Peace of Mind- Mental Health Conference

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K'dee Elsen Crews

Disappointment, Depression, and Deliverance Part 2

Dearly Father, Lord, God, I thank you so much for this weekend.

I thank you for the healing that you've already provided, Lord, I thank you for the healing that you continue to want to provide to us.

Lord, I pray for your guidance, I pray for your Holy Spirit to be present now in this room.

Lord, even with all my training, Lord, I know that it's never enough to fully provide the needs of these individuals here in this room, Lord.

And so, Lord, I pray that you may speak through me, O God, speak directly, tailor every word to each person here today, Lord.

I pray for their hearts, that they may be open, that they may be softened to hear your words today.

Lord, I know that we've gone through experiences that have hardened ourselves to people, to your words.

And so I just pray that all barriers may be removed, that the enemy may be far from this room, and that you may be present in a very obvious and visible way.

So this is part 2 to the previous seminar, which Dee had just presented on depression, disappointment, and deliverance.

And the reason why we wanted to do a part 1 and part 2 is de-presented a personal story as well as the perspective of kind of what we often think about the ministry perspective of if you're struggling, kind of resources both in God's Word, claiming promises.

And then I'll be presenting a little bit more of the clinical side.

But I'd like to say that they're not separate.

So when I was going throughout my graduate school studies, I had my textbooks in 1 hand and my Bible and the spirit of prophecy in another.

And that's because a lot of times psychology teaches that they're separate.

I'll be coming from a cognitive behavioral therapy standpoint.

Who here has heard of cognitive behavioral therapy?

Okay, so kind of half of you guys, that's pretty good.

So I'm going to explain what that is, we're going to go into it, but 1 of the questions earlier from the last breakout was, you know, the first thing of how do I even know that I might be struggling with depression.

So the skills I'm going to be talking about is not only applicable to depression, it's also to anxiety and other mental health concerns.

But with depression specifically, we talked about how sometimes there's a change in functioning.

Sometimes 1 of the questions was, well, what if I've been struggling with this from a young age?

And so we talked a little bit about there's sleep changes, there's appetite.

And when you go through the symptoms of depression, there's no 1 size fits all.

If you guys learn anything about mental illness this weekend, it's that no one-size-fits-all, meaning not everyone who's depressed has a similar presentation.

So some people might have some symptoms, some people might have others.

Those who struggle with it for a longer period of time often have not the the change in functioning because they already have kind of lower functioning, but they have a lot of these negative thoughts, feelings of worthlessness, feelings of hopelessness, feelings of helplessness that are more chronic.

And so the skills that are gonna be taught are for both a mix of those who maybe are having depression for the past couple weeks, or even for those who've been struggling for a longer time.

What is really interesting about this seminar is I'm gonna go through CBT in 1 hour, which is quite difficult to do for the sake of often I spend like 8 to 12 sessions with patients and still that sometimes is not enough.

But this is just an idea of being an introduction to CBT, what it is, and what you can start doing to help either yourself or take these skills and help a friend or a loved 1 that might be struggling with depression.

So cognitive behavioral therapy is 1 of the leading and most effective worldwide psychological treatments.

So CBT, if you've heard of it, could be applied to depression, could be applied to anxiety, sleep even.

They have cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia if you have difficulties with sleep.

It's used for OCD, a lot of different mental health concerns.

And the reason why is because it covers these 3 main components, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

When I present this seminar, I typically do it over the course of a whole weekend.

So I just do an hour or 2 on behaviors, an hour or 2 on thoughts, an hour or 2 of emotions.

But for the sake of time, we're crunching it all together.

But I want this to be as applicable as possible to each of you.

And I want this to be discussion-based because I want this to be applicable, again, to each and every 1 of you.

So what that means is if you have any questions or comments in the middle, please raise your hand, speak up, keep it brief as much as possible, but again I want to make sure that this is something that you can leave here feeling like you have some tools in your toolbox to either for yourself or for others.

So we're gonna go through an example of what is CBT.

You'll notice here in the picture of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

And 1 thing that you notice, this is often presented in a triangle, because what happens if you switch a triangle on either side?

And the thing is that thoughts, behaviors, and emotions are all linked.

It's not if 1 is more important than the other.

So we're going to give you an example here of how they're linked.

David and Jack both receive poor grades on a math test.

I'm sure this never happens to anyone here at BMA.

But they both receive bad grades on a math test.

And we're going to compare Jack's response and David's response, OK?

If I was smart, like Michael, I would have passed.

What do you think might be his feelings as a result of this thought?

So he first has the thought, and then he has the emotion, maybe feeling depressed.

And then what do you think might be a behavior that results out of this?

It says that Jack decides to stop studying for the next test.

So do you see how a thought, a negative thought that I'm so stupid, then impacts his emotions?

He starts feeling sad or depressed, which then impacts his behaviors.

Now let's see how David reacts to his poor grade.

He thinks, wow, I definitely underestimated this test.

Kind of more positive, a little bit more realistic, right?

He says, oh, I've underestimated this test.

Can you explain what you're trying to do now?

But confident that he will be able to try on his next test.

So you see that the behavior then, David decides to begin studying.

Disappointment, Depression, and Deliverance Part 2

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