In awareness of this month of May, for all the Christians who are suffering from mental illness, chronic illness, neurological disorders, cancer, survivors of sexual abuse and rape, abuse, trauma, alcohol and drug abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, and dysmorphia: please know you are loved, you are cared for, you are important, and you are not a burden/problem/waste of space. You are not a "failure" or "terrible" or an "unworthy" Christian. You are not a mistake, your life and value is not defined by how much you need help or are dependent and need to recover. You don't need to be perfect, "be normal", or easier to love, to care for, to support, and to accept.
You are not sinful because you are ill. You are not wicked because you are weakened. You are not too far gone or faithless or unforgiven because you are in doubt and in pain everyday.
You already are loved, you are cared for, you are supported, and you are accepted, by the same Christ who has suffered as many afflictions as you and others before, on, and after that Cross, and He suffers with you because He knows you and He calls you His own - not out of burden or pity, but the love that He is calls to give himself unto you because that is who He is.
Who you are, does not seperate or negate the love God has for you.
Please reach out to any of our brothers and sisters online to pray for you, listen to you, and share your sorrow with you. And do not be afraid to seek out counsellors, psychologists, and psychiatrists who may truly help you; therapy and help are not a rejection of God's work and healing, they are extensions of it.
For as Christ had taken refuge in the Father in the days before His Crucifixion, as Elijah had cried to God to take his life out of depression and overwhelm, as David had wept for the heart and mercy of the Lord, as the Gerasene man possessed with a legion had once cut himself with stones went to proclaim the sound Gospel, and as Paul had proclaimed in the darkness and lowliness of a cell that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us: may we share that comfort and solace and anguish and neediness and assurance with you, before the same God.