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The Importance of God's Support for Mental Health Issues
If people are struggling from mental health issues, the one thing they shouldn't feel is that God is disappointed with them or is upset with them or doesn't love them. One of my favorite stories about this in scripture is Elijah calls down fire on the mountain and destroys the hundreds of priests of Baalol. And then the very next passage, Jezebel is out to kill him and he flees for his life. I mean, if that's not a sign of clinical depression in scripture, I don't know what it is. There's many passages of saints who entered what we would now call a sort of depression or an anxious state and God didn't get angry with them and destroy them