by friendociate » 27 Nov 2018, 17:08 
so this is just 'from my memory'), then she finished with something like 'GOODBYE HELL, HELLO HEAVEN!'It looked like a suicide-note (I 'know better,' but I'm still "indoctrinated" with the false belief that "heaven is 'where ya go when ya die <)<):-) '"), so I felt I should respond.
My first reaction was 'to choose a reaction,' and I feel I chose the "wrong" reaction: "
" which I chose because Facebook doesn't have ' 
(confused)' on the list of options (Like, Love, Laugh, Gasp, Cry, Rage). I then started to explain 'why I laughed,' which took longer than she was willing to wait.I didn't understand her, mainly because she hadn't been posting about her depression up to that point. All of her posts that I'd seen up to that point (and probably after too ... you could check, if you knew who I was talking-about; but I won't tell you who she is) had been of her joyful relationships with her man, her family and her God; so "depression" seemed like 'an imaginary monster.' (And imaginary monsters only get stronger the more you talk about them---even if your 'talk about them' is "telling them to go away.")
I then reminded her of 'all the good things she had in her life.' And I suppose she thought it was "demeaning"---as if I were 'telling her something I didn't think she knew.'
But there is actual neuroscience behind what I did. I am living proof of such science---I was once paralyzed & on life-support and had doctors telling my family that I would be a vegetable for as long as the family'd pay to keep the machine on. And--though it's ALSO taken years-&-years of therapy & exercise & further-injury & medicine & support-groups & 'pain & torture' (our nickname for Physical Therapy---same two initials)--all of it started with 'telling my body over & over (& over & over ad inf.) that it WOULD-walk again, -talk again, -breathe again, -sing again, -type again, -drum again & -do all the other things that make life worth living & loving
It's in line with The Bible's reminder that "Faith cometh by hearing" (Romans 10:17). I know there's more to that verse--'and hearing through the word of Christ'--but the law that 'faith cometh by hearing' works for the word of "whatever you listen to." If your ears don't hear you pray out-loud, your subconscious mind doesn't know that you prayed---oh, 'Our Heavenly Father knows your prayer before you pray it'; but ... there's no money in the bank-account if you don't make a deposit first!
