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Lifelong Bipolar
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition that can impact many important areas of your life. It can affect both how you feel and how you act, as well as the...
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Choosing a Christian Counselor
By “Holly”, When I was deep in the throes of postpartum depression and seeking help from an outside source, I admit that I was in too much of a fog to make a rational, informed decision about who I...
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Medication: An Interview with Andrew Solomon
What do you say to people who ask if you’ll eventually stop taking medication? I say to people that they don’t expect a diabetic to stop taking insulin, or someone with a heart condition to stop...
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Numbers Don’t Lie: Mental Illness in America
Mental Illness in America, 2013 Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from...
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Sporadic Havoc and Painful Places
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9, NLT We are the wounded. What exactly has caused it isn’t always known. A...
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Schizophrenia, An Opportunity to Love
Do you know someone who seems like he or she has “lost touch” with reality? Does this person talk about “hearing voices” no one else can? Does he or she see or feel things no one else can? Does this...
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Rainy Day People: Counseling Others in the Storm
“Rainy day people always seem to know when it’s time to call, Rainy day people don’t talk, they just listen till they’ve heard it all. Rainy day lovers don’t lie when they tell ‘ya they’ve been down...
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Medication: An Interview with Andrew Solomon
What do you say to people who ask if you’ll eventually stop taking medication? I say to people that they don’t expect a diabetic to stop taking insulin, or someone with a heart condition to stop taking...
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Numbers Don’t Lie: Mental Illness in America
Mental Illness in America, 2013 Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from...
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World Bipolar Day, March 30th
The vision of World Bipolar Day is to bring world awareness to bipolar disorders and to eliminate social stigma. World Bipolar Day (WBD) – an initiative of the Asian Network of Bipolar Disorder (ANBD),...
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A Slice of Bryan
The ‘Annex’ is an out-patient facility providing support for the mentally ill in our community right here in Homer, Alaska. It is one of the service components of ‘the Center’ which oversees...
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Dangerous Thinking
Anne Lamott is a writer and a person who understands mental illness and ‘recovery’ issues. She is also a ‘brokenbeliever’. I have read several of her books; she writes elegantly on faith and...
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All in Your Head?
Depression is a Mental Disorder, not a Disease There are plausible arguments for the non-existence of mental illness. But there are still people who declare themselves to have a mental illness. After...
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Choosing a Christian Counselor
Written by “Holly,” “In my search for a counselor, I visited a secular psychologist, read books written by extremist biblical counselors, and had tearful talks with my own general practitioner. I...
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The Only Army that Shoots its Wounded
Exposing the Myth that Christians Should Not Have Emotional Problems By Dwight L. Carlson From an article in Christianity Today, February 9, 1998 “The only army that shoots its wounded is the...
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When Despair Empties You
“It is through much tribulation that we enter the kingdom of Heaven.” The Apostle Paul As a broken believer this happens. I breakdown, my faith is questioned, and I feel all alone. Issues like a...
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Rainy Day People
“Rainy day people always seem to know when it’s time to call, Rainy day people don’t talk, they just listen till they’ve heard it all. Rainy day lovers don’t lie when they tell ‘ya they’ve been down...
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From a Mental Hospital Ward
3 “For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.” Psalm 143:3 Some time ago, I was hospitalized for my mental illness....
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Mental Illness in Children & Teens
Does your child go through intense mood changes? Does your child have extreme behavior changes too? Does your child get too excited or silly sometimes? Do you notice he or she is very sad at other...
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Bone Tired Weariness
8 “Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you...
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