Greater Friendship Baptist Church FFF
Dr. Derrick L. Miles, Pastor
The Anxiety and Depression Beneath It All
- I mention depression occasionally because _______________________is real.
2. You can be depressed with a_______________________iin your lap.
3. If you are fortunate, you will be able to _______________________iwhen you are having some depressive episodes. (If you feel this way, take it seriously!) I Kings 19
4. Feelings of depression can challenge your psychological fortitude, which leads to
_______________________.
5. Anxiety and depression often _______________________.
6. We have take a real look at ourselves when things _______________________ us or our loved ones. Matthew 17:15-16 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
7. _______________________can get out of hand. Job 23:3-5 If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling! I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say to me.
8. We will have _____________________________________________ianxiety, but when it does not leave, it is a signal that something is wrong.
9. This can cause you ______________________ in other areas of your life.
10. There are times we ______________________ our emotional health as much as we do our physical health. (When we break something on our bodies, we go and see about it.)
11. Be careful how you ______________________things to worry about.
12. There are physical signs of anxiety that mental health professionals call panic disorder. Such as racing heartbeat, heart skipping a beat, shortness of breath, a choking feeling, nausea, dizziness or a sense of being disconnected.
13. As African Americans, we have ______________________over way more things than a lot of races. For instance, getting pulled over by a police at night.
14. I call it the ______________________ while black anxiety.
15. There are ______________________in society that will give you plenty of reasons to worry.
16. Clinically speaking, experts say that your emotional ______________________should be in proportion to the stressful situation.
16. We have to guard our minds so we will not let society ______________________us out. Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
17. Do not allow yourself to ______________________. It is unhealthy to be upset about something and keep playing it over and over in your head.
18. Do not allow yourself ______________________________________. Don’t be afraid of crowds.
19. Do not allow yourself to be ______________________. Always thinking it is something wrong with you and you want to stay in the house and not work but be on disability.
20. Do not allow yourself to be overrun with ______________________. ( Such as snakes, bridges, airplanes…)
21. Do not allow yourself to be ____________________________________________. (OCD) is a mental health condition characterized by intrusive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors
22. Do not become an ______________________media consumer. Media with all its depressing stuff can mess with your mind.
23. The struggle can be ______________________. Mental Health professionals want to know what family traits and patterns when it comes to health.
24. We can also inherit ______________________ or a predisposition that is triggered by a stressful situation.
Shifting Our Anxious Perspective towards Positive Change
25. Recognize the ______________________. Always remember I can’t change the past. Philippians 3:13-14 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have [a]apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus
26. You can decide to ______________________ today, or you can decide not to change at all. Either way, you are making a decision.
27. If you tell yourself that your fear of something makes you feel ______________________, you are putting undue pressure on yourself.
28. If you tell yourself you can’t get ______________________ it, chances are you will not.
29. Depression is different when we look through ______________________ lenses.
30. Struggles in ______________________affect how your body copes now.
31. Stress is not just in your______________________, it harms your whole being.
32. There comes a point in time you have to look at the ______________________in your life.
33. We must ______________________ to ourselves at times that we must deal with some things.
34. We must______________________our psychological fortitude. Philippians 5:2 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
35. Some things are our of your control, but a ______________________ of things are in your control.