Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00170A
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00:01 I feel that I'm in a dark room
00:02 and I just can't get out. 00:04 I see there's a blanket of fog that's hovering 00:07 over me blocking the clear sky and I just 00:11 cannot reach through the gloom 00:12 piercing the sky. Well, today if that's 00:15 your feeling the program is entitled Depression: 00:19 Unveiling the Culprits, so stay by. 00:50 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living, 00:52 I'm Curtis Eakins and I would like to 00:53 introduce my wonderful bride of 00:56 well over 13 years, Paula Eakins. 00:58 How are you doing today, honey? 01:00 I am doing wonderful. 01:01 You're looking wonderful too. 01:03 Praise Him. Praise Him. Alright. 01:05 And you know you started this program 01:06 off and you started talking about you 01:08 know the dark cloud and all that so you know. 01:13 Well, you know, and again this, now this is 01:16 going to be the first part of a series of 01:18 programs of mental wellness and so we're 01:21 gonna have that next coming weeks dealing 01:23 with depression. Today its going to be 01:26 entitled Depression Unveiling the Culprits. 01:29 And we'll go more into some other 01:31 components of depression as well, 01:32 so but again those who are depressed 01:35 they sense that they are in a dark room, 01:38 they can't get out, there is a blanket of 01:41 fog that's hovering over them. 01:43 That's blocking the clear sky. 01:45 They want to reach through and pierce the 01:47 gloom but they just can't. And so for the next 01:51 coming weeks we wanna help those 01:52 individuals who maybe experience in 01:54 that how to snap out of depression and 01:57 other types of feeling of being blue as well. 02:00 Is there an actual relationship between 02:03 the mind and the body? Well, absolutely there 02:06 is Honey, and I want to introduce for the 02:10 first time in this segment here. 02:13 There is one author we mentioned this 02:14 author before Ellen G. White. 02:17 This author has been published more than 02:20 any other author in the United States. 02:22 According to the library of congress in 02:24 Washington DC, second in the world, 02:28 and this author has written many volumes 02:30 on health and mental wellness as well. 02:35 This author makes a powerful statement as 02:38 far as health and mental wellness is concerned. 02:41 Let's go to our first graphic and let's see 02:42 what this powerful statement is all about. 02:45 It says here, a sick mind equals a 02:48 diseased body, here it is "Sickness of the 02:51 mind prevails everywhere. Nine tenths of the 02:57 diseases from which we suffer hail their 03:00 foundation here." And again the book 03:02 is mind, character & personality volume 1 03:06 page 59. Now, that's a very profound 03:08 statement and at first glance people look 03:12 at that and read that statement 03:13 and wait a minute. Nine tenths of 03:17 diseases have their foundation right here. 03:21 Nine tenths, now math was not my 03:24 best subject. But do the nine tenths 03:27 is 90 percent, therefore it has a 03:30 great impact on our overall health based 03:33 on the health of our mind, nine tenths, 03:37 so therefore, that's why this series is 03:39 going to be very powerful and very 03:41 important for those out there who maybe 03:43 experiencing sickness in the mind, mental 03:46 health, depression etc. Well, I just finished 03:50 reading a book, as a matter of fact it's been 03:52 a little while back a real dear friend of 03:54 mine Dawn that's living in Texas. 03:56 Okay, that's true. She sent this book to 03:58 me, alright, and it was entitled "Telling 04:00 yourself the truth," okay, and I am telling 04:03 you Curtis, it is absolutely fantastic. 04:05 Okay, she did it with a Bible study group 04:07 and they were working through it 04:09 and she sent me a copy of it and 04:10 she send me workbook as well. 04:11 Somebody by the name of William 04:13 Backus, Marie Chaplain. Okay. And there are 04:15 some statements in this book that were 04:17 totally profound, alright. Some reasons as to 04:21 why a person would get depressed or go 04:24 into depression, right. Okay. And one of the 04:27 things it was in here was the fact that some 04:29 of things it was mentioning was a fact 04:31 of something or someone special 04:34 or dear to you actually dies. Okay. 04:37 It talked about finance and talked about 04:39 the loss of money, or not having enough money. 04:43 It talked about physical illness which 04:45 is another thing they can start depression. 04:47 Okay, it talked about the aging factor. 04:50 It talked about accidents that can 04:52 cause this and stroke and then loss 04:54 of physical strength, we know that 04:56 can be a heavy one. Okay. 04:58 Separation and divorce, alright, 05:00 another one and then how about a fear and 05:03 rejection and also low self esteem and that 05:07 was just to name of few and the book went 05:09 on to make a statement, it says that 05:11 any of these events can be an opportunity 05:15 for the devil to slip a few suggestion into 05:19 the person's self talk. Now self talk is what 05:23 we actually say to ourselves and what 05:25 we believe to be true and often times that 05:28 self talk can really get us into trouble. 