Hi there,
So I just developed a technique, which can put you in touch with God's Grace. For background, I have both ascertained that laughing at your cure can bring you closer to being well and that allowing God to share your struggle - within you - can ease the suffering of dealing with mental health issues. What I have now learned, is to make mental health (madness) lighter to deal with. The technique is very simple.
The technique is, that you focus on something that you know is driving you mad (like an addiction to McDonald's), but instead of coming to the conclusion "that's the madness" or "that's driving me mad" what you can do is slow down a little, keep from trying to end the madness and just wait for God to make an adjustment, to how you view that madness. The point is that "madness is not a sin, if you can't live without it" but equally "madness can't be endured, if there's no way to endure it consistently". What I am saying is "God can help you endure madness consistently" (let Him decide how it's interpreted in the end?)
Now, I have said elsewhere in this forum (I think?) that sometimes it's not the addiction that is the problem, but the madness that goes with it. That also holds true here: what you need to learn to do, is reduce the overall burden of what you expect out of life - including madness - so that the pressure to respond or evolve or adapt or whatever, is something you can live with more easily. You have to be able to function with madness, but you don't have to add to madness to get it to function. God will step in. Let God step in. Wait, until you are clear roughly where God can step in, and then let God step in. This is something you can practice.
The Bible says "those that wait on the Lord, clean themselves up" (letters, from memory); what you need to do, is let God polish you a little. Your madness will still be there, but it will be less rushed, less antagonistic. I hope this has been of some help.
God bless.
So I just developed a technique, which can put you in touch with God's Grace. For background, I have both ascertained that laughing at your cure can bring you closer to being well and that allowing God to share your struggle - within you - can ease the suffering of dealing with mental health issues. What I have now learned, is to make mental health (madness) lighter to deal with. The technique is very simple.
The technique is, that you focus on something that you know is driving you mad (like an addiction to McDonald's), but instead of coming to the conclusion "that's the madness" or "that's driving me mad" what you can do is slow down a little, keep from trying to end the madness and just wait for God to make an adjustment, to how you view that madness. The point is that "madness is not a sin, if you can't live without it" but equally "madness can't be endured, if there's no way to endure it consistently". What I am saying is "God can help you endure madness consistently" (let Him decide how it's interpreted in the end?)
Now, I have said elsewhere in this forum (I think?) that sometimes it's not the addiction that is the problem, but the madness that goes with it. That also holds true here: what you need to learn to do, is reduce the overall burden of what you expect out of life - including madness - so that the pressure to respond or evolve or adapt or whatever, is something you can live with more easily. You have to be able to function with madness, but you don't have to add to madness to get it to function. God will step in. Let God step in. Wait, until you are clear roughly where God can step in, and then let God step in. This is something you can practice.
The Bible says "those that wait on the Lord, clean themselves up" (letters, from memory); what you need to do, is let God polish you a little. Your madness will still be there, but it will be less rushed, less antagonistic. I hope this has been of some help.
God bless.
