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liberalnarb

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Fri Oct 21, 2016, 06:20 PM Oct 2016

Coming Back To Faith.

Hi, DU. Its been a long time since I've posted anything on here, that's because I suffer from panic attacks and since late August, I've been suffering from one of the worst panic attacks of my life. Major heart palpitations, irrational worries and thoughts, just shear panic. I'm now on Zoloft medication which is helping, I also take Klonopin in "emergency situations". One thing this awful experience has done is bring me back to my faith. I was raised a Presbyterian Christian but distanced myself from believing over the past few years. Though one day, when I was really feeling down I opened the Bible, did a Google search for Passages about anxiety, and this is what I found:

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.


For some reason, reading that verse gave me a rush of relief. I didn't understand it but I just went with it. I started going back to church and taking part in church activities (building a house with Habitat for Humanity). I'm hoping I fully recover soon. Wish me luck DU.
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