05:30 Okay. You know, as far as I may say 05:32 trouble, I mean get us into a state of 05:34 depression and on top of that as I name the 05:36 list how about if you had any combination 05:39 let's say you have a death and you have a 05:41 accident, so just compound, and you 05:43 have no money, situation. Well, you know, 05:44 you're well on your way and so the 05:46 statement you've made as we open the 05:47 program up, it so appropriate, right, 05:49 right, so appropriate. Let me I want to now 05:51 that you mentioned that Honey, 05:53 you mentioned I think finance and there is a 05:55 lot of statements from the same author the 05:58 book "Mind, character, and personality" and 06:01 I kind of glance through that, this is a 06:03 chapter just on depression, yeah. 06:06 There is other chapters too that's 06:07 related to that and I found several things 06:09 that she has mentioned, some of 06:12 things that deals with depression, some of 06:14 the culprits. You would not find in 06:17 a text book. You would not find on the 06:20 national mental health association website 06:23 etc, good information there, but this author 06:27 gives us more insight as far as some of the 06:29 causes or culprits of depression. 06:31 And I have the book here with me, I'm just 06:33 gonna read something here in relationship to, 06:36 you mentioned about finance, honey, yes, 06:38 so this is what this author says about 06:40 finance now that you've mentioned it 06:42 because again lot of people sink into 06:44 depression for lack of funds or finance, 06:48 alright, so this is what this author says, 06:50 it is very profound "At times I am called 06:55 to pass through financial perplexities 06:59 but I do not worry about money. 07:04 God takes care of my affairs, I do all that 07:08 I can, and when the Lord sees that it is 07:12 best for me to have money, He sends it to 07:15 me, alright, mind, character and 07:18 personality book 1, page 493, and again 07:21 so therefore dealing with one of the 07:23 culprits of how a person can sink into 07:26 depression, finance, and lack of money, 07:30 and I think it ties in with, having faith that 07:34 if God can take care of the sparrows, 07:36 he can take care of the animals, and 07:38 the kingdom, the animal kingdom and we're 07:41 more valuable than animal kingdom 07:43 at least I think we should be. 07:45 So therefore, God lay down his life 07:48 for us in ransom. He is concerned 07:51 about our needs. He is concerned about our wants. 07:55 He's concerned about our desires. 07:58 He knows what we need. He just wants us to 08:00 ask him in faith, but the thing that He says 08:03 is I do all that I can. So we have a sense of 08:07 responsibility sometimes we may not do all that 08:09 we can or may misappropriate the 08:13 funds that God has allowed us to receive. 08:16 So therefore, I have faith that God will 08:19 take care of us and when He sees that 08:21 I need money. He sends it to me. 08:23 Well, we know that's totally 08:25 a wonderful statement. 08:27 And a true statement. Yeah, that's true. 08:28 A true statement. And some others to 08:30 that I'm gonna save for the end of the 08:31 program that we will be definite eye opener 08:34 wow, as far as that's concerned. 08:36 Well, I guess the question that I would 08:38 have then and probably the audience 08:39 as well and that is Curtis, what exactly is 08:42 depression, and who's at risk? 08:46 Well, now depression is defined as a 08:49 persistent sadness, alright, now it's 08:53 different from being blue having a blue 08:55 day, alright, there is different types of 08:58 depression, let me just deal with the types first. 09:01 First, we have being blue it's not really a 09:05 depression but just having a bad day, 09:07 but the first major type is Dysthymia. 09:10 Dysthymia, you probably haven't 09:11 heard that term, not one of the popular 09:13 terms you probably hear, but it's a very 09:16 mild of case of depression, a very 09:18 mild type of depression, okay, now a person's 09:21 able to function, able to go to work and 09:23 even be sociable, but they're not really at 09:26 a 100 percent at full steam, alright, it could 09:29 be long-term. And then you have 09:31 the second type is clinical depression, 09:34 that can be mild or moderate, clinical 09:37 depression where we'll go into 09:38 symptoms later on about can't even get 09:41 out of bed and other symptoms attached to that. 09:43 We have another type call bipolar disorder. 09:48 Sometimes used to be called manic depression. 09:51 And we have bi, two, so we have two types 09:53 of almost personalities there's another type 09:56 called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). 