Do I have a 'right' to be depressed?

Question

Is it a 'sin' against nature, or love, or God, or the Universe (or whatever your beliefs might be)

Answer 1

maybe this will cheer you up. ;)


God Im hurt.
I said God Im hurt.
And god said I know.

I said God I cry a lot.
And God said thats why I gave you tears.
I said God I get so damn depressed.
And God said thats why I gave you sunshine.

I sais God life is so hard.
And God said thats why I gave you loved ones.
I said God my Loved ones dead.
And God said I watched mine nailed to the cross.
I said God your loved one lives.
And God said so does yours.
I said God where are they?
And God said mine is on my right and yours is in the light.

I said God it hurts.
And God said I know

Answer 2

Personally I don't feel I'm sinning, or doing anything wrong if I'm depressed. It's bad enough being depressed, without loading guilt & shame on your shoulders! To me, depression doesn't feel like a choice. Its a bit like waking up in the morning with a stiff shoulder, or having a headache at the end of the day (although depression feels a lot worse.) If Im depressed it's not something I chose. I just have to grit my teeth & bear it until it subsides. So no, I don't see it as a sin any more than I see a headache as one.

Answer 3

Just as much as you have the right to have the flu. As a virus must work it's way out, so must depression. It wants something. There is a way and time in which it has to dissipate. There are channels, tunnels & avenues that need to be gone through in a very exact way in order to be rid of it. Very often it is a form of grief & if you put a quick stop to it either by sheer will or medication it does not get to play out as is necessary. Medication can be a good tool to get a person past desperate patches but, unless it is a permanent chemical imbalance, meds need to be laid aside so the real work of regaining emotional health can begin.

I think the line of 'sin' or something that is anethetical to nature comes in when someone holds on to his/her depression as it were a comforting binky. Some people have it for so long untreated or unrealized that it unwittingly becomes their foundation and they are reluctant to leave it once it is recognized. Quite the slippery slope. Just as it is imcumbent upon us to get better from the flu it is also our job to get ourselves healed from depression. Flu will leave on it's own eventually as sometimes does fleeting depression, but anything lingering requires some work if it becomes tenacious. If you feel bad, just feel bad. It is part of the process. Good days and bad days, my friend. Fight the good fight.

You are in my prayers.

Answer 4

umm...

anyway, i was at work this morning, around 2am or so, and i thought to myself, "wow. i've been working the same crappy job for over a year now, from 9pm to 5:30am, 5 days a week, and then i go to school from 8am to 12:30pm. i get home around 1pm, eat and go to sleep for about 4 hours, get up, make supper, get ready for work, and get at it again. the weekend comes, and i have to spend all the time i have shopping for groceries, doing the laundry, dishes, vacuuming, and any other inane b.s. i don't have time for throughout the week. i barely make enough money to keep my head above the water, but have remained out of any kind of debt, so i have that going for me. i'm 31 years old, society is crumbling, everything costs more than i can afford, socially i don't exist. but really, i can't complain. because there are people who are far less fortunate than i. and if i wanted out of this never ending cycle, i could just walk away, into nothing. disappear. live in the mountains, grow my beard back and just survive. i think i'd be happier. modern amenities just make people angrier, sadder, more impatient. the hell with it. see what i'm saying?

Answer 5

Yes you have a right, but don't be depressed!!
My friend, I've been depressed before many times and I know! Depression has it's own energy pulling yourself toward it, if you use your right and choose the depressive energy take you over, soon you will be totally sucked up. If you have a right to be a slave (literally you do have a right to give up your freedom) would you use your right and be a slave???!!!
You also have right to get out of depression. Use that right!

Answer 6

Why would that be a sin? If anything, if you are feeling bad and if you are a religious person, turn to God, that's what he is there for. To help you through those things. And if you'd like to feel closer to God, reaed Foot Prints. It touches my heart every time I read it.

Answer 7

You have a right to have experienced it, but not a duty to stay there.

We don't get out of these things alone. There is no man on earth that ever achieved anything of worth...and that worth differs from person, without the help of another.

Talking helps, when you can find great listeners, and too many are paid to listen to so few who seek to tell.

Answer 8

GOD, no
anyone can be depressed
god forgives all ur sins if u asked
and if your baptize u have nothing to worry about

Answer 9

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have a right to be depressed...

Seriously, its not a sin, its a medical condition.

Answer 10

how can a simple consequence of life be a sin? i don't think you asked to be depressed, nobody starts being depressed on purpose. it's not something you do, it's something that happens to you.