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August 21, 2005, 8:42 pm PDT

Greetings of Spirit and Life djmatt I hope you go from a third of the time to most or all of the time in the light. Amen and Amen

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The books are basically in my head, but I have started writing them on the computer in the past few weeks.  There are so many issues do be dealt with in this life, and it takes individuals to make up groups.  Sharing ideas and thoughts can open one's mind to a wealth of information that can be beneficial in many ways.  My intentions are to help others,  although I go thru these forceful periods of depression and many epidoes of suicidal thoughts, I want to fight the fight when I am able.  I would say 2/3 of my time is spent in the dark side of thinking, but once I bounce back for a brief period I go head-strong. 

  

I was a minister for a few years when I was younger, but that ended for some reason.  My ministry now is to put new thouhgts and Ideas in peoples minds, and to reach people in a way that is unprecedented.  I want to reach the young men in the terroists groups who have loved ones they are leaving behind when they commit themselves to the suicide bombings, and try to share with them that we are the same.  And that if they were here, and we sat down face to face we would find common interests, and one being the inherent nature of mankind to love a care for oneanother. 

  

Just like many other wars, take WWII for instance, my father fought in the Phillipin Islands against an enemy that had the same fears, concerns, desires and feelings as he did.  My father never fully recovered from the affects of the war.  I am the youngest of seven children, I am 45 now, my father passed away in 2000 a the age of 82. When I was in high school I met an exchange student from Japan who became a very good friend of mine.  I didn't have any second thouhts about bringing him into my parent's home as a visitor and a friend.   After the first visit, my father was shocked that I had invited this individual into our home.  But he was also very kind and hospitable and welcome to the young man who my father later said that it was good to see the changes between us and Japan after the war, and that he could coneive in his heart compassion and a connection to this young man as he had nothing to do with the war anymore than I. 

  

I have watched on the History channel veterans who are still living who meet to commemerate the casualties of the war.  And it brings tears to my eyes to see these men, who once fought against each other in a horrible war of needless pain, suffering and deaths, hugging each other and crying.  How beautiful is that?   

  

The moral to this story is that why have enemies, when we can have friends all over this world.   Why do people need to continue to suffer, when all of these men fighting, regardless of whose side they are on are all GOD's children.  And if they could read each other's minds I firmly believe that each and everyone way say, hey, I never knew you had compassion for me, or I can see that you don't really want to take my life. 

  

There's so much to be said and done.  I am not making any political statements one way or the other about my opinions of our current participation in any wars, just that I think we could all be friends if we could only COMMUNICATE!  And as silly and far-fetched as it sounds, I am writing songs and working on speaches to these affects. 

  

Let each one of us open our hearts to forgivenss and compassion to our "enimies" and let's sing a song to the whole world that we love everyone regardless of thier race, beliefs, etc. Let's sing it loud and clear.  Let's try to touch eveyone by the energy of our souls, and if you meditate for a moment or two, you will feel the energy I have transfered thru this message.  You should have felt this even in the first paragraph.  It's a radiation of energy that is transmitted thru meditation and certain powers vested in certain individuals. 

  

Reach out, breathe, and feel the energy filed that is flooded with the positive things and good of this world.  This is something like you have never experienced.  Place your hand on the screen for a moment, take deep breaths, and close your mind to ALL thoughts, the energy will be passed on to you.  This isn't a gimic or hoax, it's spiritual.  I think Dr. Phil will feel this force as well.  I am not looking for fame or recognition, just being guided by THE SPIRIT as THE SPIRIT speaks to me. 

  

Please excuse any typos. Ask me first as I had carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty heater when 28 and my grammar skills are askew and always a challenge since then (memory loss of left side of brain type stuff). My father was in WWII as well. His buddy was blown up by a bazooka and my father had survivor's guilt because his friend had filled in for dad when dad was sick one night. Dad was brave and when sent back out after being treated for frost bite when he couldn't keep up with others because of his injured feet he refused to be carried and said he knew the way back to camp. Dad said he could get back he just was in so much pain he couldn't keep up. It was a death sentence to walk close together and I think normal was to walk 10 or 20 feet apart. Huddled carrying dad would have been a death sentence. Dad knew it and when he declined being carried they knew it. When dad got to camp he was readmitted due to frostbite. Part of dad's disability was frostbite injury. And dad lived and worked in VA hospitals from the time I was 8 till 18 since my sibling and I were made fun of because of his disability. Dad would have flash backs of being on guard duty and walk up and down the street protecting the neighborhood during PTSD flashbacks as parents frowned and children laughed and pointed. First bluebird meeting my mother had one by one mother's called to say their daughters couldn't come and I don't blame them even though dad wasn't having flashbacks at the time. The bowl of punch and fresh made cookies and yarn for yarn dolls sat on the table untouched with my mother humiliated in front of me since nobody showed up. I was more worried about her than me. She gave up that night and we moved and moved and moved and dad moved in to live in VA hospital working in radiology and as security guard on weekend until I was 18 then he worked in drug and alcohol abuse at Fort Hood until his heart attack. My dad wanted to return to France. He said Queen Elizabeth was in ambulance he was in or at hospital and I saw on PBS she really did do that...ride in ambulances sometimes and go to hospitals to cheer up young soldiers. Dad was In area and time of The Battle of The Bulge, I think.


