How did you overcome anxiety or depression without medicine, but with Jesus?

Prayer to GOD and Jesus.

Meditation on GOD

I did this by laying on my back,.... or in another comfortable posistion..and relaxing every mussle in my body. and clearing every thought from my mind, then i'd ask god to fill my mind, body, and soul... and focus on that divine engergy as long as I could, usually untill it put me to sleep.

When I woke up I'd tell myself that this day would be happy as long as I did the right thing and trusted god (and it would be)

This quote also helped when I was starting to feel down

“Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.”

I overcame major cronic depression this way.

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It hurts me that so many people put you and god down in thier answers, I ask... how can they be so happy when they feel the need to put others in dismay...

I'm so sorry about thier answers.....

May peace find them

It does exist.

I know because i've seen it, felt it...

It's more real than anything, remember that.

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I had it really bad (especially anxiety) for many years from the time i was about 18 until about age 27. (Im 30 now)

I always had a very close walk with God, but even though I prayed and believed (without missing one day in all those years)!

I did not get better, only worse.

I have been abused and homeless, instead of helped because my parents wanted to be rid of me and not go through what was necessary to help me get better. Church friends and others didn't understand either, I never could even use the phone or drive after the first couple of years of it... so that scared them, i guess..

anyway, I wish i could have gotten on medication. Since I could not call or make it to the doctor on my own until i was 27.. that made it impossible to aquire any meds. I also had no computer (thank God i do now).

At 27, I also had to go to the hospital because of pain, pressure and nausea in my stomach area. I could not eat or pass anything.

I passed out on the road and someone took me there...

I was hospitalized right away. They found a rare form of cancer in my small intestine that had metastasized to my liver and pancreas. I'm still being treated... I don't have anxiety now. I guess cancer scared it out of me?! Well, I do think it helped..

When your faced with the scariest thing and there is no way to run or hide you realize there is nothing to really do, but trust in God.

I know I needed to trust in God and not be afraid or trust in anything else before all this, But I just couldn't... to the degree i needed to anyway. That's why it may take alot of time, but God does help you to do it, with or without someone to help you in your life, and maybe even without meds. (although it is an extremely difficult road).

If you have anxiety or depression and you can get some help or have someone help you, by all means... GET THE HELP!

God will not think you don't have faith, it takes alot of faith just to go get help. God be with you in your journey through this illness.

Contact me if you wish, you'll be in my prayers....

I overcame anxiety or depression after i left the path of Christianity and became a pagan, since then my life has been alot better with alot less anxiety and depression, never regretted it, it was the path for me. In my opinion, christianity was the source for my depression, it made me feel like no matter what i did i would never be good enough and seemed that with all the rules and regulations for going to heaven. When i became a pagan those restrictions were no longer there and it made me feel better and whole, with little to no depression, also im better able to seem like a good person of the christian concept while im a pagan than i ever have in christianity.

I overcame it without either.

As a sufferer from social anxiety, I simply put myself in more social situations. Sometimes, joining a club or something required more prodding from my friends (I had a tendency to make excuses because I was scared), but I slowly became less akward in public.

I have read some litterature about panic attacks. But they allways seem to have a more scientific approach and that is nothing I need in my struggle to survive those horrible panic attacks. This is a "hand on" and very practical book. I felt it was written to me. I am sure that you are going to feel the same.

Joe Barry writes exactly how I think. The examples are perfectly described. And the method is genius. I recommend this book and thanks Joe Barry for writing it. It changes your life

Jesus can be more harmful than anxiety and depression. Keep your anxiety and depression if the only medicine is Jesus.

You obsess over Jesus instead of your own worries...that way you become addicted to religion instead of prescription drugs, if you could throw yourself into the study of science you could probably also overcome depression by losing yourself in the awesomeness of recent discoveries there and get yourself a nice rational base of reality as a solid foundation without resorting to delusional religious therapy or drug-based medical therapy.

Actually I am on anti-depressants, and I have a chemical imbalance that prayer alone would not fix. I know God cared but His way of me handling the problem was medication.

First, despair that natural hope and fortitude can conquer the trials that one faces. Then rest in God to face life's difficulties. It is a lot like trying to float on water. The more one tries, the more likely one is to sink. However, the less control one tries to have over the water, the more likely he is to float. The same is true with life. The more control we try to impose on the world, the more anxious we become. When we relinquish our desire for mastery of the world to him, we can rest in his loving arms.

just because you love jesus doesn't mean that you can't help yourself! i love him too, but this is a crazy thought of yours. definitely pray about it, but see a psychiatrist. it is not your fault. it is a chemical imbalance. should a christian cancer patient stop treatment, waiting for God to heal? i don't think so. get some lamictal.