Depression and Anxiety

Things have been going a little weird for me lately. I am trying to be optimistic like some of my friends have told me to be, but I just feel downright depressed. I know many of you struggle with the same things, so here is a post on depression. Hopefully by the end of this post I will feel better and you will too.
Psalms 42:11 says, "Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation, and my God." 

This is a really good verse. Why am I so depressed? I have so many things to be thankful for!
It is not a sin to be depressed. Depression can result in sinful actions, but being sad is not a sin. Jesus loves you though, he doesn't want to see you so sad. 
One of the other things that often associates with depression is anxiety. So many kids, teenagers, and adults struggle with anxiety. Whether they are worrying over how they are going to finish an assignment, cope with splitting parents, or how you are going to put food on the table, we all struggle with it. I have struggled with anxiety the past couple of weeks. I don't know how or when I am going to graduate or how I am going to afford college. But remember this, if you are like me. The Lord will be with you always. He will not leave you or forsake you! Even if you feel like He is not there, He is there! His Presence is shadowing you with a never stopping, never giving up, always and forever love. One last thing,
Matthew 6: 25-34 show what Jesus says about this.
Do Not Be Anxious “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

This is a really good verse. Why am I so depressed? I have so many things to be thankful for!
It is not a sin to be depressed. Depression can result in sinful actions, but being sad is not a sin. Jesus loves you though, he doesn't want to see you so sad. 
One of the other things that often associates with depression is anxiety. So many kids, teenagers, and adults struggle with anxiety. Whether they are worrying over how they are going to finish an assignment, cope with splitting parents, or how you are going to put food on the table, we all struggle with it. I have struggled with anxiety the past couple of weeks. I don't know how or when I am going to graduate or how I am going to afford college. But remember this, if you are like me. The Lord will be with you always. He will not leave you or forsake you! Even if you feel like He is not there, He is there! His Presence is shadowing you with a never stopping, never giving up, always and forever love. One last thing,
Matthew 6: 25-34 show what Jesus says about this.
Do Not Be Anxious “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
This is a really good verse. Why am I so depressed? I have so many things to be thankful for!
It is not a sin to be depressed. Depression can result in sinful actions, but being sad is not a sin. Jesus loves you though, he doesn't want to see you so sad. 
One of the other things that often associates with depression is anxiety. So many kids, teenagers, and adults struggle with anxiety. Whether they are worrying over how they are going to finish an assignment, cope with splitting parents, or how you are going to put food on the table, we all struggle with it. I have struggled with anxiety the past couple of weeks. I don't know how or when I am going to graduate or how I am going to afford college. But remember this, if you are like me. The Lord will be with you always. He will not leave you or forsake you! Even if you feel like He is not there, He is there! His Presence is shadowing you with a never stopping, never giving up, always and forever love. One last thing,
Matthew 6: 25-34 show what Jesus says about this.
Do Not Be Anxious “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.