hi everyone welcome back to therapy and theology and how we can move forward within the hurts that we’re all experiencing in everyday life welcome to my fellow podcaster comrades yes indeed yes so this is Jim kress he’s an amazing counselor my personal counselor and I very much appreciate you and then of course Joel Moodle Molly he’s on staff with us here at proverbs 20:1 ministries and in some sense I guess my personal you know thank you both for joining me today’s topic is something that I personally
wrestle with and so I’m eager to get some free counseling in this session with Jim and joy and I don’t have to pay for it amazing will be your Erin and her and hold your arm so today’s topic is depression and anxiety and of course we could do whole series on both of those words I specifically want to focus in on the anxiety because I feel like sometimes the anxiety is the right now situation of emotional feeling and depression is more of an overall foundational you know angst within my heart and for me I never
dealt with either of these two any long extent in my life to quite the degree that I have to deal with them now and mine has been induced by walking through some pretty traumatic events in my life and for those of you who have been listening to this series you know what those events are for those of you who have not pretty extreme trauma in my marriage which has now been restored and renewed but the lingering effects from some of what we walk through have proven to be harder than what I anticipated and then also facing a near-death situation
with an emergency surgery that I had to have and I wound up in the critical care unit for 15 days and pretty pretty severe medical situation and on top of that facing breast cancer and all of it being in a pretty condensed time period so some could say PTSD you know post-traumatic stress disorder because of you know experiencing something and then there’s lingering effects that come off of that but how it often plays out in my life is through feelings of anxiety and if those feelings of anxiety linger too many days
strung together then this overall feeling of depression can emerge I’m not saying that that’s the way it happens with everyone but that is the way it has happened with me so regardless of the source of the anxiety when those feelings are present it is complicated it’s very complicated because the reality is your life does not hit the pause button when feelings of anxiety is true emerge and so my phone still has a steady stream of text messages coming in people who are depending on me actually expect me to still work my family still
