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I like Zack Eswine’s writing.
In Spurgeon’s Sorrows Eswine sensitively considers the experience of depression, using Charles Spurgeon’s experiences and writings as a reference point.
Such are the variations in depression I’m loathe to generalise or make it look like there are universal treatments that will bring relief.
It’s not a long book, but it is sensitive and constructive.

Here’s the book’s blurb:

Christians should have the answers, shouldn’t they? Depression affects many people both personally and through the ones we love. Here Zack Eswine draws from C.H Spurgeon, ‘the Prince of Preachers’ experience to encourage us. What Spurgeon found in his darkness can serve as a light in our own darkness. Zack Eswine brings you here, not a self-help guide, rather ‘a handwritten note of one who wishes you well.’