Thursday, July 24, 2014

The latest on THE BOOK's for those who are waiting

Wow
Its getting exciting as the publisher moves ahead with my book projects. What makes this a little more complicated is that I have  ( 2 ) books being produced at once.

Anyway here is the latest -

1 - Both books are in production and editing . Covers are being designed and many people from different people at TATE publishing on working with me and on the manuscripts 

2- The first book that will be released will be the 12 month devotional called ( DEPRESSION , ANXIETY , and the CHILD OF GOD ) a 12 month daily devotional. I had a chance to see some drafts of the cover- REAL NICE.

3- The second book will be released a short time after the first one which is called ( DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, and the CHILD OF GOD )  a 14 chapter book dealing with and giving you the REAL answers to breaking free from these things and also breaking the Taboos in the Church about mental Illness. We also added  some diary out takes from a young lady which the book is dedicated to.  Both of these books will be nothing like you have ever read before. There will be the real TRUTH not feel good lies but painful truths but truths that will show you the way to joy.

4. The web page is also in the works which in itself will also many links and helps for making it through each day with Depression and Anxiety 

I ask that all of you pray for this book set and the millions who will find peace and new life In Christ through them

S.R. Kraniak

Monday, July 14, 2014

Another teaser sampler of the book - this is a sample of Chapter 10 - AFTER YOU ARE HEALED ( Yes it can happen )

Chapter 10
Simple steps before the leap of faith

2 Peter 1:10 “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:”


Before we get into the simple steps to take to begin the healing process, I first want to speak a little bit about what you must do after you are healed. I know it seems backwards to some degree, but I also believe in praising the Lord for healing before it has even come. That is why I want to begin this chapter with the things you must know and understand after you are healed. This way we are showing the Lord that we know we will be healed and believe it to such a degree that we want to begin preparing for it even before it happens. The Lord likes that kind of faith. So with all that said, let’s look into the (after the fact) of post healing living.
One of the things I enjoy doing is building and rebuilding things. I like rebuilding trucks and cars that are old and beaten up as well as building things out of wood. To take for example something that is rusted, worn-out and falling apart and make it like new is a very fulfilling feat. With anything that requires rebuilding, there must be a counting of the cost and the planning of the process. In restoring an old vehicle you do not paint it before you make sure the engine is first running fine and the undercarriage is sound. This is also the same premise in rebuilding a life torn apart by depression and anxiety. Dear friends the facts are that with radical depression and anxiety it can leave you with a mild to severe case of post traumatic stress disorder commonly referred to as PTSD.  In simple terms, it’s the wounds that might have healed, but have not been forgotten. It is similar to a deep cut or incision from a surgery. The trauma to the body might be past and over, but the scar is forever there to remind you. Scars work two ways, one as a reminder of something you never want to forget or two as a reminder of something you want to forget but can’t. I don’t think that scars forming .............................................stay tuned for the rest when the book is out

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Friday, July 11, 2014

True Confessions from a person dealing with extreme depression and Anxiety- if this is you, then see note at the end

True Confessions from a person dealing with extreme depression and Anxiety




These are the actual 
Words from  the Diary of a young lady in the grips of depression and anxiety and ready to take her life  which recently she did.

Do any of these words sound like you ?

If so - please understand your not alone and God has help for you
Please contact me and lets try together to find the ladder that helps us climb out of this hole

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April 26 
I’m back . I stayed home from school today. I woke up puking , what else is new ?

May  5
Well I’m leaving in about 5 min to go see Ron , my Psychologist. I don’t want to go, There is no point. 

May 19
Things haven’t been so great. I stopped going to Ron. He wasn’t helping. No one can help because no one understands . I don’t know maybe I’m manic depressant , either that or I’m going insane- literally. I cant take it anymore and I wont much longer

May 23
I cant do this anymore. I don’t know what to do to help myself, to make myself happy. Even if I wasn’t happy - at least not so damn depressed all the time. I honestly think I have a problem. No one understands that this has been building up for so long and is so very hard to express



May 24
Today pretty much sucked . I cant seem to shake it off. 8:30pm - what the hell is wrong with me ? I am always worried, paranoid and upset . I wonder if I’ll ever be happy again. I hope so. I wish I knew what it was going to take

May 25th

I have been smoking for about two years now. Its getting really bad. It is literally the only escape I have though . Pot is the least of my worries . Its weird I’ve done so many drugs. I know I’m hurting myself. I think it’s a form of self -punishment . I’m beginning to lose allot of weight, this is bad


August 12

My whole life is falling apart . My parents found my pipe and my Visine. I don’t even feel like getting into it. I’ve been doing “E” its so bad for you , but I really don’t care . Six hours of happiness is a beautiful thing


Aug 11

2 Months ago I got pregnant . I waited  a week until I got the guts up to tell my mom. I decided to get an abortion. I have been trying to get a job . No one understands how hard it is for me. I get extremely nervous around people. From the outside my depression has gotten a little better but still lingers within me. I am still unhealthy self-conscious

August 12

Well I woke up crying again. I feel nauseas, I’m going to lay down. See ya later

August 27

I woke up puking this morning . What else is new. I cant deal with His drinking anymore. 

