Depression can be crippling, making people lose their excitement for life or will to do anything. I was on Prozac for years to help with my depression, but finally my wife (and God) helped me to get off of it. I feel better -- and more myself -- without Prozac.Some antidepressants can cause people to behave violently or have suicidal thoughts, as was the case with Zyprexa's effect on Kendall Lewis:
'My wife and I had a fight. I got into the car and I started speeding; I remember crying uncontrollably and felt my life was over; I wanted to crash the car and die. But I have always gone to church — if it wasn't for God and if I had continued with Zyprexa, I would have been dead soon after that day. I woke up one morning in prayer, asking God what was wrong with me. I felt that God spoke to me and that I didn't have clinical depression — he told me to throw the pills away and come back to church to serve him. When I opened the bible I read the scripture about oppression: I had spiritual oppression, not clinical depression.'
There can be a lot of pain in life, and evil forces want to cause problems at every turn. The one sure rock that we can rely on to take us through it all is Jesus Christ.
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