WHY DO FAMILY AND FRIENDS ATTACK YOU WHEN YOU CHANGE?

11 yrs ago when I went through a major depression when my VP had a major stroke, the new VP replaced me with a friend of his, my pay dropped from over $100,000 a yr to $30,000 (he was replaced the next yr because of his treatment of me), I had to go through bankruptcy, woke up one morning and couldn't get up. A few hours later I logged into a major mental health sight, answered some questions, and the diagnosis was that I needed to see a psychiatrist right away.

He diagnosed me as manic depressive and put me on a medical and counseling plan. After that, he warned me that my family and friends would not understand and would reject me. He was right. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PACK OF DOGS ATTACKING A SICK DOG IN THE GROUP?

I have learned more about myself and others through my life experiences. In almost every situation when I have helped people in trouble I have concluded, "I could have done that."

AFTER OVER 30 YRS OF MINISTERING AND COUNSELING WITH PEOPLE I HAVE BEEN TOTALLY CHANGED AND HAVE OVER 100 CASE STUDIES WHERE MY CLIENTS AND MEMBERS HAD SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THEM THAT THEY DROPPED INTO SURVIVAL MODE AND COULD DO NO OTHER. SADLY, SOME DID NOT SEE A WAY OUT, COMMITTED SUICIDE OR DESTROYED THEMSELVES SLOWLY.

HERE ARE SOME SAMPLES:

Recently, a man that was about to lose his house applied to the City Council to rezone his house so that he could have a barbershop in it. Yesterday, they handed down the verdict before him and an audience of about 50 people. They told him, "No," That it would hurt the surrounding property value of adjoining houses. He stood up, stated that they had just put him under, pulled a pistol from his pocket and blew his head off.

When I was working on my Master's Degree at Southern eastern Seminary in Wake Forest I had to go to Dorothy Dix Mental Hospital once a week to learn about what experiences and and mental health can do to people. We visited the criminal ward. There was a young man who had been there for 20 yrs because his father had severely beaten his mother for several years. One night he went out side, got a hatchet and hide it under his bed. The next time his father started beating his mother, he got the hatchet, jerked his father off his mother, split his chest open, cut out his heart, chopped it up and ate it one piece at a time. In over 20 yrs. he has been a model prisoner.

At a church in Charlottesville, Va one of my committed members told me about a relative (her nephew I think) that had been divorced, was a member of a Baptist Church, was considered to be ordained as a Deacon because of his good works and was voted down. She said that he was deeply depressed and asked me to talk with him. I did. For 3 hours he talked about how God had rejected him, that he was going to die and Go to Hell. I mean, I wrestled with him, told Him how much God loved and forgiven him and wanted to use him for good.

God help me, I couldn't turn him. He was in a funnel, spinning down quickly, and I couldn't stop him. I even shared with him some of my grievous sins, how God had forgiven me, and was using me.

He left. I called his aunt, told her to call his Dr., put him in the hospital, sedate and counsel him until he could find some hope.

Well, the Dr. released him after one week. He went home, got his father's shotgun, crawled in his father's bed and blew his head off. OH, IF WE ONLY KNEW THE HURT OUT THERE. ONE OF MY INDIAN FRIENDS TOLD ME, "MACKIE, NEVER CUSS AN INDIAN UNTIL YOU'VE WALKED IN HIS MOCCASINS A MILE."

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