“But I’ve checked and double-checked and confirmed and quadruple-confirmed that I’m supposed to be there,” Welch continued. “So I don’t care what anybody says. God just puts his hand on it and I just see him all the time. So that’s all I’m focused on.”
Welch was transparent with his struggles after being asked what God has been teaching him lately. “I [have] struggled with depression for most of my life,” he said. “And I had stopped taking all depression medication when I came to Christ, [because] I was just so high on the reality that he showed me he is real.”
“But after about a year,” he continued, “the depression came back, and I didn’t want to go back on the medication.” Nevertheless, Welch eventually relented.
After a couple of years, Welch shared that he started noticing side effects from the depression medication, so he slowly weaned himself off of it. He said the process took him two years.
Welch: ‘[God] Is Still Healing Me’
“When I finally stopped all of it, it was like I took a bunch of steps backwards. I felt like I can’t control my emotions [and] I’m treating people wrong,” Welch shared. He expressed that he felt he was losing 20 years of emotional growth, adding, “I’m like, ‘Are you serious?'”
Welch shared that he has asked God for a lot of forgiveness as he allows his body to heal.
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“He’s still healing me. So that stuff that maybe the medication just put a Band-Aid on, [God] wants to deal with that stuff now—so I’m just letting him. So that’s what I’m learning right now,” said Welch.
“Even though I mess up a lot,” Welch added, “he just keeps doing new things. There’s a balance of suffering and just increase in blessings every year…all the hard times are worth it. He makes everything worth it.”
‘[God] Started Breaking Off Religious Mindsets’ Before Welch Returned to Korn
Discussing his departure from Korn in 2005, Welch said that while he knew he was supposed leave the band, he didn’t know what he was going to do. But he shared that the Holy Spirit prompted him to “just follow me, that’s all. You don’t gotta know what you’re gonna do.”
“And I didn’t know what I was gonna do, and I was a wandering man in the desert for a lot of years, even though I was doing music,” he said. “I was barely making it.”
