Brad,

While we cannot blame the Bible for making us depressed, I think that the 
enemy can use people who misuse God's words to, for example, frighten us 
into salvation, telling us where we fail, hit us over the head with it, 
saying we should do this or that, and more and more.  When someone, like me, 
has obsessive compulsive disorder or any other diagnosed mental problem that 
affects how we see spiritual things, all this can have a negative effect, 
like, if these people can be so wicked and thus go to Hell, I probably have 
a very good chance of going there myself, because I do terrible things, 
mostly in my head and seemingly in my heart, and I feel that I don't want to 
change and serve God, and I'm afraid I'll do something irrevocable!  I 
realize that many people may go through such periods of discouragement, but 
for others, it goes on and on.  I'm not saying this to get anyone to feel 
sorry for me, but just to understand.

Sharon