10:02 We're gonna have a program just on that 10:05 particular type of depression in the 10:06 coming week, so those are different 10:08 types of depression. Now whose at risk? 10:11 Strangely enough, women are more at 10:13 risk than men, 2 to 4 times more than men, 10:17 okay. Sometimes we assume that maybe 10:20 imbalance of hormones and I think 10:24 without getting too much in trouble, 10:26 I think women we just, they're just wired 10:28 differently than men, absolutely and I am 10:31 just going to leave that alone, okay. 10:32 Alright, so they can probably take any 10:34 more whatever sociable and 10:36 emotional that kind of things so, in the 10:38 elderly we have to always be mind for 10:40 elderly, one in seven elderly over 65 years 10:43 of age is also depressed and 10:45 sometimes due to a loss of a loved one 10:47 which you I think you mentioned before, 10:49 death and that kind of things, so those are 10:51 things that the some of the types of depression. 10:54 I think let's go to our next graphic. 10:56 Let's look at some of the symptoms of 10:58 depression as well. This is the Hamilton 11:00 depressive score. Let's go to the graphic 11:02 this time. Now, we have different 11:04 symptoms and let's look at the first 11:06 symptom first. Is insomnia, this a 11:09 person who's probably sleeping 11:11 later in the evening or later in the morning 11:13 where he cannot get out of the bed or don't 11:15 want to get out of the bed, 11:17 sometimes they can't sleep. 11:19 That's one sign of depression. 11:21 Let's go to our next one, Interest, usually 11:24 a person who is depressed have a loss 11:26 of interest, a loss of activity that they used 11:30 to enjoy, alright, that's another one. 11:32 Let's go to next one, mood, now this can 11:35 be anxiety or feeling sad or feeling grief 11:42 and those kind of things, so just really 11:44 feeling bad all the time. Okay, let's go to our 11:47 next one, anxiety, anxiousness, irritability 11:53 again another sign that the person 11:55 might be depressed. Let's go to the next 11:57 one, weight, now again this can be 12:00 weight gain 'cause you tend to eat you 12:02 know cause just depressed so you eat 12:05 to fill that void or you're not eating 12:08 enough because you are depressed so it can 12:11 be weight loss either or. Let's go to our next 12:15 one, cognition, now this could be again 12:18 not able to make decisions properly, 12:21 not able to remembering names 12:23 or make an adjustment calls so your cognition 12:28 is impaired due to depression. 12:31 Let's go to our next one, energy, people 12:33 just simply those who are depressed are 12:36 fatigued, tired, just don't feel like doing 12:39 anything alright, so a loss of energy, 12:42 and the last one is suicide, this can be 12:45 suicide thoughts and suicide attempts. 12:50 So this is the hallmark of the Hamilton 12:53 Ratings Scale. This has been now 12:55 there for last I guess 30, 40 years this is 12:58 trade mark or the standard of depression. 13:00 Now with those symptoms in mind 13:03 usually to be clinically depressed, 13:06 a person has to experience at least 4 13:08 or 5 of those things for at least two weeks, 13:13 alright, okay, therefore, person said 13:15 to be clinically depressed. Now you want to rule 13:17 out of course blood lab works as far as 13:21 maybe you have a low thyroid functioning 13:24 or maybe low in B12, B6, because that can 13:27 also have signs of depression as well. 13:29 So in balancing all the way round. 13:31 Yes, exactly. From mood swings to all 13:33 the way to, wow! That's kind of heavy... 13:36 Now you've mentioned your 13:38 book about go ahead honey. 13:39 No, I was just thinking then really 13:41 and truly all the things I was mentioning 13:42 earlier as to culprits or reasons is right on target. 13:46 Yes, exactly. And you know, 13:48 I guess you then kind of have to be able to 13:51 still enough or have someone around and 13:53 might even ask the question, you know 13:54 are you okay or you seem to be different, 13:57 you're not like you were before because 13:59 you might even know you are actually depressed. 14:01 Yeah, I think this is what a caregiver or a 14:03 loved one comes into play. See folks and we're 14:06 going to go into this more through, 14:09 authoritatively in the next coming weeks, sure. 14:11 About the person who may see the loved one 14:14 having so many symptoms. You need to be careful, 14:17 you need to urge them gently to do 14:19 something as far as activity is concerned 14:22 and if a person is really clinically 14:23 depressed, they really cannot pull 14:25 themselves up because dealing with 14:27 the mental imbalance as well. 14:28 We will get more to that later on. 14:30 But you miss about some things about 14:31 why people getting depressed and we're 14:33 looking at some culprits and so this is 14:36 a book called "The Mind, character, 14:37 and personality" we read this book before. 