Depression
Pastoring and Suicidal: Insights from a Pastor Who Has Been There
The loss of yet another pastor to suicide this week was not a surprise to me. Why? Because handling the challenges of modern-day ministry and
Category: Depression
How to Support Our Children with Depression
After an initial diagnosis of depression, the best thing you can do is become informed, for you and your child. Jumo Health, a digital health resource for families, offers a depression discussion guide which provides questions to help foster conversation with a doctor after a diagnosis.
Life Is 10% What Happens to You and 90% How You React to It
The truth is that everyone faces something in life. Living can quickly suck the life right out of any and everyone. Bipolar disorder is just one of the many obstacles found in this “thing” we call life.
Depression
Facing Real Together by Lindsay Hausch
There is a sacred space we enter with another person when we can let them feel what they are feeling without avoidance, advice, judgement, or tense discomfort. Simply to tell them, “I’m here and I love you.”
How to Support Our Children with Depression
After an initial diagnosis of depression, the best thing you can do is become informed, for you and your child. Jumo Health, a digital health resource for families, offers a depression discussion guide which provides questions to help foster conversation with a doctor after a diagnosis.
Real Hope Has Gotten Me Through My Hopelessness
Probably one of the most peculiar things about hope and hopelessness is that they can co-exist in life. When I reflect on the greatest difficulties and deepest depression that caused extreme despair in my life, it was hope that got me through the hopelessness. But it was not the “wishful-thinking” kind of hope that life would get better that got me through the hopelessness. That kind of “hope” is nothing more than wishful thinking that things may or may not get better. And that kind of hope was not enough for me. Hoping that things might get better could not even bring about the smallest of cracks within my despair.
Depression
Facing Real Together by Lindsay Hausch
There is a sacred space we enter with another person when we can let them feel what they are feeling without avoidance, advice, judgement, or tense discomfort. Simply to tell them, “I’m here and I love you.”
Depression
Choosing Hope in the Face of Hopelessness
For years prior to this interruption I had felt as though I had a monster inside of me that I had to manage.
Insights for Someone Who Has Been Newly Diagnosed with a Mental Health Issue
Have you been newly diagnosed with a mental health issue? It can be overwhelming, to say the least. Through the years of finding the path to living well in spite of having a mental health diagnosis, I’ve come up with a list of a few things to do when newly diagnosed.
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