Is there an instant pill or a quick fix for depression or anxiety? Probably not, but there is help, and improvement can occur in a short period of time in many cases.
When people are sad, depressed, or anxious, they often feel something is wrong with them. In actual fact, the focus does not need to be on what could be wrong with the person, but rather on the person’s thought patterns. Where there is depression and anxiety, we can be fairly sure, there are some very negative and self-defeating thinking patterns going on.
The mind is a powerful thing. Yes, there is power in the mind.
A depressed or anxious person often has POWERFUL thoughts, but they are thoughts that weaken, and can even bring about poor health and poor relationships. So thoughts need a right direction.
What most likely needs to be “fixed” is a person’s way or habits or patterns of thinking. Today this “fixing” is called cognitive restructuring.
People who are truly depressed, or are often depressed, or are frequently anxious, are generally people who have failed to find out how to effectively use the power of the mind. Why is this so?
Many people have never been taught that they can actually control many of their thoughts. Even thought patterns that a person has had for many years, maybe even from early childhood, can be restructured into positive and more effective thought patterns.
True believers have access to the real answer to depression and anxiety, as they now let the BIBLE SPEAK.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things