There can be a silence among families (particularly intergenerationally) about mental illness. Sometimes that’s done out of a sense of embarrassment or a well meaning desire to maintain privacy. What it achieves are walls that mean when later generations experience mental illness they feel isolated in that it doesn’t always occur to them that their …

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This is an article by Brad Hambrick, published by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. These ten types of thinking are described as fuelling the depressive-anxious experience. From personal experience they certainly resonate. It would be helpful to understand that this is not a matter of identifying these in others …

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Church is meant to be the one place on earth where people can come just as themselves and feel welcome and at home. But it’s not always the case. I found these seven reasons provided by Stephen Grcevich to make sense. It’s helpful to read what is obvious when made plain, but is so easy …

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