Still struggling.

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Just guessing you must be young, not that it's a judgement or anything. I used to suffer from severe depression which resulted in anxiety, but as you grow it will probably subside. It's amazing what we learn as we grow.  You might find the seven year life cycles interesting at least:

http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/every...ou-change/

 I'm definitely familiar with the whole DMT explanation, but after my own personal research that doesn't explain everything. Edgar Cayce was known as the sleeping prophet. Probably the last person I should bring up on this forum haha, but an interesting person to learn about or be aware of. I'm sure I'll get a lot of shite for posting his name.
For me personally even though everyone here will say it's bravo sierra, the NDE is the best evidence of God. Especially since there are hundreds of stories of atheists coming in contact with Jesus, and God, or visiting various spiritual realms. The common theme people here react with is that they are lying, or delusional. Obviously because they want to protect their belief system.
http://www.near-death.com/science/research.html
Don't give up. God loves us all too much, and only wants what's best. The last thing you should do is turn your back, because your senses can't percieve his existence. The truth is there to find if you want to find it.

I am young, Depression seems common among younger people though.
I've already heard about the 7 year cycle, very interesting. I think Vsauce talked about it.
Well, DMT has been known to produce similar effects as "seeing god" and we have a gland to produce it, so it must have some evolutionary basis. As for Atheist coming in to contact with god, Christians have come into contact with Muhammad or Allah. Your point?
If god loves me he was so perfect to make me mentally ill. If he wants whats best then he shouldn't have made me this way and maybe he shouldn't take such pains to conceal his existence. I don't understand that phrase at the end, please elaborate.

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Re-read the sentence.  He's saying that preachers are like used car salesmen, not that you're a preacher

And pay no mind to Scooby's ridiculous NDE crap.  Stories from obvious non-skeptics who don't understand biology (if they're not simply liars, which has been the case before) aren't very compelling, regardless of whether or not they once labelled themselves atheist.  He's been trying to push the tired "They were once atheists, but now have found god!  Aren't you impressed/doubting yourselves?" thing since he got here, and is likely trying it in this thread because you present an easy target.  You know Christians - they simply cannot abide anyone attempting to leave the flock.

Misunderstood that, sorry.

Well I would say atheists don't want people to leave the flock either from what I have experienced over the years and on this forum. Atheism has many different dogmas as well. Dig deep enough in this forum and you will find they disagree on what atheism actually means. In the end all perception of reality is sum of experiences, and I can't say that enough.

Part of understanding is accepting. From your perspective, you need to understand why you are the way you are. Is it a mental defect, or a challenge given to you to overcome? Trust me I used to curse God, and life for all the things I had to go through, but in the end it made me a stronger person, after time. Time is the key thing. All souls come to earth to inhabit human bodies for the life of the body, and accept the challenges that body will have. It's part of our learning process, and essential to our learning and wisdom. You can only overcome through challenges, and what you are in now is a challenge to help you grow, and create who you will grow into and become in the future. You will be a lot wiser than those who have not had your challenges and instead have had an easier life. Although we all have our challenges in life, through them we overcome them for ourselves to learn from them and grow. And with that growth we can help others, and the  process continues for all souls to experience the life in the physical realm so we are stronger and wiser when we enter back into the spiritual realm.

Just remember that you are young, and trust me as you get older things will become more clear. I can give you information, but you must grow to achieve the wisdom of experience. Trust me.

Check out this link about the purpose of life.

http://www.near-death.com/science/research/life.html

This song is also a good reminder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpU_73CXxU