📱 Mental Health Assessment Tool
🌍 Available in 15 Languages
3 Clinically Validated Assessments:
😔 PHQ-9: Depression screening (9 questions)
😰 GAD-7: Anxiety screening (7 questions)
💉 DDS-17: Diabetes Distress Scale (17 questions)
🔒 100% Private & Confidential – No data collected or stored
Complete Assessment Tool Features
PHQ-9: Depression Screening
The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a clinically-validated 9-item assessment measuring depression severity over the past 2 weeks.
Sample Questions Include:
- Little interest or pleasure in doing things
- Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
- Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much
- Feeling tired or having little energy
- Poor appetite or overeating
GAD-7: Anxiety Screening
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) is a 7-item assessment for measuring anxiety levels.
DDS-17: Diabetes Distress Scale
The Diabetes Distress Scale assesses diabetes-specific emotional burden across 4 key domains:
- Emotional Burden: Feeling overwhelmed by diabetes demands
- Physician-Related Distress: Concerns about healthcare relationships
- Regimen-Related Distress: Frustration with daily management
- Interpersonal Distress: Lack of support from loved ones
What Happens After You Complete the Assessment:
- ✅ Instant scoring and results
- ✅ Severity level identification (Minimal, Mild, Moderate, Severe)
- ✅ Personalized recommendations based on your score
- ✅ Crisis resources if needed (988 Lifeline, Crisis Text Line)
- ✅ Biblical encouragement and scripture
- ✅ Professional help resources
- ✅ Printable results to share with your doctor
🔒 Your Privacy is Guaranteed
This tool runs entirely on your device. NO data is collected, stored, transmitted, or tracked. Your responses never leave your browser. We cannot see or access anything you enter.
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Depression and Diabetes
Breaking the Silence on the Hidden Struggle
📋 What You’ll Learn:
- Why diabetics are 2-3x more likely to experience depression
- Biological, psychological, and social causes
- Warning signs of depression in diabetics
- Biblical examples: Elijah’s depression, Jesus in Gethsemane
- 10 evidence-based strategies for relief
- Crisis resources and professional help options
💔 You’re Not Alone in This Dark Valley
Living with diabetes is more than managing blood sugar numbers. It’s waking up every day to an invisible burden that never takes a vacation. It’s the constant mental calculations, the guilt after every meal, the fear of complications, and the exhaustion of being your own pancreas 24/7.
📊 The Shocking Statistics
🧠 Why Does Diabetes Cause Depression?
1. Biological Factors
Chronic inflammation, blood sugar fluctuations, and hormonal disruption all affect brain chemistry—particularly serotonin and dopamine.
2. Psychological Burden
Making 180+ decisions per day related to diabetes management creates immense mental load.
📖 Biblical Hope: The Story of Elijah
In 1 Kings 19, the mighty prophet Elijah fell into deep depression and was suicidal:
“I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” — 1 Kings 19:4 (NIV)
God’s response:
- God let him rest
- God fed him
- God listened to him
- God revealed Himself gently
- God gave him new purpose and community
God met Elijah’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. He does the same for you.
💪 Practical Steps to Healing
- Seek Professional Help: Therapy (especially CBT) and medication can be life-saving
- Optimize Diabetes Management: Better blood sugar control improves mood
- Move Your Body: 30 minutes of exercise 5x/week is as effective as antidepressants
- Cultivate Spiritual Practices: Prayer, Scripture, worship, community
- Practice Self-Compassion: Replace self-judgment with kindness
🙏 A Prayer for You Today
Heavenly Father,
I lift up every person reading these words who is struggling with diabetes and depression. You see their tears. You know their exhaustion. You understand their pain.
Would You draw near to them right now? Give them courage to reach out for help. Provide compassionate doctors, skilled therapists, and supportive community.
Remind them that their worth is not found in their HbA1c—it’s found in being Your beloved child, perfectly loved and never abandoned.
