Healed from Asperger's syndrome

(written in December 2007)

My name is Benjamin, I'm 17 years old. I will now tell you about I met God for only 3 month ago. He saved me and gave me a whole new life.

The 4th of January 2004 I tried to commit suicide which I luckily didn't have success on. The reason I tried to commit suicide was because a depression I had. After that I was moved to a hospital in Herning where I was guarded 24 hours a day.

In the two weeks I was at the hospital I did only speak with the doctors and psychiatrists 3-4 times. At the end of week number 2 they said that I had a depression and therefore I had to take some pills. They couldn't tell anything else than that. Afterwards I went back to the school but I wasn't able to participate in all of the classes because the dose of medicine the doctors said I should take each day was to much. I was really tired all day long. I was only able to attend in 3-4 lessons each day. I was so tired that I couldn't do anything in my spare time which I had a lot of!

Suddenly I had to take even more medicine, which made me even more tired and unfortunately I gained a lot of weight. I started to talk with a psychologist, after a couple of months she decided to admit me on a place for youth with mental illness. This place was horrible. I got even more depressed and angry by being there. Because of that the staff decided to give me some other pills that are called Efexor. The staff insured my parents that there wasn't any side effects by taking Efexor. That was a lie! I did by myself make some research on the pills and found out that some of the side effects could be; tiredness, nausea, constipation, nervousness, abnormal dreams, muscle cramps, hallucinations and tinnitus. Beside these side effects the Efexor can in some cases give even more suicide thoughts.

I had some of the side effects. Therefore I had to take even more medicine just to oppose the side effect of the Efexor. We confronted the doctors and told that I had made some research and found some side effects the doctors answered very simply that they did know about the side effects of Efexor. As you can tell they were lying to us when they told there were no side effects.
After two months I was of that place for people with mental illness and I got the diagnosis Asperger's Syndrome. The doctors and psychiatrists didn't tell me what that was or why they had decided that I had Asperger's Syndrome. After 3 years I stopped taking the pills. There was something inside me that told me it was wrong that I took the pills. I did actually get a lot better after quitting the pills but from times to others I did also get depressed and had really dark days.

One day at School 2 months ago

In the end of August I started at a gymnasium in Holstebro, where I after one week was thinking of quitting it but I decided to try one more week. When it turned into Friday there was a guy from my Danish class who asked me to sit next to him. That wouldn't harm anyone if I did that so I sat down next to him. The thing I didn't know was that God told him to ask me to sit next to him. We didn't say anything to each other at that time until he saw that I was looking on an ancient god - ba'al. When he saw that he told me that it was wrong and showed me the homepage www.OplevJesus.dk. I used all the weekend on that website. I was reading about all the miracles that God does today. I even told some of me friends that I wasn't going to join them at a party Saturday night. I just wanted to study that website. Sunday afternoon I wrote an e-mail to Torben Søndergaard who is the owner of the homepage. I asked if it was possible for me to visit him to talk more about God and see what if it was true. The things I saw on the website, I just wanted it to be apart of my life. Thursday the 13th of September 2007 I went to Torben's house and we were praying together then I could suddenly feel God's presence. It was amazing. I've never tried anything like that, it must be the best feeling I've ever had in my whole life.
Since that day my life has never been the same. I found the meaning of life. Not just my life but life. The meaning of life is to search and find God!

God is amazing

Today I often tell people about God maybe to often sometimes. According to my boss I do so. Once he told me that if I wanted to preach it had to be in my spare time and not at work. I have to admit that can't hold that commandment. An example of this could be for a few weeks ago one of my colleagues was using crutches on work. The day before he had been at the swimming bath where he had jumped into the water and somehow his heel was knocked against the bottom of the swimming pool and that had caused a fracture on some of the bones in his heel. I asked him if I could pray for his foot. He gave me the permission so I kneel down put my hand on his foot and I prayed Jesus for healing. While I was praying me colleague said he could feel a warm in his foot afterwards he tried to walk a little without the crutches which he could! Some days after he was at work without crutches and while he was beside the boss he pointed to his foot and said that God had healed him. Now he must have open his eyes to see God is real and that it's not just bored people that Sunday after Sunday are listening to the preachers in the churches.
God has changed my life and I pray that he will change yours too.

God bless you.

Benjamin