United Church of Christ Mental Health Network

Working to reduce stigma & promote the inclusion of people with mental health challenges and neurodiversity.

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Signals of Distress,
Signs of Hope

August 6, 2018 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

In 2017, 31.5% of high school students had experienced periods of persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness (i e , almost every day for two weeks or more in a row so that the student stopped doing some usual activities) in the past year.  The percentage of students who experienced persistent feelings of sadness or […]

Filed Under: Community, Mental Health, Support Tagged With: Addiction, canoeing, depression, Mental Health Network, recovery, trauma, UCC, United Church of Christ

The Worst Thing and
the Best Thing

June 11, 2018 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

This is my first post on our United Church of Christ Mental Health Network blog.  I am honored to be part of the group writing for this blog.  I believe that my own experience with mental illness and recovery– my diagnosis is major depression and anxiety disorder – will allow me to make a contribution […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Depression, Recovery Tagged With: Anxiety, depression, Mental Health First Aid, Stigma, UCC, United Church of Christ

Spirit and Mental Illness

April 16, 2018 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

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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