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#12. Ecclesiastes and depression ... (Most recent post 11 November 2001) Please email us your comments for posting to this page. From: "Eddie Miller" <mathed@isat.co.za> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:21:58 -0000 Dear P E Church Net, Much is said about stress and depression and the need to treat it. Be that as it may, Dr Richard Bentall, a leading British psychologist went so far as to say that happy people suffer from a form of insanity which distorts their view of the world and that depressed people are better judges of what people think about them (Sunday Tribune 7 June 1992). Could Dr Bentall have a point? To illustrate a possible interpretation of the above, consider Ecclesiastes 8:14 (the writer of Ecclesiastes was apparently depressed): "There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. Could this not be compared with Proverbs 13:25? " The righteous eat to their hearts' content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry." Is this as accurate as the Ecclesiastes assessment? Eddie Miller Please email us your comments for posting to this page. Back to Discussion Forum Index