In Jesus’ powerful name,
Amen. 🙏
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Anxiety and Diabetes
When Fear Becomes Your Constant Companion
📋 What You’ll Learn:
- Why 40% of diabetics experience significant anxiety
- How low blood sugar mimics panic attacks
- Fear of hypoglycemia and how to manage it
- Jesus’ own experience with anxiety
- The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique
- Breathing exercises that reduce anxiety by 44%
💭 The 3 AM Wake-Up Call
The “what ifs” never stop. Welcome to anxiety with diabetes—a relentless companion that turns every blood sugar reading into a crisis.
📊 The Alarming Statistics
🧠 Why Does Diabetes Cause Anxiety?
Blood Sugar Mimics Panic Attacks
When your blood sugar drops, your body releases stress hormones that create sensations identical to a panic attack:
- Racing heart ❤️🔥
- Sweating 💦
- Trembling 🫨
- Dizziness 😵
- Sense of impending doom 😰
Your brain can’t tell the difference between low blood sugar and genuine danger.
📖 Biblical Comfort
Jesus Understands Your Anxiety
In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus experienced profound distress. He was “deeply distressed and troubled” and experienced anxiety so intense that He sweat drops of blood.
“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” — Matthew 26:38 (NIV)
Your Savior knows what it’s like to be consumed by fear.
💪 Evidence-Based Strategies
1. The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
When anxiety strikes:
- 5 things you can see 👀
- 4 things you can touch 🖐️
- 3 things you can hear 👂
- 2 things you can smell 👃
- 1 thing you can taste 👅
2. Diaphragmatic Breathing
- Breathe in for 4 counts
- Hold for 4 counts
- Breathe out for 6 counts
- Repeat for 5 minutes
Studies show this reduces anxiety by 44%.
🙏 A Prayer for Your Anxious Heart
Heavenly Father,
I come to You on behalf of every person imprisoned by anxiety. They are exhausted from constant worry. Break the chains of anxiety right now—not because they’re suddenly “strong enough,” but because YOU are strong enough.
Give them Your supernatural peace—the kind that doesn’t make sense, that transcends understanding, that guards their hearts even in the storm.
In Jesus’ powerful name,
Amen. 🙏
Diabetes Distress
When the Daily Burden Becomes Too Heavy
📋 What You’ll Learn:
- 45% of diabetics experience diabetes distress
- How distress differs from clinical depression
- The 4 types: Emotional, Physician, Regimen, Interpersonal
- Jesus’ invitation to the weary and burdened
- Permission to rest and simplify
- Practical strategies to reduce distress
😓 The Exhaustion That Has No Name
Before your feet hit the floor: Check blood sugar. Calculate insulin. Count carbs. 180+ decisions before lunch.
😩 The Four Faces of Diabetes Distress
1. Emotional Burden 💔
“Diabetes controls my life” | “I feel scared when I think about living with diabetes”
2. Physician-Related Distress 🩺
“My doctor doesn’t take my concerns seriously”
3. Regimen-Related Distress 📋
“I feel like I’m failing at my routine”
4. Interpersonal Distress 👥
“I feel alone in dealing with diabetes”
💪 Strategies to Reduce Distress
- Simplify Your Regimen: Reduce complexity with your healthcare team
- Reframe “Failure” as “Data”: Numbers are information, not judgments
- Practice Self-Compassion: Treat yourself like you’d treat a friend
- Take Strategic Breaks: Give yourself permission to rest
🙏 A Prayer for the Weary
Loving Father,
I lift up every exhausted soul. They are so tired—tired of managing, monitoring, calculating, worrying.
Meet them in this place of exhaustion. Show them that Your yoke truly is easy and Your burden light—not because diabetes becomes easy, but because You carry the weight with them.
Give them permission to rest, courage to simplify, and help them know their worth has nothing to do with their HbA1c.
In Jesus’ gentle name,
Amen. 🙏
Biblical Healing & Mental Health
What Scripture Really Says
📋 What You’ll Learn:
- Why mental illness is NOT a sin
- 12 biblical characters who struggled mentally
- Why medication isn’t a lack of faith
- Spiritual warfare vs. mental illness
- How Jesus treated the suffering
- Debunking harmful theology
✝️ The Lie We’ve Been Told
If you’ve been told your mental health struggles are sin or that you lack faith, you’ve experienced spiritual abuse.
