How Spiritual Awakening Healed My Depression
By: Carla Lara
Depression. Anxiety. Bipolar disorder. Binge eating disorder. Suicidal ideation. These were the diagnoses that kept me in the dark and hopeless. I was medicated and in therapy but still struggled daily. I was told that I would be on medication for life and had come to accept it. As a health care professional I knew that it would likely worsen over time.
Until all of a sudden and seemingly out of nowhere, everything changed. I discovered that Spirit was REAL. I began to see light in my life once again. I didn’t need my medication anymore and slowly weaned myself off of each pill. 3 years later, I remain med-free and episode-free. I’m not suggesting that anyone do the same, but this was my personal experience.
Perhaps it was because I never needed the medication in the first place. Or perhaps it was the power of the placebo effect. I like to believe that my descent into madness was because of an entire dimension missing from my life. When I had the evidence that I needed to believe, the fog lifted.
When I awakened to the reality that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, my hopelessness and despair evaporated. I had struggled for years with mental illness and had begun to question “what’s the point?”. I wondered if there was more to life than *THIS*. I had no idea this would be the thing that healed me and wasn’t even searching for it.
I was the biggest skeptic and believed only in science. I had a vague concept of God but lived as an atheist. It was when I stumbled on the subject of “remote viewing” that changed everything. I found studies to support this extraordinary phenomenon and that was the language that spoke to me at the time.
To this day, I still don’t fully understand what happened or why it did, but I am grateful that I no longer am shackled by depression and the others.
This is a short story about my awakening:
The Thousand Petal Rose
https://www.wattpad.com/story/401365825-the-thousand-petal-rose?utm_source=web&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share_myworks