What a day in OUR life is like...LIVING THE NIGHTMARE

No one knows what its like....

Walk a mile in my shoes before you tell me to smile !

1. Waking up is like opening your eyes each morning to a world on fire. Its loud scary and sends chills down your spine. You can think or move as fear grips you on every side.
2. Cold sweats / Hot sweats , Nausea and a sick stomach . Sometimes it leads to vomiting and bathroom trips.
3. Thoughts running through your mind its like trying to catch fire flys swarming you every step you take.

Thanks just getting up..

1. Then its trying to get out of the house. but first you have to get out of the bed. The covers and pillow are your only friend and you dont want to leave them.
2. Sleep is your drug and its a sleep that never lasts long enough. You chase it like chasing the wind and its gone before you can hold onto it long enough.
3. So you talk yourself into getting up and into the shower. You look at yourself in the mirror and cant believe what you have become. You see the lifeless look in your face and eyes and remember when you were a child with joy.
4. You climb into the shower and just let the water pound you like needles running all over you soul. You dont want to leave that brief moment of fleeting pleasure but you know it must end.
5. Next its getting dressed and wondering whats the point of even looking good.. Style and dress no longer matter as you put on your clothes which are either now too big or too small. depends if you stopped eating long ago or cant stop.
6. Then comes facing that front door and the fears of what is out there- oh not monsters and danger -no they dont scare you. no its the fears of talking to people, interacting and dealing with life issues like work and driving and being in public
7. Then there is your family and friends which each day you must play the game of fake smiles and small talk. waiting for the same old questions and comments . Ones like: are you ok ? How are you feeling ? Why not try to shake it off or cheer up- you have so much to live for and your so wonderful. Why dont you just snap out of it.
8. Then there are the secret whispers you hear behind each door - Oh she or he just doesnt want to face life, they are lazy and playing us all for our sympathy. Their just playing the system so they dont have to work, they just done want to try . They are feeling sorry for themselves and want us to buy into their pity party.

And thats just the day time....

But there is a high side which we dream of...

Its coming home and getting there as fast as we can.

running to our bed and waiting for night to fall so sleep can captivate us again.

The Night is our solace and joy

And lets not forget about the days long pondering of ways to take your life.

Maybe just turning into an oncoming car or jumping into traffic.

Thought after thought of how our end would show them how real this is..

So dont tell us to snap out of it...you know not what one minute of my life is like..

Dear friends -

I know the day in the life of one dealing with Depression and Anxiety.

I know every single ugly inch of it but I also know the other side...

BEATING IT !!!

You can but not alone- 

Christ is what Christ Offers - PEACE , JOY, SAFETY, and NEW LIFE

Please call out to Him today and He will hear you...Ask Him to take control, save your soul forgive your sins ,and become Lord of all in your Life.

2 Tim 1:7  For God has not giving us the spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind

Please check out my 2 Books

Depression anxiety and the child of GOD Pt 1 and Pt 2

Get them on Amazon

America’s suicide rate increased by 25% between 1999 and 2016 - WHY ?

America’s suicide rate increased by 25% between 1999 and 2016

THIS month, the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) released a report suggesting that America’s suicide rate increased by 25% between 1999 and 2016. The climb is from a historic low at the turn of the millennium and American suicide rates overall are still not significantly above those of other high-income countries.  Nonetheless, World Health Organisation estimates suggest that out of its 183 member countries the United States had the seventh largest percentage increase in suicide rates between 2000 and 2016. Every suicide can have multiple causes, and the CDC does not offer a simple explanation for the rise. But other research suggests that one factor behind the rising suicide rate is an erosion of the privileged status of white men.

Nearly 45,000 Americans took their own lives in 2016, and suicide is an important part of the rising number of “deaths of despair” (also including drug overdoses and liver disease) described by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, economists. These causes of death have increased the overall mortality rate amongst white men without a college degree. Both absolute levels of suicide per 100,000 people and recent increases are particularly high amongst those aged between 45 and 64. The male suicide rate remains almost four times that for women, and suicide rates for whites are higher and have been climbing faster than those for other racial and ethnic groups. 

Relative status over time appears to play a role in suicide trends. The relationship between average income and reported suicide rates across countries is weak, but inequality, recessions and unemployment are all associated with higher rates. Rising unemployment during the financial crisis was associated with increased suicide rates across Europe, for example, even while it was associated with reduced overall mortality. In America, work by Mary C. Daly and her colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggested suicide risk rises for individuals when they see their income decline relative to the average in their county. Ms Daly has also found that richer countries in which citizens report higher average subjective well being or happiness see higher suicide rates and the same is true across America's states. Discontented people in a happy place may feel particularly harshly treated by life, they suggest. 

