30 Days of Hope for Dealing with Depression by Brenda Poinsett

Author:Brenda Poinsett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

She listened to their stories. Every depressed woman in the camp had a story to tell, a story of horrible experiences they endured in the war. One by one, Nuon sat with a woman, often for up to three hours at a time, and listened to her story. She made regular follow-up visits, listening more, until she gained the trust of the depressed woman.

She taught the women to forget. In The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon quotes Nuon as saying, “We have exercises we do each day, so that each day they can forget a little more of the things they will never forget entirely. During this time, I try to distract them with music or with embroidery or weaving, with concerts, with an occasional hour of television, with whatever seems to work, whatever they tell me they like. Depression is under the skin, all the surface of the body has the depression just below it, and we cannot take it out; but we can try to forget the depression even though it is right there.” Her approach was similar to Isaiah’s. He said to God’s people in exile, “Forget what happened before, and do not think about the past” (Isaiah 43:18 NCV).

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