DEPRESSION| GIVING| SACRIFICE
HOW TO OVERCOME DEPRESSION
Giving is an unimaginable way of freeing oneself from depression
An American motivational speaker once told a story of how she overcome a life-threatening depressive situation in her life.
Pardon me I could not get her basic Identity. Nevertheless, her testimony speaks volumes.
I have also experienced some of the positive effects she had graciously shared via an audio platform. I could therefore relate to/with what she correctly stated.
- Giving your way out of depression: ➡️ Giving [unconditionally] is a positively mysterious means of overcoming the deadly monster called depression.
- Give to those who could not pay you back: ➡️ Definitely, it is one thing to give: it is another to give irrationally. When you do that, the effects are therapeutic. The folks usually feel some unspeakable joy that returns to you relieving the burdens and pains you could have been going through.
- You do not give to impress anyone. ➡️ You give because there is a need. The things might not be expensive but because they are from the heart, they are incredibly efficacious.
- Give from what you could afford. ➡️ It might not [necessarily] be money or high-profile materials. It could indeed be old clothes, shoes and other general personal wears you are no longer using.
- It could be household stuffs that someone out there is completely in dire need of. ➡️ Do not get it twisted. There are some households that shockingly do lack basic cooking tools. Others do not have basic cutlery and serving utensils. Whenever they want such things, they borrow from their neighbors. (This is common here in some parts of Nigeria.)
- Giving is a unique moral, spiritual, noble and emotional ministration. ➡️ There are people whose personal experiences have disappointingly convinced them to end it all. Do not be surprised. There are those on an invisible “suicide queue” already. You might never imagine what difference “a-twenty-dollar ($20)" gift (or its equivalent) might make to them.
- There is a strange power in giving. ➡️ A Nigerian multibillionaire, Femi Otedola was reported to have shared this. He had sort of decided to be part of a visitation team to a physically challenged people’s home. (I guess his foundation distributed some wheelchairs.) He confessed to have seen real joy that those folks expressed (irrespective of their physical conditions) as they were receiving a unit of the wheelchair each. That unprecedentedly touched him rather close to tears of joy which he never had imagined existed.
- Giving reveals a certain measure of “Divinity” in humanity. ➡️ Once, this writer was immensely touched by a rash attitude of a youthful mother [and a byproduct of a broken marriage]. (She couldn’t listen to anyone.) She was in the habit of abandoning her kids warmless — despite the cold rainy atmosphere. He had such an unusual courage to take care of the vulnerable toddler twins. Washed and clothed them. There was this spontaneous goosebumps all over him even as people watched with mixed reactions. Days later, he got an amazing gift of a valued connection of a lifetime.
- Our purpose is revealed in giving. ➡️ We might have had a difficult challenge in realizing what our earthly purpose is all about. This is no doubt the foundation of frustration for many. Do this as a piece of gainless experiment: give out anything sacrificially for a period of thirty (30) days, if you can. Watch out the result. It is not scientifically proven. It is spiritually confirmed. Your purpose of existence would become clearer than a plasma-television picture.
- Depression is often due to too heavy weight of excess luggages. ➡️ The only way to get rid of too much weight of loads is to reduce the loads. Ever heard of seamen discarding certain items from a sinking ship? That helps the ship to feel lighter and able to remain afloat in order to continue and successfully complete her journey.
Take this for free. Many leaders of developing countries stock millions of dollars at the ‘detriment’ of their own health. While their numerous compatriots cannot boast of one-square meal a day, they jet out of their countries to treat a mere ‘headache’. They are the cause of their own depression.
Permit me to mention a number of these great ministers here. Some of them might not know how much role they have played in this great ministry of writing and reading. But it is simply amazing:
Mike Sansone Ik Ngene Midnight Young E.A. Colquitt Joy Yvette Love Deidra Chapman Aderonke Oyinade Ajuwon Mary Ann Writes Mary Acton Ignacio Kuchuk HABEEBAH OYEDOKUN Kat Brancato Jason Provencio ✅ Doc Samurai Sam 🍿 Velvetstar64 Rexia Phoenix Eva Joy Freda Savahl Homto Dokpesi AyoO Frankie Pendles Sílvia PM, PhD 🍂 , et al …
May you all be blessed.
Thanks for reading.
Read this related story, thanks. ⬇️
https://medium.com/@chineduonyema2324/kindness-pays-80a2c89cd4b8
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