Mental Health Challenges? Try This!

Hello my Hope-full friend!

Do you or someone you love struggle with mental health challenges: depression, anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar disorder, etc? 

Have you or someone you love ever felt like this world would be better off without you? Or maybe that life was too hard to keep going?

Maybe you or someone you love feels like they have messed up too much and that they are...

too imperfect, 

too broken, 

too lost, 

too unlovable—and there is no hope left.

What do you do when you or someone you love feels like this?
Resources for Mental Health Challenges

  • Ganel Lyn knows quite a bit about mental and physical health challenges. Her sister committed suicide and her mother struggled with mental health challenges as well. She powerfully speaks about the importance of learning to accept and be okay with the fact we are each broken and that, “Suicide is really bad exhaustion of the soul.”  Listen to her share these and other tips like having "5 SOS friends" in her podcast episode here: Ganel Lyn Condie: Mental Health Struggles? Try This! You can watch it on YouTube here.

  • The National Institute for Mental Health just launched a brand new Suicide Hotline number in the United States and it is only 3 numbers long: 9-8-8. They even have support groups. If you or a loved one are struggling with mental health challenges or suicidal thoughts, don’t hesitate to call or visit their website. 

  • Are you feeling particularly worn out? Connecting with God by exploring your talents and creating yourself is a powerful way to power-up the soul. Not sure what to try? Listen to this podcast today: Connecting to The Creator While Creating. You can watch it on YouTube here.

  • Listen to my quick interview with a licensed Social Worker about How to Help Loved Ones Struggling with Depression and check out the free downloadable forms she shared about powerful self-care tactics.

Wherever you are with your struggles today, remember God loves you. Jesus Christ said, 

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. (Isaiah 49:15-16)

So, God cannot and will not forget you. You are not alone. You have worth. Jesus expounded,

“Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” (Luke 12:7)

You have immense value to the most powerful being in the universe. 

Keep going. Don’t give up. Connect with others and get help.

Turn to God too. He loves you and will help you.

Hope on!

Tamara

Tamara Anderson