The link between erosion of relative status and suicide may also involve gender and race. A 35-country study by Allison Miller of Griffith University and colleagues suggested rising female labour force participation is associated with increased male suicide rates. Carol Graham and colleagues at the Brookings Institute find that controlling for factors including income, gender, marital status, education and employment, whites are considerably less optimistic, report lower life satisfaction and more worry and stress than Latinos and blacks. They also find an association between deaths of despair and these subjective wellbeing measures.  The researchers argue that one factor behind their results may be that poor whites have fallen in status in relative terms, so that they are doing worse or no better than their parents while poor minorities have still seen some progress even if they remain disadvantaged.  “The combination of fear of downward mobility, weak safety nets, and eroding social cohesion likely contributes to the high levels of desperation,” they suggest.

What can be done? The CDC suggests that a range of interventions can lower the suicide rate. These include better coverage of mental health conditions in health insurance and treatment for people at risk alongside reduced access to lethal means amongst that population—not least, guns, used in 49% of suicides. But given that more than half of suicides involve people not diagnosed with a mental health condition, the CDC suggests the need for a greater focus on “non-mental health factors further upstream” including causes of financial distress. That suggests that a strengthened safety net alongside improved insurance coverage might help both the old poor and the new hopeless cope better. 

Or what about this....THE PEACE THAT ONLY OUR CREATOR CAN GIVE IS MISSING>>>>

We have REMOVED GOD from OUR LIVES and SO REMOVED PEACE FROM OUR HEARTS

NO PEACE = NO JOY

this is FACT !

ITS TIME NOW TO COME TO CHRIST 

John 3:16

Call out to GOD , repent for our ways...except Christ as LORD

Give our hearts to Him and except His forgiveness and new life that came on the Cross and through His Blood for us and His Resurrection to a NEW LIFE 

Please CALL ON HIM NOW...

TAKE MY POLL...Lets get the ball rolling...Please help me help other

Dear friends and fellow sufferers 

Lets start a dialog -

1> What is your  greatest issue (D or A)

2> What is your worse days (M T W T F S S)

3> What is your hardest times ( AM or PM )

4> Meds or no meds 

5> How long have you been dealing with this 

6> What is your greatest help from 

7> How many of you believe in God 

8> How many have tried to take your life

9> What is a trigger for you 

10> How many think they will ever get better

If you CAN'T MAKE IT....you may be right

What do we do when we face the facts that

I can not get out of this hole ?

Well

Maybe that's the place where the answer comes

This podcast below is for those who are tired of people telling you...

Just try harder

Your not using will power

You are hiding behind your depression

If you really wanted to get out of this funk you could

well to those people

YOU CAN'T ,

but.............

Please listen to podcast below

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My Apology Tour TV Show...stopping world depression and anxiety for maybe a little while

Not my typical blog....

but,,,

It might just get this world from

going so bad that we all end up Depressed and Afraid..

Please click on my new Youtube TV Show

and Maybe- just maybe we

can atleast find some common ground to live without so much hate and evil..

For Just a little while longer....

If you like it...please pass it around

Maybe its a foolish idea but worth a try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZlBY1q5LZs&t=204s

TEEN SUICIDE OUT OF CONTROL

Teen suicide is soaring. 

…The suicide rate for white children and teens between 10 and 17 was up 70% between 2006 and 2016, the latest data analysis available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although black children and teens kill themselves less often than white youth do, the rate of increase was higher — 77%. A study of pediatric hospitals released last May found admissions of patients ages 5 to 17 for suicidal thoughts and actions more than doubled from 2008 to 2015.

Please check out my books on this horrible problem

Go to AMAZON and look for

Depression Anxiety and the Child of God

Pt 1 and Pt 2 The Devotional

by

Scott Kraniak 

or ask for it at your local book store

Seasonal Depression is a very real thing…

Seasonal Depression is a very real thing…

So are you suffering with depression ? Do you feel worse in the winter then the summer ? Do sunny days make you feel better and cloudy days make you feel worse ? Does the cold bring you down and warm weather make you feel better? Even wind can be a downer . If this makes your depression worse then your not alone...millions of people who are not dealing with depression feel down at these times so we can imagine how we feel in these season changes… Also suicide rates are the highest between Jan through March… If you live in parts of the world where this type of weather is common like cold and rain..well your depression is even higher.. People in Russia with the cold and long winters have very high rates of depression .. In the USA people in states like OR and WA also have very high rates of depression...some of those states because they are so rainy leave a bowl of chocolate on the kitchen table to help.. BTW dark chocolate is the best for depression ( mild) . So whats the up side as not everyone can move to a tropical Island.. well history tells us that great thinkers, writers, poets, musicians , song ,writers, painters, artist often come from cold, raining, cloud dark places..see these dark places draw out the deep inner person. Very few people are as deep in the sun as we in the dark.. So if your trapped in these dark seasonal places...well write a poem, a book, a song, pain, get into art work. Counsel people for only ones who know these dark places can help others in the same dark places.

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success and though the rain and storm clouds are in your life today… the sun ALWAYS rises. I pray that not only the Sun shines on you but that the Son lives in you. He gives light in the heart even when there is no sun in the sky…

S.R.K.

March 11^th 2018

1. NOTE – take plenty of Vitamin D...it is whats in the sun that makes us feel up...