14:40 Some of the statements and I want 14:42 to list just a few of these as time will 14:44 allow us as far as some of the 14:46 culprits of depression. Now, again, like 14:49 you said before. This is gonna be an 14:51 eye opened for most people. 14:53 You probably will never thing about this 14:56 first cause of depression, okay, but 14:59 here it is so folks hold on to your seat, 15:01 we'll now find this in a text book or the 15:03 national mental association as well. 15:07 With a closed room, the circulation is depressed. 15:15 The blood moves sluggishly through the 15:19 system because it is not purified and 15:23 vitalized by the pure, invigorating air of heaven. 15:28 Now get this, the mind because of that, 15:32 the mind becomes depressed and gloomy 15:37 with the closed room. That means that a lack 15:41 of fresh air and so therefore, of course in 15:46 the winter time there is more people 15:48 depressed in the winter than in summer time. 15:50 Everything is closed you turn heat up all 15:52 the windows are closed so there is no 15:54 fresh air coming in, so circulation is 15:57 depressed that affects the mind and the mind 15:59 become depressed. And in the morning 16:01 time you feel so tired and sluggish and 16:04 that's one of the culprits of depression 16:06 in Mind, Character, and Personality, 16:08 so that's a eye open and you probably 16:10 might not recognize that or even think 16:12 about that well, that's one of the causes. 16:15 We know in our program we do, 16:16 we go, we travel one of our program is 16:18 called the seventh spiritual stress busters. 16:20 That's true and in that when we talk about 16:22 the importance of air, and how important it 16:24 is and people often surprised. 16:26 Yeah, they are. That we're all kind of 16:27 trapped up in the house and we got the 16:29 curtains down and heat up or the air 16:31 conditioning on and not enough fresh air. 16:33 I am telling you that to have those 16:35 windows open in the evening, before you 16:37 go to bed it actually is a the different feeling 16:40 you have in the morning when you wake up. 16:41 You really have, and one more thing that this 16:44 author says too, and folks so if you're 16:46 listening and if you have symptoms of 16:49 depression, the symptoms we've have 16:51 mentioned or you know someone who is 16:52 depress the number one, one thing, 16:55 one thing you really probably need to 16:57 really do is have your window open 16:59 up in your bedroom. Now make sure that 17:05 the window is not at the head of your bed 17:09 so therefore, you won't have a direct 17:11 draft, make sure the window is either at 17:13 the side of your bed or at the foot of your 17:15 bed, so this is what you need to do. 17:17 We say this in our seminar presentations. 17:20 If you have the head of your bed at your 17:24 window, you need to do one of two things, 17:29 either move your bed or move your window, 17:34 whichever is easier. Okay, now for me is 17:37 to move the bed, alright, true, 17:39 but to have the fresh air coming in and just 17:41 maybe a inch or two the fresh air coming 17:43 in while we're sleeping increases our 17:46 circulation. The brain does not become 17:49 depressed and gloomy and this is one of the 17:52 overlooked culprits and it may not be the only 17:55 culprits but one of the culprits of depression 17:58 and we mentioned about also finance as well. 18:01 And one more thing well I have mentioned 18:02 as well as the clock is ticking like also a 18:04 diseased imagination the same author 18:07 says that as well. We have a disease 18:10 imagination then therefore the whole 18:13 system becomes depressed as well, 18:16 cause of jealousy, envy and grief, 18:20 anxiety, remorse, discontent it depresses 18:24 the whole system the mind is included as a 18:28 matter of fact in the coming weeks we 18:29 have an entire program entitled the 18:32 art of positive thinking. Right, we will deal 18:35 with that as well. One of the things that this 18:37 author points out too is that and this is very 18:40 profound when the word of God is set to 18:44 the side then she says the mind becomes 18:49 dwarfed and cheapened. And in place of that 18:54 we will read material that is not inspired 18:59 is a double whammy, yeah. 19:01 Therefore again those who are depressed or 19:04 is a mild or moderate whatever when God's 19:07 word is set aside again we are inviting 19:10 depression to come into our lives and to 19:12 our minds and this is how Satan controls us 19:15 through our mental capacity. 19:18 So, this is going to be a series of our next 19:20 coming weeks so I want you to stay by for that. 19:23 Well, you definitely want to stay by 19:24 because it looks like we are just getting 19:26 stories in the whole subject of depression. 19:28 Alright, that's right. I know you wonder 19:29 are we going in the kitchen and the 19:31 answer is absolutely we are, we are going 19:33 into kitchen I want you get your paper and pencil. 19:36 We are gonna be doing a squash casserole. 19:39 I am telling you its going to 19:40 be delicious. So stay by. |
Revised 2014-12-17