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viernes, 19 de enero de 2018

The Noon Demon



Keren Stanley Illustration "The Nonday Demon" (The Noon demon)


Despite sounding aggressive, the title of this post was extracted from Psalm 91:5, 6, in the version Douay-Rheims. The text says, "[...] You will not be afraid of the terror of the night, the arrow that flies by day, the pestilence that walks in the dark, the invasion or the demon of midday. " The American writer Andrew Solomon was inspired in these verses to name one of his main works: the noon Demon: An Anatomy of Depression (2001). This book addresses in a visceral way the depression, this paralyzing demon that numbs dreams and desires. His book, of a profound and sensitive writing, repels prejudice on this disease that haunts so many souls.
In fact, this reality has become more and more common in our daily lives. About 5.8% of the Brazilian population suffers from depression – a total of 11.5 million cases recorded in the country, according to data released by the World Health Organization (WHO). The index is the largest in Latin America and the second largest in the Americas, behind only the United States, which record 5.9% of the population with the disorder and a total of 17.4 million cases.

According to WHO, the number of people living with depression is increasing-18.4% between 2005 and 2015. The estimate is that at present, around 322 million of people of all ages suffer from disease all over the world. The organ has warned that depression is the main cause of labor disability on the planet and, in the worst cases, can lead to suicide.

But even if the "noon Demon" harasses Us, "The Sun of justice will rise up bringing healing in its wings" (Ml 4:2, NIV) at midnight. The divine power available to overcome depression, the integral Biblical vision of the human being and the aid of professionals and adequate resources to combat the disease are fundamental elements in the restoration process.

To conclude, let us take this important message left by our dear brother Mário Jorge Lima, via Facebook, entitled "Depression, evil of the end time":
I have just read that according to WHO-World Health Organization, up to 2020, depression will be the most crippling of diseases. Treacherous, silent, misunderstood, immobilizes elderly, adults, young, adolescents and even children, destroying the willingness to study, work, even for leisure and to treat themselves, not rarely making them into potential suicides.
Unfortunately, in the eagerness to help, relatives, friends, church brothers and people in general confuse things, emit opinions crossed and take on attitudes that hurt more than they bring any aid in fact.
I understand that only those who feel it in their own skin, or have people close to them, suffering from this evil, are able to evaluate a little what is this strange force that increasingly extinguishes or enslaves productive and promising lives.
Someone will say that prayer and the gospel are able to heal these mental and emotional disorders. And they are, since, of course, who suffers, can still cry for help, like the lost sheep of the parable, and is then lovingly sought after and recovered. Or be able to still have attitude to return to the House of the father, as the lost son of another parable, being by him festively received.
Now consider, what to do if he/she is simply a lost coin, with that of a third parable, that being an inanimate object, without will, without reaction, without any condition to seek help or to scream for it, will only be helped, recovered and saved if it is diligently looking Ada and found?
That this weekend, all of us Christians said postmodern, saved by grace, that we find ourselves in control of our physical, mental, intellectual and emotional aptitudes, that we have the privilege of eating, drinking, dressing and behaving in the way we deem correct , believing in what we believe to be true, holy and good, we remember that many of our "little brothers", Real lost coins by the path of life, do not have that chance, and many of them are slowly fading.
I'm sure we all know someone living in these painful situations. That each of us, instead of belittling, criticizing or distancing ourselves from those who suffer, we make ourselves available to pray for them, to serve them, to listen to them and to support their treatments and therapies in some way.


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