Lectio
"Incurable is your wound, grievous your bruise; there is none to plead your cause, no remedy for your running sore, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not seek you. I struck you as an enemy would strike, punished you cruelly; why cry out over your wound? Your pain is without relief. Because of your great guilt, your numerous sins." - Jeremiah 30.
That's how depression can feel. Job and the Book of Lamentations has more insights on it. Sometimes various means of medication do not even help - sometimes depression can be a natural result of our sins which alienate us from God - but not always.
The sacrament of reconciliation does help however. It's a good thing.
Like Paxil and other medications that many people have to take all of their lives, with varying side effects and depression still popping through - you do have to use it (Confession) for the rest of your life however, although there are no negative side effects whatsoever.
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