depression deepens as we go along, we tend to stay home, not talk to anyone we don't have to. It starts to control our lives. We sit in the dark and watch TV, and not really watching it. Our minds are numb, not thinking about anything, because thinking about something means remembering things that started this feeling in the first place.
Is being depressed a sin, or a illness? Is it not trusting in God, or is it a form of mental illness? I believe it is a state of mind. We get sad about the circumstances we find ourselves in, feel hopeless, and instead of going to God with our problems, we continue to dwell on them, thereby falling further and further into depression.
What can we do when we find ourselves in this state of mind? Dwell on the things in our lives that God has given us, our family, our friends, our church people that care about us. Find good praise music, and think about the words that praise the Lord. Read the scriptures, especially the Psalms, David, let ALL his feelings show in these writings, both "Good" and "Bad". We can do the same, we can tell God exactly how we feel and why. We can shout at Him, yell at Him, blame Him for all our troubles. He is Big enough to take it, he does not have a problem with self worth as we do. You see, sometimes we continue to be depressed, because we want to be. Change doesn't have to happen because it is to hard, it is easier to just stay this way. It is comfortable, it is what we know. But it is not what God wants for us.
Lets look again at what David says in Psalms 143:7 "Come quickly, Lord, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don't turn away , for I will die"
....Don't turn away, for I will die?" So what happens if we allow depression to continue? Death. Death of our relationships with our friends,(they will eventually tire of this, and won't know what to do, so they will give up) death of our relationship with God, (by not letting this go into His hands, we are basically saying we don't trust Him to help us) Physical death,( Depression eats away at us, and shortens our lives, physically)
Did you know that Satan loves us in our depressed state? He knows that when we are feeling this way, we have less faith, less, spiritual power, more doubt, more despair, that we feel hopeless, lost, and more prone to temptation. He wants us to be depressed, because then it is so easy to take charge of us.
If you have ever been depressed, and felt guilty for feeling this way, you are not alone. We all, I believe, at one time or another have felt this way. Satan wants you to feel like your the only one who has ever felt like this. This will make you feel like your a freak, like no one else can understand you. Your wrong, I have felt this way, I know exactly the feeling of depression. The feeling of "why go own", the feeling that " nothing you do matters", the selfish feelings of "no body loves me "(I'm going to eat this worm", sorry old silly song I used to sing with my buddies in college)
When your depressed, you want to be by yourself, to dwell upon your problems in the darkness, with no one else around, I mean they might make you happy, make you feel better, make you see the better side of your problems. They might even come up with a solution. Can't have that.
Don't play these games, don't give into these wrong feelings. The God who made, well EVERYTHING, loves you, cares what happens to you, and WILL help you, BUT you have to want Him to. You have to ask Him to.
Depression, just another weapon in the enemies arsenal. Don't frett, if that is all he's got, were more then OK, were victorious.