Your biggest problem

[Oats]

I have an Idea,

It goes like this, I list my biggest problem, or just any problem, and you in turn give me advice and list your problem and the next person will do the same thing, and you should pray for the person too.

It is really hard for me to get advice, people always say they dont know and quite honestly i'm sick and tired of it.

I give advice, and I expect it back.

Funny thing is I'm no one to be giving commands but in order to get decent advice in today's world you need to hire a therapist who tells you what you want to hear and due to my mental illness I have had a lot of those

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I have faith problems, I believe but I want the image of Christ to be better shown in my life. I have voices all the time that shoot me down and the only way i can feel a little relief is if i smoke...coffe helps to, they both slow my mind down.

I don't feel conviction and my voices even curse God in my mind...

People don't like giving me advice and I often get more than I can handle, I don't get any more breaks than anyone else, nor do I receive a check every month, but I have to work a job and go to school like everyone else

Voices haunt me, unless I keep myself extremely busy creative wise...I feel extremely upset all the time...

My sister thinks it is at the point where we can joke about my mental illness but it is not...

What should I do?

 

[Alabaster]

Declare out loud every day: "I am healed in Jesus name!" The enemy will get the message and your mind will receive what is already there for you in your spirit!


I have a problem with insomnia. I rarely get to sleep before 4am and then I am awake at 7:30am! Then I drag all day, until after 8pm when I am wide awake and raring to go! I want to be able to sleep at normal times. I take over the counter PM medication or melatonine and it does help but by the time I register the need for it, it is already past caring!

I ask the Lord to help me switch things around, but my biological rhythms are so ingrained from about 10 years of this! Any ideas?

 

[Drew]

What should I do?

I suggest that you make every effort to get appropriate treatment for your mental illness.

Please, please, please do not listen to any here who might counsel you to avoid "worldly" treatments. These people are, I suggest, operating on bad theology. More specifically, they think that God cannot, or does not "work" through the instruments of conventional medical science. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you want me to expand further on this, I will. Or you can PM me if you like.

I believe that mental illness is a feature of a fallen world - you are no more responsible for being mentally ill than was a Japanese victim of the earthquake responsible for being born into a fallen world where earthquakes happen.

And by the way, my biggest problem right now (thankfully for me) is that, as a 52 year old, my body is beginning to show signs of wear. I think I know what to do though - the old "diet and exercise" regimen. But if you have other advice, please give it.

 

[Drew]

I ask the Lord to help me switch things around, but my biological rhythms are so ingrained from about 10 years of this! Any ideas?

Do you get enough exercize? If I wear myself out with a 60 minute high speed bike ride, I will sleep much better than if I don't.

 

[Alabaster]

Do you get enough exercize? If I wear myself out with a 60 minute high speed bike ride, I will sleep much better than if I don't.

I'm sorry to say, although I know some good movement will help me, I have a knee problem and for the last 3 months or more, I have been suffering with a case of Plantar Fasciitis, which tends to keep me firmly planted in my chair---hence my frequent visits to CF!

 

[Alabaster]

I suggest that you make every effort to get appropriate treatment for your mental illness.

Please, please, please do not listen to any here who might counsel you to avoid "worldly" treatments. These people are, I suggest, operating on bad theology. More specifically, they think that God cannot, or does not "work" through the instruments of conventional medical science. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you want me to expand further on this, I will. Or you can PM me if you like.

I believe that mental illness is a feature of a fallen world - you are no more responsible for being mentally ill than was a Japanese victim of the earthquake responsible for being born into a fallen world where earthquakes happen.

And by the way, my biggest problem right now (thankfully for me) is that, as a 52 year old, my body is beginning to show signs of wear. I think I know what to do though - the old "diet and exercise" regimen. But if you have other advice, please give it.

Great post and great advice for Oats--and yourself! I can't add to it, except to say, "On yer bike!!!"

 

[Oats]

i'm on medicine, it doesn't work sometimes

 

[jasoncran]

I'm sorry to say, although I know some good movement will help me, I have a knee problem and for the last 3 months or more, I have been suffering with a case of Plantar Fasciitis, which tends to keep me firmly planted in my chair---hence my frequent visits to CF!

ok, you could ask for two things the pads for the shoes with the bump near that part of the tendon or do what i did and this was the only option.

get cortizone shots in that tendon. i did and it cured it. i went from the pulsing and toe curling and sciata to nothing six months later. i am nearly flat footed.

 

[Alabaster]

ok, you could ask for two things the pads for the shoes with the bump near that part of the tendon or do what i did and this was the only option.

get cortizone shots in that tendon. i did and it cured it. i went from the pulsing and toe curling and sciata to nothing six months later. i am nearly flat footed.

That's an idea! Thanks.

 

[jasoncran]

That's an idea! Thanks.

be sure that they give you lanacane in that first, cortozone burns as it goes in and it will hurt for week as they poked a big hole in the tendon but as you walk it moves that around and it heals as the swelling is reduced. i had both feet done.

 

[Alabaster]

be sure that they give you lanacane in that first, cortozone burns as it goes in and it will hurt for week as they poked a big hole in the tendon but as you walk it moves that around and it heals as the swelling is reduced. i had both feet done.

If I go that route, I will be sure of that---thanks! I would much rather command a healing, however.