Through God, Lydia Maier has been freed from anorexia, depression, anxiety, and self-harm

At age seven, Lydia experienced an unspecified traumatic event. About a year later, she briefly attended therapy, which she hated due to having to relive the trauma. She even experienced a panic attack en route to therapy.

Eventually, she appeared to stabilize and was okay until she hit her mid-teens. Then, she became depressed, lost motivation, slept a lot, and was unable to pay attention in school. Lydia was placed on medication for an erroneous diagnosis (ADHD).

Lydia’s mental health struggle escalated a few years later when one of her friends died. She began self-harm and eating disorder behaviors and got entangled with the mental health industry again. Her first antidepressant increased her suicidality, and she started frequenting psychiatric hospitals. She was plied with more than twenty-five different psych meds by her early twenties. None worked but rather caused her more problems. Her moods continued to be unstable, and she had two suicide attempts.

One psychiatric hospital rejected her as a patient due to her eating disorder. About a half a dozen eating disorder rehabilitation centers rejected her due to her depression.

In 2017, Lydia landed in the ICU when she attempted suicide by overdose. Upon recovering, she spent some time in a Christian rehabilitation center. They discontinued her psych meds abruptly and treated her rather harshly. Overwhelmed by tormenting voices, she banged her head on the floor, which resulted in her going back to a psych hospital.

She looked into getting admitted to a Christian rehabilitation center that allowed psych meds but backed off when a therapist there told her, “You have bipolar, and you are going to be on medication for the rest of your life.”

Lydia tried ketamine, but she didn’t use it correctly and once nearly stopped breathing. She briefly tried electroconvulsive therapy; during these sessions, her mother and fellow Christians prayed that her brain be preserved from damage.

Lydia’s life took a positive turn when she went on a mission trip to India, which she enjoyed despite her depression. Three years later, she had the opportunity to go again. Before she went, she perceived that God told her she would meet her husband in India.

And she did. A German team joined up with Lydia’s American team, and Lydia met a Swiss man named Samuel. They got to know each other and eventually married.

Samuel did not approve of psych meds and expected her to discontinue them. Lydia tapered off one of her meds but became irritable – argumentative and easily offended.

After she had quit one medication, God told her, “Don’t take your morning medication.” Lydia obeyed, and she went on to quit another med. Her moods continued to roller coaster.

Lydia observed that prayer made her angry, and she shared this with Samuel. She now recounts, “Samuel led me in a prayer that night, and I repeated after him, and somehow everything just got lifted off. And it was such a weird, beautiful moment that I wasn’t expecting at all. And from that moment on, everything started to really change… [T]he depression had completely gone. With my eating disorder, I was positive that I was 100% recovered… I knew [God] was all-powerful… but really surrendering, really letting everything go, letting Samuel lead me… and also giving everything to God… the last piece was letting those medications go… And I did it, and now life is so, so cool. It’s the best thing ever. I am so happy; I am so joyful… [J]oy is from the Lord… and I feel His joy.”

Jesus delivered Leslie from borderline personality, over two decades of meth addiction, post traumatic stress, and fibromyalgia

Born to a gangster father and mentally ill mother, Leslie had a traumatic childhood. She got into drugs when she hit her teens, and five years later she was a meth addict.

In her late twenties, Leslie ended up at a treatment center, where she received a variety of diagnoses, including PTSD. She managed to get sober and stayed that way for several years. Married with two children, she led a busy life being a “soccer mom,” studying to be a geriatric RN, and even starting her own business.

Then, she relapsed and was swamped with suicidal thoughts. Though she previously “never wanted anything to do with God,” she consented to a friend’s advice to go get prayer. To her surprise, the prayer worked and the suicidal thoughts stopped. She realized “Jesus is real.” However, though she had been given instructions on how to maintain her deliverance, she went back to the drugs.

That move destroyed her life. She had some experiences that filled her with fear, unforgiveness, anger, and bitterness. Ultimately, she was unable to finish her degree, her marriage failed, and her kids were taken from her. She received a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, suffered severe pain from fibromyalgia, and became “out of control” and “very, very dangerous.” She also had to do aquatic physical therapy due to having “lost 70% of the function in [her] muscles.” Overall, she was essentially unable to function in life.

Leslie sought help from doctors, but medication brought no improvement. She spent days searching the entire USA for anyone who could help her, once finding a clinic in Texas that charged $32,000 to treat borderline personality.

Then, Leslie experienced a “divine intervention with Jesus.” During the episodes of rage she experienced, she used to shut her eyes and see scary faces and darkness. She had another of these fits, but when she shut her eyes, she instead saw Jesus, green grass, and a couple of doves. Leslie now says, “From that day on, I was free from a 23 year meth addiction, and it was amazing.”

However, her other problems remained. A few weeks later, Leslie accepted an invite to church and began attending Bible study. At one point, she heard a woman give her testimony of God transforming her life. Inspired, she had faith God was going to heal her.

Leslie began attending a women’s ministry called Beautiful Restoration, where she was taught how to apply the word of God. She began to verbalize relevant scriptures against her mental health symptoms. She now shares that “it was amazing to see that things began to change.”

Desperate for change, Leslie found a Youtube video discussing deliverance from borderline personality. Then, God told her, “Leslie, you need to be delivered from generational curses.” Quickly, Leslie followed through and she received deliverance from generation curses through the ministry she was attending. As the spirits were ordered out of her, she could physically feel them emerging from her shoulders, the area most affected by the fibromyalgia pain. Interestingly enough, the spirits exited the house through the front door (she heard this happening).

Leslie now testifies, “Going into that prayer session, I was on 16 different medications… I was in aquatic physical therapy every week, I was seen by doctors several times a week, and from that prayer session, I was completely healed and set free and delivered from every diagnosis the doctors had given me.”

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