An Orthodox Priest's Advice For Anxiety & Depression | Fr. Paul Truebenbach

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Thank you for praying for me...I got sober 8 months ago and social anxiety went THRU THE ROOF. I want to be of service to others so much , yet I get pain and mental turmoil anxiety around others at times, even in nature or attending church. I love you all stay blessed

I was an angry atheist many years ago. What proved creation and god for me? Flat Earth, oddly enough. Its memed on and joked on pretty hard these days, but it's funnily enough, absolutely fact, and provable if you get over your ego, realize how much science is an illusion, a fantasy model of our reality that does not represent reality, modern scientific dogma and astronomy. Think of a dot on a piece of paper, you can say that is anything you want. A galaxy a bazillion miles away, or a basketball hundreds of feet away. This is essentially modern astronomy, telling us what the dots in the sky are. Men Make cgi images of balls and tell you these dots are very large bodies you can land on, it's just another religion. The "Photos" youve seen of other bodies in a "solar system" are just graphic artists work.

Anyways, that's not what's important, what is important, is that I became grateful for many things once i learned this place was created consciously and intelligently. You see the whole world differently, and I came here because I have had panic and anxiety issues, which are improving, but they were brought on by the covid lockdown and fear, and I'm having a tough time with Jesus and christianity, but I do know there is an intelligent creator, I can see his finger prints everywhere. I cannot, however, see Jesus' name written in the rocks, mountains and hills, where I see god's handy work.

Learning to live outside of yourself is probably the most important take away from this video, rumination about your self, your health, your future, thinking of others, working on projects.

I try to talk to Jesus for help with my anxiety, and maybe I'm not a full on Christian, but I seem to have been lead in the right direction. I will always walk with the Christians even if I'm still a bit conflicted.

Thank you father for your consoling guidance

All good advice except for the prayer. Why should a person pray a half hour every day? What? are we going to try to impress God with our words. The almighty God knows what we're thinking. The prayers should not be lengthy. Jesus Christ said it and the gospel of Matthew not to make lengthy prayers like the gentiles do. Honesty in our prayers to God is the most important thing. We cannot deceive him with a half hour prayer of made up stuff just to impress Him with our words.

God talked us in many ways, here I find myself God thoughts me. May God bless you 🙏

Depression and anxiety comes from intrusive thoughts and those thoughts but bring Terror in our heads are from the enemy. The first thing that monks and a nuns in Orthodox faith do is not to believe in their own thoughts. It breaks the pattern of depression and anxiety.

this is 1000 times better advice than from all the online coaches about anxiety

This has help[ed me so much. We need to get out of our heads indeed and simply listen to the ambiance around us and see what is around us. Take it day by day with GOD.

God and learning to live His ways are 100% the best way I know of to stop lostness chaos and sadness and rage.
If u r on the brink , over flowing with rage or grief or confusion, the answer is with God. The hope the clarity the strength and calm and wisdom ...i PROMISE u , are all with God, learning to live His way.
Pray ,tell God whats in your heart and mind ,learn His ways.

Be sincere ,Even if its ugly ,show Him .
Get real with God and be prepared to learn and follow and He will get real with u

I agree these things can help and aide a person's mental and physical health. As a mother of 8 who never had depression until my sixth child was born. It began postpartum and at that point I don't think i was thinking of myself. My fourth, fifth and sixth children were 22 months apart. I had been nursing and pregnant for almost 3 years straight. I had a an epidural that punctured my dural space during my third c section which caused intense pain and ptsd afterwards. I think I was so depleted of nutrition, rest, and self care. There is also the recently discovery of very low progesterone after delivery and after the placenta is delivered a woman's body may no longer be able to go back to producing the right amount of that hormone. Im Catholic so I believe in the Church's teaching on the openess to life. Ive taken medicine ever since that birth and went on to have two more beautiful children. It can be a learning process to taking care of oneself as well as having many children. Ive always kept a clean home and tried to keep myself busy and tried to be creative homeschooling the children: crafts, hikes, field trips etc. I never had anymore depressive episodes in 20 years that Ive been on the medication. However, I was in the hospital this past April and given a dose of Reglan for nausea because of a migraine and I immediately felt anxiety come over me so I told the nurse. She told me it was a side effect of the nausea medication and she gave me something to counteract it. That night I began feeling weird and I could tell a depressive episode was happening. I couldnt talk, couldn't get up, couldn't function. I actually had to increase my medication after 20 years to be able to function again. Come to find out Reglan is a dopamine blocker which caused an imbalance in my brain chemicals. Its an awful medication. My point is that let us not forget depression is a physiological sickness as well as a mental health issue that has been stigmatized and that makes people not want to reach out for medical or professional help. People who suffer from depression have been accused by others of being weak in faith, weak in empathy, weak in mind and yet many saints and faithful people have suffered from it greatly. Sometimes taking a medication can be a cross. Accepting our weaknesses whatever it is can be offered up as a humility, as a suffering, as a way to draw closer to Christ. St.Paul said (paraphrasing here) that he asked God 3 times to take away his thorn but God didn't and yet in his weakness he is made strong in Jesus Christ. Let's remember those words as well. Jesus heal us of our iniquities, cleanse us of our sins. Help us to understand what we can change and be patient with those crosses we have to carry.

