My Christian Ideas on Happiness and Depression

[jennifer_bloom]

I believe two ingredients make happiness:

(1) The first is humility and respect and purpose and meaning and service and excellence and work

(2) The second is kindness and sympathy and affection and mercy and sweetness and friendliness and politeness and helpfulness

I also believe two ingredients make depression:

(1) The first is greed and materialism and superficiality and vanity and image worship

(2) The second is criticism and judgment and competitiveness and pride and disrepute and egotism and mockery and negativity and degradation

A guy I used to talk to says, you cannot be genuinely happy until you learn to respect and care about those you associate with

[collie22]

live in Gods word will bring Blessings

[Jjpayne]

I totally agree with this!

[Jjpayne]

Thank you for the mho 😊

[Anonymous]

The points on happiness, I can agree with--but the "(1)" you put for depression is completely false. The "(2)" got a couple things right; depression can involve a lot of self-criticism, self-judgment, self-degradation, and negativity--but it has nothing to do with someone being egotistical or mocking. Depression is a medical condition, a mental disorder, not a consequence of the person's sin; becoming depressed doesn't mean the person doesn't obey God or isn't being kind and loving towards others.

[Massageman]

You are right! Don't worry about what ' "anon" 18-24 ' said. She just doesn't "get " our Christian mindset. collie22 , on the other hand, DOES!

[es20490446e]

Happiness is just the expectation that things will get good, confirmed by your own action.

[alance99]

Yea thats very much true