Is anyone else struggling with mental health issues right now?

I struggle with it from time to time, i hear voices. Medication works and so does prayer, it keeps it at bay. I also massage my brain because the voices i hear constantly curse me and give me a really bad headache.

Its Easter Sunday....a day that, going back to my earliest days, has always been incredibly special...for different reasons at differnt times.

My wife suffers from schizophrenia....she doesn't hear voices or see things that aren't there, for her in manifests itself in delusional thoughts, thoughts that are impossible but very real to her. This morning it was invisible people coming into the house, and anger directed at me because I'm having an affair with one or more of them.

As with many mental health conditions, stress can be a trigger....and life is anything but easy right now. And I'm feeling worn out....like a casuality in the fight against coronavirus. Nobody complains that Amazon is probably going to have a record year, with its 10s of thousands of employees going in and out of their fulfillment centres 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. All those employees complaining that social distancing is impossible, and that the only PPE being used is by those who bring their own in....and they likely haven't even been trained to use it properly.

I'm blessed in many ways, we have 2 cars and I've decided that when my wife wakes from the nap she's taking...that she and our 6 year old are going for what will hopefully be a stress relieving drive. It goes against the advice of the authorities who are suggesting here, that all travel should be restricted that which is absolutely essential.

Any thoughts, prayers or advice...or simple fellowship would be appreciated.

Ya, go for the drive. Going for a drive is a simple easy way of spending time together as a family , and thats more important than whatever else is going on outside your world. She and your child are your world and you as priest of the family are responsible for your and their best interests. Maybe plan a stop at an ice cream parlor as a celebration of your family just being together.
I know from experience that mental illness is a terrible pressure on a family, but I also know that God is on your side and is looking to bless your honest efforts at strengthening your family. I’ve already prayed about your situation as one who knows what you’re going through , and know that God is able. Expect good things brother.

I struggle with it from time to time, i hear voices. Medication works and so does prayer, it keeps it at bay. I also massage my brain because the voices i hear constantly curse me and give me a really bad headache.

I struggle with it from time to time, i hear voices. Medication works and so does prayer, it keeps it at bay. I also massage my brain because the voices i hear constantly curse me and give me a really bad headache.

I struggle with it from time to time, i hear voices.

Medication works and so does prayer, it keeps it at bay.

I also massage my brain because the voices i hear constantly curse me and give me a really bad headache.

If the Believer Faith is not placed and maintained exclusively in Christ and His Finished Work at Calvary Cross where the victory was one, the help of the the Holy Spirit stops because grace is being frustrate. Christ has become of no benefit to that Believer. In other words, you get to take care of you.

Which scripture are you referring to?

Romans 8:2, Gal. 2: 20-21, Gal. 5:2

Thank you for the kind words...it has been a while and thankfully things are going well. I was given a leave of absence from work back in April and into early May because my wife did end up having a breakdown on Easter Monday and had to spend some time in hospital. Thankfully she was released after 8 days....her doctors said she wasn't fully recovered, but that her recovery would likely go better at home than in a hospital with all the Covid protocols.....and since then things have been much better.

We've settled into something of a routine....which is hard given my schedule rotating between day and night shifts. There's a church in town conducting outdoor worship, it's not our home church but that's fine....just hearing The Word spoken aloud and the music lifts my spirits.

Be well all.

Well, it sounds more like a case of John 5:25.



If you are receiving medication then that means you also have access to professional assistance. Good, follow their directions and keep your appointments.

Of course you probably already know that it will very unlikely that they are going to acknowledge a belief in the LORD much less that the LORD can actually communicate with man since the the consider that the audible word requires a sound wave which would be necessary to transfer data from the one living being to another living being.

However, in their reasoning if the sound wave is generated by the vocal anatomy of man's flesh then in their understanding there is no source for the motion of the sound wave then there is no audible word and if there is no audible word then we must have had an auditory hallucination.

While sound might require the motion of air molecules to be heard, the word doesn't. They can click on the link if they can't perceive the difference between the audible and the auditory.

It can be quite intense can't it?

While 'fear' is used in Job 4:14, I think 'terror' better describes the experience.

So how long have you been hearing voices of constant cursing, you might consider Duet 4:39.

Unfortunately, he fell into the trap of thinking he wasn't a good Christian, because his brain wasn't working properly. Well, he has some terrible things that happened in his past, too

I struggle with it from time to time, i hear voices. Medication works and so does prayer, it keeps it at bay. I also massage my brain because the voices i hear constantly curse me and give me a really bad headache.