We have to climb out of the Nest of Vipers that is Depression & PTSD.

There was a time when we were as normal as could be, considering we were carrying around demons from our past.

One day, we went for help and were told the problem and solution was that we were mentally ill, we had a mental disorder.

But unlike any normal medical diagnosis, for this to work, we had to fully embrace the diagnosis and fit ourselves to the diagnosis.

This meant not only attending all therapy commitments or taking all the prescribed medications, but if it wasn't working, then the problem lay with us; we hadn't fully committed to the diagnosis, and there would be no clear sign of it working until we embraced it fully.

It was like our condition was a dark pit of snakes, a brood of vipers; man's deadliest mortal enemies; and we were expected to climb into bed with them, and allow them to rule and define us completely.

This meant we had always to keep up appearances; we couldn't have a good day, and God forbid, we couldn't have a good week, there had to be some expression of our condition, no matter how little or minor, for others to know, this was our true reality.

It is so hard to maintain this permanent state of being with the normal people in our lives, family, friends, etc.

It's much easier if we push them all away and invest ourselves in the world of our diagnosis.

But there is a heavy price to pay, because it can feel that there is no way back, and so we search for meaning and purpose in our pain and suffering,

This lie, we start to believe and live, destroys our soul, the very essence of who we are meant to be

We are not meant to find our meaning and purpose in the suffering of our inner child.

That was their meaning and purpose

They were the victim of their pain and suffering

We each are the survivor today, a totally different aspect of the one I AM.

The past is none of our business; we have no valid reason to suffer it in the present.

We must climb out of that dark pit and climb back into the sunlight of the spirit in the present.

This is the truth that shall set you free, all it requires is honesty, open-mindedness & willingness

Honesty to accept your best efforts at embracing that truth isn't working

Open-minded to consider you are not mentally ill, you do not have a mental disorder, rather you have a broken spirit, a spiritual malady, a hole in your soul

The willingness to try something different, something old, something new, to claim the promised miracles of the Bible; to cast out your demons; to quieten the voices in your head; and break free of the bondage of the past by embracing a two-part spiritual solution

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