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Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence.

Having suffered from depression for the past 30 years and counting...I began to realise that fear of depression itself was at the root of it all.  I began using the day positively by praying the Rosary every hour of the day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.   As I prayed I KNEW the souls were being aided.  I knew it with the certainty of faith.  I had no faith in my own prayer (if you understand what I mean - because one feels that God has stopped loving one - which is what depression IS).  The sense of being abandoned by God is exploited by the Enemy and distorted - because God is actually very close to us during those times.   Unable to put my faith in my own prayer I put it in the Prayer of the Church.  When the Church gives us prayers to say they always work - so you will be saving souls in Purgatory.  The fear began to lift as I had a real purpose in life that continues to this day.   The episodes have decreased considerably  and if they re-surface from time to time I pray the Rosary again for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.  The depression stops you from taking the credit because it is only by knowing it is the Prayer of the Church - of the suffering Christ - that is releasing souls from Purgatory. I am not afraid of it any more because the devil does not like helping you pray for the Holy Souls, and that makes me happy.