📖 What the Bible REALLY Says
Truth #1: Mental Illness Is Not a Sin
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” — Romans 8:1 (NIV)
Truth #2: Biblical Characters Struggled
- Elijah – Suicidal depression (1 Kings 19)
- David – Anxiety and depression (Psalms)
- Job – Severe depression (Job 3)
- Jonah – Wished to die (Jonah 4:3)
- Moses – Asked God to kill him (Numbers 11:15)
Truth #3: Jesus Experienced Emotional Distress
“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” — Matthew 26:38 (NIV)
Jesus sweat drops of blood from stress. If the sinless Son of God experienced distress, we cannot call suffering sin.
🙏 Is Medication a Lack of Faith?
Consider this: Do you take insulin? Wear glasses? Take antibiotics? Then why treat brain chemistry differently than pancreas chemistry?
God Uses Medicine
“Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.” — Isaiah 38:21 (NIV)
🙏 A Prayer for Theological Clarity
Heavenly Father,
For those who have been told their struggles are sin—would You heal those wounds? Speak truth over the lies.
Help us remember: You created our brains, You understand their complexity, and You work through medicine, therapy, and many means to bring healing.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen. 🙏
Strength Made Perfect in Weakness
Finding God’s Power in Your Struggle
📋 What You’ll Learn:
- Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” as chronic illness
- Why God sometimes doesn’t heal
- 5 biblical paradoxes that transform suffering
- The difference between healing and wholeness
- What “sufficient grace” looks like daily
- Finding purpose in limitation
💪 The Prayer God Didn’t Answer
“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.” — 2 Corinthians 12:8 (NIV)
🙏 Five Biblical Paradoxes
Paradox #1: Weak = Strong
“When I am weak, then I am strong.” — 2 Corinthians 12:10
Paradox #2: Loss = Gain
“I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ.” — Philippians 3:8
Paradox #3: Suffering = Glory
“Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory.” — 2 Corinthians 4:17
Paradox #4: Death = Life
“I die every day.” — 1 Corinthians 15:31
Paradox #5: Last = First
“The last will be first, and the first will be last.” — Matthew 20:16
🙏 A Prayer for Sufficient Grace
Heavenly Father,
Like Paul, I’ve prayed for this thorn to be removed. And like Paul, it remains.
Help me hear: “My grace is sufficient.” Not WAS sufficient—past tense. Not WILL BE sufficient—future tense. But IS sufficient—present tense. Right now. Today.
Teach me that weakness isn’t the absence of Your power—it’s the stage where Your power performs.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen. 🙏
Why Church Needs to Talk About Mental Health
Creating Safe Spaces in Faith Communities
📋 What You’ll Learn:
- Why 75% of Christians hide struggles
- What “bearing burdens” really means
- 10 ways churches can create safe spaces
- The body of Christ as healing community
- Stopping harmful phrases
- Breaking the silence without breaking faith
⛪ The Silent Suffering in Our Pews
Sarah sat in the parking lot crying while people inside sang “How Great Is Our God.” Her diabetes was out of control, her depression crushing, and she was terrified to tell anyone.
📊 The Silent Crisis
💪 How Churches Can Help
- Preach About Mental Health
- Get Trained in Mental Health First Aid
- Build Mental Health Ministries
- Partner with Professionals
- Model Vulnerability from leadership
- Stop Harmful Phrases like “just pray about it”
- Take Practical Action (meals, rides, childcare)
- Create Safe Small Groups
- Check on People Regularly
- Normalize Therapy and Medication
🙏 A Prayer for the Church
Heavenly Father,
We confess Your Church hasn’t always been a safe place for the suffering. Forgive us for times we’ve said “just pray” when we should have said “let me help you find a counselor.”
Transform Your Church into what You designed: a hospital for the sick, not a museum for the perfect. Help us create spaces where honesty is welcomed, weakness is honored, and help is practical.
May we truly carry each other’s burdens.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen. 🙏
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