Here's Elise Fitzpatrick, getting honest about real life and emotions.

I think one of the problems that we have is that we have a belief, perhaps among us as Christians,

that we're not ever supposed to feel bad.

You see, if you have the Lord, then you ought to be joyful all the time.

But that's really not the picture that we have in the Bible of anybody who was walking with the Lord.

It's Friday, December 1st, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Yesterday, Yesterday we heard from Kathy Weiler on how getting treated for headaches turned into a dependence on antidepressants. I was going to doctor after doctor after doctor and one put me on an antidepressant because

none of the other medications that they tried were helping with my headaches.

So it was at that point that they put me on an antidepressant.

People are given antidepressants even when they're not depressed.

That's Elise Fitzpatrick, who we also heard from yesterday.

She's the author of, Will Medicine Stop the Pain?

What usually happens is that an antidepressant is prescribed,

and perhaps for a short period of time, the person feels better because there's a placebo effect,

and other times the person may feel better because they actually do feel better from the medicine. But after a very short period of time, usually,

the effects of the medicine tend to poop out, and then you have to up the dosage of the medicine

and then add other meds, which Kathy, I understand,

is what happened to you.

We also heard from Holly Elleth, who helped Kathy deal with some issues of unforgiveness

that hadn't been dealt with in the first place.

She began to make choices to forgive those things, to realize that that root was there and then to choose forgiveness

rather than control. And so she had spent years trying to control those things and keep them

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