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In Which I Have Never Been Instantly Healed, But Have Always Been Healed

Anita Mathias — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:55:51 +0000

I have never witnessed a verified physical healing. Never spoken to anyone who had experienced one themselves, following prayer. And I have never experienced an instantaneous physical or emotional healing as someone prayed for me. However, I have never yet NOT been at least partially healed of anything […]

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Depression and exercise

Anita Mathias — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:56:00 +0000

I remember a nice phrase in Andrew Solomon’s book on depression, “The Noon Day Demon,” which I first read in the New Yorker. That “exercise exorcised the depression from his body”. That’s exactly how it is with me. In a typical depressive pattern, I often wake up sluggish and with low mood, and gain in […]

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Poem written by Percy Shelley to his wife, Mary Shelley, who was deeply depressed

Anita Mathias — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:10:00 +0000

My dearest Mary, wherefore hast thou gone, And left me in this dreary world alone? Thy form is here indeed—a lovely one— But thou art fled, gone down a dreary road That leads to Sorrow’s most obscure abode. For thine own sake I cannot follow thee Do thou return for mine.From Shelley’s Notebooks

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