Bipolar Disorder Symptoms Healed Through Prayer

I have struggled with severe mood swings and a devastating diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This has led to many hospitalizations of which I’ve been pronounced as incurable. I’ve been told that God is all and God is life. I know that by working with this Science, I’m entitled to Scientific certainty of demonstration.

In 2010, a very dear friend from over 40 years ago came to live with me in Hamburg Germany. Giving up her whole life that she had in Berlin as a graphic artist. It had been through her that I discovered Christian Science, in 1979 in Vancouver. We had helped my mother with prayer in the 1980s when she was diagnosed with the same “mental illness.”

This belief of heredity is as untrue as two and two are equal to five. In this country, there is an advocacy for alternative medicine but this is not Christian Science and it does not offer the hope that I am a child of God, incapable of doing anything that God does not sanctify. The belief of many minds is dualism and has nothing to do with seeing myself and others as God has made us. The emotionalism, my own brother and my partner at the time saw me as being, a helpless invalid, are issues that I combat by supporting our Plainfield Church in making our Bible Lessons available to the German speaking public. I cannot hold to the belief that a human brother and an ex-partner would see me as being only useful for a mental health facility. How often I read in the Bible lessons, that I bring from German to English, that God is all and no one is outside of the allness of God. So, this journey to confront what is a false identity is being handled and I am learning to find and work with the tools that are shared to pragmatically use from our lessons, articles of early and current workers, as well as diligent practitioner support.

Today, I’m so grateful to have found the way back to the Father-Mother God as explained in Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy and especially to have discovered the Plainfield Independent church with all the loving activities on the internet and over Skype. Bible studies, Roundtables and the 24/7 online library with the early workers’ contributions to the movement are lovingly available to any seeker of truth. That is a strong connection to Plainfield.

Additionally, I’m grateful for the confidence the Plainfield practitioner has shown me beginning in 2014, by letting me translate the weekly Bible Lessons into German and to share it with the field in Germany through the website of the Plainfield Independent church. So, this is exactly 10 years that I have participated in doing this weekly job. More and more I am very grateful that I, and my friend who came to support me, are now connected with two other people, in this church, a team of diligent people to proofread and create beautiful recordings, every week, of the lesson to share with the German speaking field.

With every lesson I get a better understanding of the Bible and Science and Health. The weekly meetings are meaningful enrichment with links to the writings of the early workers, Mrs. Eddy’s other writings and valuable research through YouTube videos and dictionaries. “Who seeks me, shall find me.” (from the Bible) … and that is exactly what I feel about my journey back to the source of Love I had already known 40 years ago. It is amazing to know it has never left me and that God is with me, and never letting go of me as His child.

So many years have gone by and I am a happy grandmother with two very loving grandchildren. My son and his wife made it possible that we had again a lovely Christmas last year and everybody was loving and kind.

All of this feels like a healing that unfolds and enriches which makes me feel quite confident that my belief of up and down takes on a new and better level. I’m so grateful to be able to say this. Feelings of fear about work and money, shame of not being a good mother, unable to protect my son from his abusive father and self-condemnation are vanishing and I am able to present myself as the strong person that I truly am. Love is in control, overcoming false obstacles.

Thank you God for letting me find your wonderful Truth through the Plainfield Independent Church, the teachings of Mrs. Eddy, the Bible, and practitioner help for a deeper understanding of the Science of Christ.