Did you ever see the movie in 1967, Cool Hand Luke? A famous line "What we've got here is failure to communicate." I agree with you that we still do and it is a worldwide epidemic even felt here.

It would be amazing what this world would have looked like if all the monies for defense by every country had gone instead to refurbish and love the earth and each other. Yet we fight over doctrines and beliefs and war is just one word. And what is war but broken peace.

If instead of gas guzzlers, smaller vehicles were built when scientists first advised in 1980 or sooner. If, if, if... And so it goes... We fear to lose face and create what we fear. We fear we won't have enough fuel and Hummers are created. Why? The definition of insanity is being a danger to self and others. I have never met a sane person...including myself...and we were fools to not make it mandatory to begin environmental precautions when scientists first suggested.

FDR said "there is nothing to fear except fear itself" and even Dr. Phil still echoes this today. Contemporarily speaking, Dr. Phil says, "We create what we fear". We read in Revelations and fear the world will be destroyed and count the days but it is people pushing all the buttons from emotionally to militarily speaking. We blame God and curse each other and it never has solved anything and never will.

One day maybe we all will get into the habit of choosing good or, hopefully, the majority. Emotional and Life skill Education K-12 is a good start. Dr. Phil is taking on worldwide psychotherapy via TV and books. People need only look in the nearest mirror to see where war and peace begin and end. God didn't make puppets and gave us choice and each day we wake up with the choice to choose good. Maybe that day is tomorrow.


I actually did feel spiritual peace in your post. I didn't fall backwards like people do with Benny Hinn but I truly felt that you wrote the words in your post with a spiritual, meditative sincerity. I can and do feel that spirituality and meditative peace you were praying our way. Peace brother... Thank you.


GOD PLEASE REPLY

If ever you reach out in word
And feel like no one heard
To me each post that I see
Are like prayers rising up to Thee

After you left with all your tears
Combined with all your haunting fears
People stopped to read words you left
Sending prayers for you to be blessed

Parting prayers prayed to help you some
So you feel uplifted when here you come
And when no one knows what to say
Now and then know for you many pray

Thus if after you bare your soul
You feel no one heard... not one soul
I wanted you to know I stopped by
Said a prayer for you signed please reply
 
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August 23, 2005, 5:59 am PDT

I hope that you got some rest...

Quote From: djmatt

The books are basically in my head, but I have started writing them on the computer in the past few weeks.  There are so many issues do be dealt with in this life, and it takes individuals to make up groups.  Sharing ideas and thoughts can open one's mind to a wealth of information that can be beneficial in many ways.  My intentions are to help others,  although I go thru these forceful periods of depression and many epidoes of suicidal thoughts, I want to fight the fight when I am able.  I would say 2/3 of my time is spent in the dark side of thinking, but once I bounce back for a brief period I go head-strong. 

  

I was a minister for a few years when I was younger, but that ended for some reason.  My ministry now is to put new thouhgts and Ideas in peoples minds, and to reach people in a way that is unprecedented.  I want to reach the young men in the terroists groups who have loved ones they are leaving behind when they commit themselves to the suicide bombings, and try to share with them that we are the same.  And that if they were here, and we sat down face to face we would find common interests, and one being the inherent nature of mankind to love a care for oneanother. 

  

Just like many other wars, take WWII for instance, my father fought in the Phillipin Islands against an enemy that had the same fears, concerns, desires and feelings as he did.  My father never fully recovered from the affects of the war.  I am the youngest of seven children, I am 45 now, my father passed away in 2000 a the age of 82. When I was in high school I met an exchange student from Japan who became a very good friend of mine.  I didn't have any second thouhts about bringing him into my parent's home as a visitor and a friend.   After the first visit, my father was shocked that I had invited this individual into our home.  But he was also very kind and hospitable and welcome to the young man who my father later said that it was good to see the changes between us and Japan after the war, and that he could coneive in his heart compassion and a connection to this young man as he had nothing to do with the war anymore than I. 

  

I have watched on the History channel veterans who are still living who meet to commemerate the casualties of the war.  And it brings tears to my eyes to see these men, who once fought against each other in a horrible war of needless pain, suffering and deaths, hugging each other and crying.  How beautiful is that?   

