Doing mental health recovery alone is next to impossible. Those who have the support, love and understanding of family and/or a few close friends simply do better in the long run. If you don’t have those who are supportive in your life I strongly recommend that you find a good positive mental health support group and find the support and care that you need.
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.
I had the chance to make this short video several years ago when I was a presenter at Saddleback Church’s Mental Health Conference.
There are positive things you can do to make a difference. Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t.
Depression is like quick-sand. Your loved one may be stuck. Stuck with a lack of energy, stuck in loneliness, stuck in isolation, stuck unable to
There’s an Elephant in the sanctuary! And pastors need to see this video to help them realize how serious their lack of understanding is regarding mental illness. Why? Because more people go first to a clergy than to their doctor, a therapist, a psychologist and/or psychiatrist combined! Pastors are on the front lines of the mental health crisis! Please watch this video and share it on social media, it’s one way to begin to address the “elephant” in the sanctuary!
Self-care begins with self-respect.You have been deeply loved by God. You are one of His masterpieces. Self-care flows from God’s love. “Love your neighbor as
When you and I connect with one another we empower each other to live well in spite of any possible daily battles with our disorder. Individually, no one of us all the answers. But, together we have answers for one another.
There’s a difference between surviving and thriving. Coping verses really living well. In this edition Pastor Brad Hoefs talk about that difference and challenges you, the listener, to ask yourself some important questions about whether you are just surviving or truly thriving in spite of your mental health diagnosis or situation that you find yourself in in life.
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