After years of managing chronic depression and anxiety with medication and faith, Texas megachurch Pastor Tommy Nelson hosted a conference this weekend geared at helping others achieve mental health success using “biblical principles and practical truth.”
Billed “The Journey Through Depression and Anxiety,” Nelson, who leads the Denton Bible Church, hosted the event at Mclean Bible Church in Vienna, Virginia, on Friday night and Saturday morning.
In a recent interview with Fox News Radio Nelson, 68, shared some wisdom on the subject based on his personal struggle with his mental health.
“Depression and anxiety are two sides of the same coin. Sometimes one will have more of this or more of that, but they both come from the premise of the same reason. I became a Christian when I was in college. Before that it was all football and after that it was all ministry,” he said. “I never had to be motivated I was just focused.”
In 2004 when he was about 54, Nelson began experiencing unexplained physical pain.
“I began to notice just my body would be in pain and I didn’t know why. Then it would be sleeplessness. And what it was, was adrenalin was always running and I couldn’t sleep, and then it just spiked on a particular Sunday evening and…
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