Saint Porphyrios for depression

From the book "Life and Discourses of Elder Porphyrios Kaufsokalybitos," we were advised by Elder Porphyrios. It happens many times today that man feels sadness, despair, indolence, laziness, apathy, and all the satanic things. being sad, crying, being depressed, not paying attention to his family, spending a lot of money on psychotherapy to get medicine. These people call it insecurity. Our religion believes that these are tempting things. Pain is a mental force that God put in us with the purpose of doing good, loving, experiencing joy, and praying. Instead, the devil succeeds and takes this psychic power from the battery of our soul and uses it for evil. It makes her depressed and brings the soul to cruelty and abomination. It tortures man, makes him his prisoner, makes him mentally ill. [music]There's a secret. Turn evil energy into good. It is difficult and requires some preparation. Preparation is humiliation. By humility, you draw away the grace of God. Grow in God's love. His worship, in prayer, and in all that you do,you have accomplished nothing unless you have attained humility.All the bad feelings, the insecurity, the despair, the disappointment that go to wax the soul leave with humility. The one who has no humility, the egoist, does not want you to cut his will, to touch him, to give him hints. He gets upset,gets angry, rebels, reacts, gets depressed. This condition is cured by grace. The soul must turn to the love of God. The healing will come by loving God with a longing. Many of our saints turned depression into joy through love for Christ. In other words, they took this mental power that the devil wanted to crush and gave it to God and turned it into joy and rejoicing. Prayer, the worship of God, slowly changes depression and turns it into joy because it works by the grace of God. Here, you need to have the strength to extract the grace of God that will help you unite with him. It takes art. When you give yourself to God and become one with him, you will forget the evil spirit that was pulling you from behind. and that thus despised shall depart. Then, as long as the Spirit of God is absent, you will not look behind you to see the one who draws you. When grace draws you, you unite with God. And when you unite with God and give yourself to him, everything else falls into place. You forget, and you are saved. So the great art, the great secret to get rid of depression and all the negatives, is to give yourself the love of God. One thing that can help the depressed is work, interest in life, the garden, plants, flowers,trees, the countryside, a walk in the countryside, all these things take a person out of inactivity and create other interests for them. They act like drugs. Dealing with art does a lot of good. But what I attach the greatest importance to is the interest in the church, in the study of the Holy Bible, in the services. By studying the words of God,one is healed without realizing it. Let me tell you about a girl who came to me humbly. He went through a terrible depression. He didn't do anything with the drugs. She gave up everything, her job, her home, her hobbies. And I told her what I know. I told her about the soul-capturing love of Christ. because the grace of God fills the soul and changes it. I explained to her that this power that takes over the soul and turns the mental power into depression is demonic. He knocks her down, tortures her, and anoints her. I advised her to engage in various occupations, such as the music she liked first. But I emphasized more her conversion and love for Christ. I also told her that in our church, there is healing with love for God and prayer, but it is done with longing. This is the secret of healing. This is what our church accepts.