August 29

I cant deal with anything anymore. I cant deal with being sick everyday of my F…..king life. My Social anxiety holds me back from getting a job. I have no money

Sept 3

I am sick as a dog right now. I woke up at six throwing up. I applied for a receptionist job , I hope I get it. I really need to start making money

Sept 15

I just woke up . Its 7:30am. I woke up puking again. My mom thinks I’m doing drugs. I’m starting this antidepressant called Paxil. Why cant I just be happy without medicine


Sept 26

I really wish to be happy. I have a loot of problems. Problems that are hard for me to understand and deal with. I know things could be a lot worse but to me they’re already at their worst

Nov 7

Yesterday I went to Bath and Body Works for my orientation/interview. It had to have been one of the worst 60 minutes  of my life. I was so incredibly nervous that I made myself sick. I literally had to hold down the vomit the entire time. I came home and puked  and  puked and puked some more. I didn’t stop till midnight. That’s when my parents took me to the hospital . I just want to be normal, healthy, and most of all happy . 







Jan 1st

Last night was New Years eve. It sucked . I was depressed and crying all night . I cant even have fun and enjoy myself anymore. I have to get a job so badly. I just wished  I wasn’t the way I am some times. In fact I absolutely hate myself. I cant live like this. God sometimes I just wished I could be someone else. I feel like I have been cursed .

Jan 9

I’m really hoping everything works out. I need a job. No one understands how it is and what its like. I just want to be happy. God please help me. I want to feel and act normal like everyone else. There has got to be light at the end of this tunnel 

June 20th

Well things aren’t getting any better . Mt life seems like it will never go anywhere . I wish God would help me. If anyone knows exactly how I feel and what I go through each day  its Him. You know its not easy living this way. Sometimes I want to die. I wish I were normal like everyone else. The depression and anxiety has taken over my life. I cant get a job and I’m afraid to go to school. God I’m begging you please help. I feel like my life is never going anywhere unless there is pain and suffering involved. My friend R… committed suicide 4 days ago. He put a rifle under his chin. God bless his soul. 


December 27

Haven’t written in a while, my life still sucks. J. now has a new girlfriend. She has a kid . I hate her. I hate my life. I am so miserable on the inside. I am so pathogenic. I never thought my life would turn out like this. I really don’t have anyone except my mother. I always pictured my life to be different. I look back at pictures , and how I was a happy child. It almost seems surreal.



April 4th a new year

All I want to do is be happy. I don’t think that is too much to ask.  - I almost have everything I need , why cant I just be happy. A clear mind, a clear soul. Wake up in the morning and be happy for my life and grateful for everything. But its not like that. I wake up and its like F---k another day. Life sucks. People don’t understand what its like to actually be unhappy and depressed almost all the time.  Do I ever get a break? I ask myself . One day without stress or bodily pain. 

Nothing ever ceases to escape my mind. I see all. I hear all and sometimes even feel as if I know all. Its such a horrible feeling when you know your abilities, know what your capable of and cant do anything  with it. I feel almost caged in, tied up. I am not able to do the things I wish to. Why me ? As a Child I was not right.. 
My life has become one big effort to avoid it. Sounds weird but makes a lot of sense. Perfect sense. I don’t need medication or a doctor, I need a miracle. Actually just a break. Maybe a little push. They say what doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger, Maybe true. I feel like I am dying emotionally and physically . I am my own best friend. Only I understand myself;. Only I am there to comfort myself and tell me that its going to be ok, its not that bad. 

September  12th another new year

I am so wore out, from the crying, the anxiety. It really takes a lot out of me. If I wasn’t so f…ked up in the head I would be able to have a job and get a new car.  My life is always put on hold because of my screwed up mind and body. I wish I had the ability to go to school and hold a job like everyone else does.  These are normal things that I watch everyone else  around me do. It kills me something’s as simple as that. I’m sick of crying every dam day of my life.







I know I’m going to die young. I actually wouldn’t mind going now. I know that sounds ungrateful but what the hells the point. 7 Years of pure sadness, depression and anxiety. Everyday it never fails. People don’t realize the extent of my sickness.  No one would ever know unless they were able to enter my mind. I cant live like this, feeling inferior , hopeless, etc. I honestly think I would be better off dead. There is no logic to my life.  I shouldn’t have to go thought this. My bodies ready to shut down I cant take no more.