We are not only disoriented about our identity, many gave up and don’t have an identity anymore so they have adopted one and they are now slaves. I pray that God safe more and more people from this every day. God is using now to stop that. Amazing words. Thank you 🙏

Praise God, thank you for these words of wisdom. 🙌🙏

This is life changing perspective

When you have kids you cant aford to be depress .do for your kids get better for them or for your mom .

No matter what the problem, give it to the Lord and forget about it. Life is met to be.lived loved and laugh. "Just believe "

I feel if we had less city structure and more nature with animals we would be a lot happier as a society nature heals nature calms the mind the birds singing heals gods creation is perfect in every way it even provides for us

Don’t know what other people go through, but I’m abused child it’s hard for me to make it every day. I went through a lot of trauma.

I broke out crying watching this

How about tell them to spend time with God and with the Holy Spirit and talk to Jesus like a dear friend, not quote what you call Jesus prayers for half an hour. Geez.

sometimes a gluten free diet also can help. Or eating less beef but turkey/chicken instead.

Great advice here.

I have bipolar disorder type 1. I have since I was I was 9 years old. I rely on antipsychotic medication and infusions to treat my mental health condition. Those things don’t even compare to the benefits that my faith in God has gave me but both are necessary for my health. You are spot on father! The more selfish I am and the more I care about the perception others have of me the more anxiety I have. We are not here to glorify ourselves. We are here to glorify God.

Excellent!

Some people dont know how to not catastrophise. We are taught in school how to break down problems. That and constant exams and reaching goal thresholds in the modern workplace has got us anxious. We are animals who originally hunt and gather, we were not built for this life we are living. Its the way our entire society is built which is making us sick. Im not sure if god gets on your backside about not reaching certain kpi's but perhaps bro, so its not as easy as stop thinking about yourself. We need to build societies that rely in each other.

I am eighty one and the happiest times of my life were when my late husband was alive and I had three little ones under five years of age. It's only now that I realise how happy I was. It was utterly fulfilling. I live now on those memories and the love of Jesus. Amen.

Love your neighbour as you would love yourself " MEANS" DON'T HATE YOURSELF AND DON'T CREATE PROBLEMS FOR YOUR NEIGHBOUR

Please, say something about OCD.

Depression and anxiety can be solved by doing household work, work if you have employment, read a good book vs. idle mind/ a few pages if cannot finish the whole book. Take a bath, cool water.

I love you❤ Such a good advice

Trust in God, hail Christ and you'll be alright <3

I find this advice very helpful except in my circumstance and I’m sure many others. It is almost impossible to get out of your own head when you deal with physical pain on a daily basis. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to overcome that, sadly.

