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Mental Health

The Opposite of Denial

May 7, 2018 By Karl Shallowhorn

For by grace you have been saved through faith.And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.Ephesians 2:8 When I think back on the course of my life and the fact that I’ve been living with a co-occurring condition of bipolar disorder and addiction for more than 37 years I am […]

Filed Under: Bipolar Disorder, Faith, Mental Health, Recovery Tagged With: airports, Bipolar, episodic psychosis, Grace, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

John

April 30, 2018 By Rev. Lisa LeSueur

I knew something wasn’t quite right with John when I saw him that morning. He left the files on my desk without saying a word, without making eye contact. He had that distant, faraway look he got when he stopped taking his medication. Usually he would stay a minute and chat, but on this day […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Stigma Tagged With: Bipolar, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

Spirit and Mental Illness

April 16, 2018 By Craig Rennebohm

After 53 years of living with depression and a ministry increasingly focused on the intersection of religious life and mental illness, I share these thoughts about our biological, psychological, social and spiritual wholeness. Our bodies and brains serve not only a myriad of worldly functions, but are a “sensorium for the Spirit.” Literally every occasion […]

Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: depression, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ, wholeness

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