Sept 21

I’m so embarrasses , so ashamed . I feel as if I have to explain myself. Its not my fault- this isn’t my choice. Dam who is stupid enough in the first place to want to live like this. I’ve literally been at the end of my rope for way way too long. - people don’t really understand when your at the point of hopelessness and despair and you feel like you cant be helped.  I cant sit down and talk to anyone heck where do I even start ? 

Jan 3rd another year

I just called the doctor to make an appointment and to refill my prescription. It took me about a week to call. What people don’t understand is that I want help so so badly. Unfortunately people with OCD tend to be very impatient people. I have an unrealistic way of thinking. I tend to have out of this world expectations and catastrophic thoughts .  I willing admit that I need help and medication. My mind is so unpredictable that it is scary . On a daily basis my mind is like a shopping mall packed with people except those people are my thoughts .  One minute I’m thinking  about something, anything and within minutes even seconds I will be thinking  about  something completely horrible and get upset.  It is hard for me to get the thought or image out of my head. The part that scares  me the most is that I am at times completely oblivious to the extreme drifting  of my thoughts . Something literally takes over my mind. Sometimes I find myself literally shaking my head to get the thought off my head . 






People

These are the true words of a young woman who suffered for many years. She ended up taking her life and ending the fight. Yet I don’t want her death and struggle to be wasted. If you are suffering with any thoughts like these. If you see yourself in anyway in this young woman’s mind then please know its not the end. You can get help but you  need to take the time to find the right person to listen  to you and  dissect  your particular situation. Now I cant help everyone out there though I wish I could. Please cry out to God in prayer and then seek help. If I can help I will try myself but being that this BLOG and my books are going all over the world I cant answer all but I will try.  Please dear friend don’t give up don’t listen to the voices in your head but listen to the voice of truth. Jesus Christ

Ps S. R. Kraniak Th.B, M.M.C.C.

But even more a fellow sufferer. 

Email me at - depressionanxietygod@gmail.com 

Keep looking for my 2 book set coming out hopefully at the end of 2014.
Depression, Anxiety and the Child of God. 
Together with one voice and God guiding us  we need to get this message out - the message that millions of people are living a nightmare and no one understands it. Lets let this dear persons story be the last one to give up and the first one to really be heard. It is my goal as a Counselor, fellow sufferer , and Author to get this taboo of mental illness out from under the covers of shame. No one should have to live like this- people, if you know someone like this and don’t understand well maybe this true testimony will open up yours and many others eyes..


Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Please listen to this song

The one song you must listen to if those very dark thoughts are crossing your mind






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3viq8oq-Sfs&feature=kp&safe=active

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

This Suicide solution MUST STOP, as another dear friend believes the lie.



In honor of Jen  P.   
Jan 13th 1982
to
 June 28 2014 
People

I write today to show you how a mess our world is getting. A dear young lady 32 years old took her life. She was a person that I counseled for a few years but was set on taking her life. Depression Anxiety it was too much and she made the one choice there is no coming back from. 
Now friends though I understand suicide because I have been at its dark door a few times myself, doesn't mean that it is the answer by any stretch. Suicide is a lie, a lie that the world is better off without you, that all your troubles could not be fixed or dealt with any other way.
 Though I dearly loved Jen  for her sweetness and person that she was how can I be but disappointed for her actions. She left her family and sister that need her so badly. Being also a minister I also had to perform her funeral which was one I never wanted to do, but............. I say but because Gods will and purpose cant be dwarfed by any power of man. See even though it was not Gods will for her to leave so soon It was His will that others through her death would see that it is not the answer and as they saw at her funeral that Christ is. 
So I praise you Lord for making lemonade out of lemons. For all those young people who came up to me after the funeral wanting to talk about their own pains. About their searching for God and truth. I thank you Lord that hundred of young people heard the Gospel truth, maybe for the first time.
 Lord let not Jens death be wasted but as you have been showing me , let it open up the flood gates for others who never understood depression and anxiety.  As I confessed to all there of my personal encounters with this monstrous lie they were amazed that a person would share such a thing. 
Well in honor of all of those who suffer, have suffered or will suffer - let us all remember that there is hope and a new day. I found it and praise be to God that I can help others. On a side note Jen was waiting for my 2 part books to come out on Depression and Anxiety but sadly she would not make the date. But instead what I am doing is dedicating my books to Jen. A very brave woman for many years but just not brave enough at the end. Oh dear friend and friends out there- let Jens death be the last one we ever hear of. Hold on till the sun comes up . Hold on just one more day and then one more. 

Pastor Scott Kraniak 

We miss you Jen