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Depression

#highlowmum

May 6, 2019 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

Did you know that last week was Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week? I knew that May is Mental Health Month, and that we at the UCC Mental Health Network are encouraging congregations to recognize Mental Health Sunday.  But one of the blessings for me of social media has been learning about Maternal Mental Health Awareness […]

Filed Under: Postpartum, Stigma Tagged With: #highlowmum, Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health Network, postpartum depression, Stigma, UCC, United Church of Christ

Remind Me Who I Am

November 19, 2018 By Rev. Dr. Ciarán Osborn (he/him)

I am someone who lives with chronic mental illness. Many days I am stable, clear-headed, calm, focused, content. I’m a person who gets a lot done in a day. I live a full and fulfilling life full of ministry, music, friends, family, creative pursuits. But other days, I find myself sinking, weighed down by depression. […]

Filed Under: Depression, Love, Stigma Tagged With: belovedness, depression, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

The Shadow of Death

October 29, 2018 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

I thought I knew what I would write about for today’s post. And then, my 3.5 month old daughter entered into a phase of screaming every time we set her down and refusing to nap. And then, a white supremacist killed two African-American people in Kentucky. And then, a neo-Nazi slaughtered eleven Jews in Pittsburgh. […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health Tagged With: Anxiety, depression, murder, prayer, Psalm 23, terrorism

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