The Solution to Fear
She was "hijacked, car-jacked."
Yet she turned her experience into a positive mental health advocacy.
Neil-Peters was quoted by the news:
"Never allow yourself to be a prisoner of fear. Because if you allow yourself to be, you're going to live your whole life in fear. Go for therapy, it really, really helps. Don't be too proud ... I can walk with you - that makes us unbreakable."
Fear is a most common disability of those struck with psychopathology. Not normal fear. But fear that is severe. Out of proportion.
It's fear that makes one choose to remain a victim. A person whose fears have become overwhelming gets crippled to move on in life.
I'm reminded of Pablo who struggled with fear and depression a lot. He was bullied a lot in his life by his parents and schoolmates.
As a result, he would have panic attacks and gasp for breath. He literally could not breathe and this happened often.
Fear was strangling him.
Too often, when we meet a person struggling with unbearable pains of fear, we simply tell them "Get over it!" Or, dismiss the unreality of the source of the person's fears.
In spiritual circles, we may tell him or her, "Have faith."
However, I've observed that none of these work most effectively. None is a lasting solution to the problem of the person regarding fears.
The solution to the problem of fear is love. That kind of solution is permanent. Unbreakable.
You can choose to be unbreakable in the face of any fears you experience. You can make it through any rain.
And that involves "perfect love," super doses of it.
Getting the right kind love is the medicine we all need to overcome all the fears we will face on earth.
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love" (1 John 4:18).
Have you known how to experience "perfect love" in your life?
Catch that secret!
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