Father, is that the appropriate term to use for you? I listened to your list… I’m going to tell you some things about me and perhaps you can shed light on something that I am unable to shake…
Firstly I am a 45 yr old male and I have been experiencing deep depression for most of my life.
The roots of this depression lie in the abuse, neglect and the lack of want my parents had for me especially after their divorce. I’ve been a drug addict and I’ve lived through abuse and neglect both mental and physical. As a teenager I attempted suicide with medication I was taking for depression which obviously failed but it never came to light because rather than my mother worrying about me and taking me to a hospital as most parents would she just thought was high and left me to suffer…
Since then I am a single dad with 3 of my kids in my custody 4 total, have been rejected countless times and am severely broken…
That is such a brief summary of my pain it doesn’t do it justice but I need to get to your 4points. I am a believer in Christ and I recognize that he is King and Lord and he died a physical death and physically rose from that death for my sins. This has been my belief for the last 9 yrs.
Point 1: in the last 5 months I have lost nearly 80lbs from 300… I am currently sitting a few oz above 220lbs.
Point 2: I am constantly cleaning or fixing something to the point I’ve given up on most of it…
Point 3: my prayer life wile a bit all over the place is as the Bible suggests, “without ceasing” I am constantly talking to God, repenting and as has been said by Saint Nicodemus relenting to God, “I am what I am”…
Point 4: I serve my church, I am a single father and have been told time and again by people of the faith and outside the faith that they admire me for it( I take that as humbly as I can), I serve others outside the church and try to always ensure the people who I attempt to help that it’s not me but Jesus who works through me…
None of this am I seeking any kind of recognition for…. But, why is it that despite all of this; despite every point you just made, am I in such depression that I am now PRAYING for God’s wrath rather than grace? I feel so empty inside that I want him to scare the sh*t out of me so at least I can feel something other than emptiness and pain?… every point you just made, I have thought to myself… this will help me get closer to God so I can hopefully feel the love I so desperately desire?!?!… Sin eats me alive, I sink constantly in the mire of depression and self loathing. And it is dark, cold and purposeless here.
I am tired of hearing “give it up to God”… I’m tired of saying it myself… I’m tired of constantly saying “God you can have it please take it from me” and I get deeper in the mire in return.
I’m tired of people claiming they’ve “seen” God or had some kind of profound religious experience when the only profound experiences in my life of anything spiritual is when I lived as a pagan/wiccan… None of it being good as is why I will never return to that life.
I am so absolutely broken that I am dust yet to be swept up by the wind and blown away…
I apologize for the dramatics but it’s difficult to get my point across otherwise.
Help me understand… as in James chapter 5 I am seeking prayer,elders of the church, anointing, anything… even wrath… please please help me…

Out of curiosity what math book were you guys using? Loved the look of it.

Self-love and narcissism and mental illness 🤒 are the pandemic of our age including church ⛪️ going and practicing Christians ✝️ as well. People are church going atheists ⚛️ 😳 they do NOT believe in God. It's all a show.

I have a question. I'm not against this doctrine or the teachings at all. I think it is something necessary and even needed, very honorable too. But, my question is: should every christian be that way? For example, I enjoy painting, and God must have given me this gift for a reason. Rejecting oneself, especially in this world, is very hard, and I don't think I'll be able to achieve it in my own, especially in the environment of my home. Any advice or answers?

I've been suffering severe depression lately, and decided I needed to go running. I searched "orthodox teaching" and hit the first video... And this was exactly what I needed.

The modern world prompts a lot of depressing thinking. Modern life is depressing bc the culture is broken and breaks our lives. One really has to say NO to a lot of the world to keep the bad stuff out. And that bad stuff we take on keeps the good stuff out of our life and heart.

THE FIRST SHOULD BE PRAYER!!!ALSO BELIEVE IN GOD NOT YOURSELF OBSESSED WITH SELF ESTEEM!!!

As confirmation, i actually do each if these 4 things as an inquirer, before ever eatching this. The Holy Spirit will guide us unto truth.

I go for a walk along a creek (I have to drive miles to get to such a place around here). I stop to Wade in the steam and often build little dams to raise the pond level a few inches. This involves a lot of lifting of stones, an actual workout. I get a lot of satisfaction out of this beaver-like behavior and feel good soreness in my arms and chest.

4x Rosaries per day to break the cycle

It is hard, though, with chronic illness. Physical activity is painful and extremely tiring. The fatigue is sometimes disabling. I can’t do as much as “healthy” people, so i don’t think exercise/cleaning works the same way for me. Then i get down about that and it just feeds the depression. Also grieving several loved ones who have died in the last couple years, and it all seems too much to bear sometimes.

Where was the advice for anxiety?

A LOT of anxiety and depression is caused by sugar, bad gut health, and dysfunction hormonal health.

Change your diet, fix your gut health, fix your hormones, but magnesium glycinate, -- do these things.

Why this guy looks like: if you dont agree with what Ive just said I am going to kick your ass?

BEST VIDEO EVER!!! It helped me soo much after years of feeling bad

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