At Revive Our Hearts, one topic comes up a lot when we get letters from listeners, and that's depression.

He's not a wild drunk. It's just that the drinking affects his health. He's always tired, depressed, and just on comfort in food when depressed.

And having suffered depression, you can imagine that... It's just not easy being a wife and a mother.

I get depressed and come down hard on myself because I feel like such a family.

I was in a one-bedroom apartment. I had my two boys with me.

I went through with it and I never felt so depressed.

I'm depressed all the time.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday, November 30th. A lot of times when someone's depressed, the immediate solution is medication, right?

Well, the issue isn't that simple, according to our guests. We'll

meet a woman who did get on antidepressants, and we'll find out what she thinks of them now.

Before we start today's message, let me tell you what you're not going to hear. We're not telling anyone to get off of medication for psychotic disorders.

We are not telling anyone to get off of antidepressants immediately without a doctor's supervision.

What we are suggesting is maybe antidepressants are being prescribed too often, too quickly. Here's Nancy to introduce our guests.

Well, it's not often that we have four of us here in the studio talking together on Revive Our Hearts, and so we've had quite a bit of technical crew in here setting up mics,

and we also have 35 or so women here in the studio with us today

talking about this subject of medicating emotional pain which as you know is a very common practice in

our culture and we're trying to get a biblical perspective God's way of thinking about depression

about emotions and about this whole movement to medicate

emotional pain. So I'm joined today in the studio with my friend Elise Fitzpatrick, who with co-author

Dr. Laura Hendrickson, has written a very helpful book called Will Medicine Stop the Pain?

And in this book, they deal with God's perspective on depression, anxiety,

and other troubling emotions. Now, we're also being joined today by two other friends,

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