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William Styron
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- Depression
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self – to the mediating intellect – as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus rema...
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Depression is a Thief
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Sergei Marchenko
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2 Corinthians 1:3-4, John 16:33
Depression is a thief. A pickpocket. Swiping a memory here and there. An emotion, a plan for the afternoon, part of a conversation. It is a burglar. Leaving behind empty surfaces and containers that u...
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- Depression
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always coura...
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Mal McKissock and Dianne McKissock
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- Grief
- Depression
Put simply, depression is ‘of the head’—that is, an illness involving the way we think—and grief is ‘of the heart’, the way we feel.
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What It’s Like to Live with Depression
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Matt Perman
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- Depression
- Mental Health
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Job 6:2-3, Galatians 6:2, Romans 12:15, Isaiah 40:29, Matthew 11:28-30, 2 Corinthians 1:8-9, Psalm 42:11
We finally discovered that what I had was depression. I had battled depression before, but for some reason this time it caught me off guard. At one point, I met with a group of people who wanted to kn...
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Gillian Marchenko
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- Depression
- Mental Illness
I think of depression as a visitor who comes more often, uninvited, unwelcomed, and stays longer than ever before.
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A Day in the Life of Someone Living with Depression
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Ryan Casey Waller
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- Depression
- Mental Health
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Psalm 13:1-2, Isaiah 61:3, Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Psalm 34:18
Depression takes so many forms. Here’s how it looked for me today: All day I felt like a failure. An unending loop played in my head telling me that I have failed everyone in my life who loves me. My ...
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The Volcanic Nature of Depression
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Mark Meynell
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- Depression
Depression has felt volcanic at times. It may lie relatively dormant for some time, while its lava and force are constantly shielded beneath the tectonic plates. Without warning, it then forces its wa...
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Finding Our True Selves While Battling Depression
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Gillian Marchenko
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Psalm 139:11-12, 2 Corinthians 1:8-9, Job 3:11, Isaiah 42:3, Psalm 88:18
In her compelling memoir Still Life , author Gillian Marchenko recounts her struggles with depression. In this excerpt, Marchenko describes one of the many paradoxes that come with depression: how ...
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Harry Potter’s Dementors & Depression
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Mark Meynell
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Isaiah 40:29-31, Job 3:25-26, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, John 16:33, Psalm 34:17-18
When J. K. Rowling created the Harry Potter universe, she naturally drew on her own experiences to flesh it out. This is true even for such alarming creatures as ‘dementors’. These are soulless beings...
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Gillian Marchenko
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- Depression
One of the biggest tragedies of depression is myopia. You cannot see beyond your own nose.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Psalm 34:18, Isaiah 41:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Romans 8:18, 1 Peter 5:10, James 1:2-4, Galatians 6:9
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
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Gregg Easterbrook
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Adjusting for population growth, ten times as many people in the Western nations today suffer from “unipolar” depression, or unremitting bad feelings without a specific cause, than did half a century ...
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A Great Killer
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Daniel G. Amen
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- Depression
- Suicide
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John 10:10, Proverbs 18:14, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 61:1-3, Psalm 42:11
Depression is one of the greatest killers of our time. It affects 50 million Americans at some point in their lives and has increased 400 percent since 1987. Depression is associated with suicide, div...
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A Bone Fracture & Mental Illness
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Mark Meynell
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- Depression
- Mental Illness
I sense that mental illness resembles a bone fracture. Bones have remarkable durability, but also, once broken, can rapidly heal and be reset. With normal daily use, one might never be aware of past p...
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Chuck Palahniuk
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- Depression
- Spiritual Warfare
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
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Keeping Faith in the Silence
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Gillian Marchenko
Keywords
- Depression
- Silence
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John 20:27, Lamentations 3:8, Job 23:8-9, Romans 8:26, Isaiah 45:15, Matthew 27:46, Psalm 13:1-2
In her compelling memoir Still Life , author Gillian Marchenko recounts her struggles with depression: Yes, but what about Jesus?” friends ask later on. It is a valid question. If others look at ...
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Craig Groeschel
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In recent years, an entire discipline of modern psychology has developed called cognitive behavioral therapy. This breakthrough teaching reveals that many problems, from eating disorders to relational...
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Mental Health Today
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Alan Noble
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1 Kings 19:1-18, Job 3:6-7, Lamentations 3:17-26, Matthew 26:36-46, 2 Corinthians 1:3-11, Psalm 42:5-11
We don’t know what we are doing, and I think this is especially true about the way our society deals with mental health. In just the past fifteen years, I have witnessed a massive shift in how evangel...
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Waiting Time
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Andy Stanley
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In I Was Wrong, televangelist Jim Bakker describes the terrible depression he went through while in prison in the 1990s for fraud and conspiracy. During one of his lowest moments, he received an encou...
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Gillian Marchenko
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When I can, I do my best to keep up the farce of who I pretend to be. [while suffering from severe depression]
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Approaches to Mental Health are not Enough
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Caroline Leaf
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Modern psychological and psychiatric approaches to mental health, particularly the use of drugs like antidepressants and antipsychotics, don’t address the complexity of the human mind. Indeed, they ha...
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Father: Thank You for always being
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Richard Herman
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Psalm 34:14, Luke 15:20, Hebrews 4:14, Romans 6:4, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Psalm 25:4-5, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 41:10, John 14:13, James 1:5, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Habakkuk 3:2, Isaiah 6:8, Matthew 28:19-20
Father: Thank You for always being ready to welcome us and listen to us. Thank You for sending Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Savior: born like us, experiencing all that we experience yet sinless, who d...
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Abba – Father: Because of Your love and
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Richard Herman
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Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6, Psalm 23:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Philippians 4:6-7, Jeremiah 29:11
Abba – Father: Because of Your love and strength, we trust You … believing You are faithful, true and gracious. Thank You for coming into our world when we could not and would not come to You. You wal...
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God of grace and truth, holy and
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Richard Herman
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Philippians 4:6-7, 1 Peter 5:7, Romans 8:38-39, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 41:10
God of grace and truth, holy and compassionate—Father, Son and Holy Spirit: You hold the universe in Your hands and earth’s oceans hardly moisten Your palm; yet—You number the hairs of our heads and k...
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God of grace, power and glory, and our
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Richard Herman
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God of grace, power and glory, and our Heavenly Father: You raise up nations in your grace and holiness; and You bring down nations who go after and serve other gods of their own making. You are good–...
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God—We’d like to have had a Hallmark
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Richard Herman
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God—We’d like to have had a Hallmark card kind of week: gentle, quiet and serene, but it’s been anything but that. People died this week—and families and friends grieve. A man got bad news about cance...
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Jesus: You gave us Your love at a high
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Richard Herman
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1 Timothy 2:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Hebrews 13:20-21, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 5:20
Jesus: You gave us Your love at a high price – Your own death on the cross in our place! By Your grace you give us eternal life and entrust to us Your creation. Thank You, Lord! We come today as Y...
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An Unexpected Friendship
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Galatians 6:2, Psalm 34:18, Proverbs 19:11, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32, Luke 6:37
Sometimes moments of forgiveness and friendship come from unexpected places. In 2018, the comedian Pete Davidson appeared on the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday Night Live (SNL). Davidson made a ...
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Ruth Burrows
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I was born into this world with a tortured sensitivity. For long I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.