  

The moral to this story is that why have enemies, when we can have friends all over this world.   Why do people need to continue to suffer, when all of these men fighting, regardless of whose side they are on are all GOD's children.  And if they could read each other's minds I firmly believe that each and everyone way say, hey, I never knew you had compassion for me, or I can see that you don't really want to take my life. 

  

There's so much to be said and done.  I am not making any political statements one way or the other about my opinions of our current participation in any wars, just that I think we could all be friends if we could only COMMUNICATE!  And as silly and far-fetched as it sounds, I am writing songs and working on speaches to these affects. 

  

Let each one of us open our hearts to forgivenss and compassion to our "enimies" and let's sing a song to the whole world that we love everyone regardless of thier race, beliefs, etc. Let's sing it loud and clear.  Let's try to touch eveyone by the energy of our souls, and if you meditate for a moment or two, you will feel the energy I have transfered thru this message.  You should have felt this even in the first paragraph.  It's a radiation of energy that is transmitted thru meditation and certain powers vested in certain individuals. 

  

Reach out, breathe, and feel the energy filed that is flooded with the positive things and good of this world.  This is something like you have never experienced.  Place your hand on the screen for a moment, take deep breaths, and close your mind to ALL thoughts, the energy will be passed on to you.  This isn't a gimic or hoax, it's spiritual.  I think Dr. Phil will feel this force as well.  I am not looking for fame or recognition, just being guided by THE SPIRIT as THE SPIRIT speaks to me. 

  

Djmatt I know you will know I am saying this since I care so I will continue. I have seen on TV that many tele-evangelists say to put your hand on the TV and to claim blessings etc. I believe in prayer. The only problem is it sounds like you are getting spaced out if you are praying so hard you are feeling emotionally drained and are feeling you have super powers. Correct me if I'm wrong. Sleep might get you back on track but if doesn't I think you should tell your counselor if you have had this happen in the past to where you get way out in left field especially if you are having suicidal thoughts again as when you were caught with rope.

Also, unfortunately, complaining to all the CEO's in your company is just going to make you look like a disgruntled employee even though you have many valid points. If this job makes you that unhappy it serves you no good to project all your disappointments in life onto your boss and company CEO's...get a lawyer or go through EEOC. I am just saying this for your own good.

IF you want to focus on your books and have the money to do so to where you won't be overly distressed for revenue (salary) lost while you write or want to do in your spare time. That is a good thing IF doing so doesn't keep you distressed all the time drudging up haunted stories from your past. Some people can do it others cannot and only you know if you are strong enough to not lose yourself in the pain and be able to function in your present life while writing.

IF you feel a driving force (passion) to help others discriminated against in the workplace. Contact the www.nmha.org to see how you can actively get involved with the prevention of discrimination of workers with emotional illness in the work place. It is best to do this through well established entities since everybody is concerned about retaliation by disgruntled employees becoming violent simply because it does happen. A disaster for disgruntled person's self, family and others when endangers others or self.

I was trying to be supportive of your meditation and prayer but it seems you are taking a step above to thinking you have personal powers that often is accompanied with a need for sleep and/or stress induced etc. and a need to contact counselor if you are unable to sleep. Also, I think isn't good for monitor screen to place hand onto. There are other writers with similar beliefs as yours such as Sylvia Brown www.sylvia.org/home/index.cfm who has been on Montel Williams show quite often and I think is a personal friend of his and some tele-evangelists say to put hand on TV screen or raise hand to claim a blessing. Why not? IF not getting carried away with and you do know many who aren't filled with that much spirit think odd. A lack of sleep can lead to psychosis which in simplest terms just means confusion. You may not be there...I'm just concerned.

I did feel peace in your words because I have read meditation books with similar wording less the part with writer becoming so drained transferring power and how power can be transferred through monitor screen and person feeling has special powers. I thought a good idea for to do for pause and focus to begin with prayer coming here upon first reading. However, I think you are taking it a bit too far and I hope you got some rest and/or contacted your counselor. Especially, if you are hearing voices although you may not be. You sound like a person with a lot of potential who is hurting to the point of suicidal thoughts as you said that alternate to intense aggravation because deep down you know SELF MATTERS includes you. The main person that needs to realize this is you. Check out this link www.nmha.org and if you aren't able to get adequate rest I'd suggest your contacting a doctor today. Racing thoughts is a sign of an possible impending exacerbation of symptoms that sometimes rest can avert and sometimes medical help is needed. You know you best to decide which you need. If I'm wrong tell me as it won't hurt my feelings. I'd just rather speak up than not speak up and I am only taking time to type this because I care and happened to notice. Am I mistaken? What do you think?

Things DO have a way of working out. I hope you got rest and contacted your counselor if necessary because SELF MATTERS includes you and mainly you need to realize that I think and get rest. I hope you did. Best wishes, SEA
 


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