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Sorting Out What is Real
It’s a terribly cold, gray day here in Alaska. Very typical for the end of November. Just as typical is that I have had a heaviness descend on me, just like when the fat kid sits on the little kid...
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Melancholy Beckons Me
Objectively speaking, my life is pretty good, for the most part. I have a good job, been married 25 years, have a wonderful creative son, a terrific church home and family, blood family that I love, a...
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A Mighty Fortress, Understood
Martin’s Depression The hymn A Mighty Fortress Is Our God gloriously celebrates God’s power. It was penned by the great 16th-century reformer Martin Luther, who believed God’s power could help...
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When Instability Attacks!
I feel good, too good— and it concerns me. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve been down this road before. I guess this is my big issue with Bipolar Disorder (BP); its unpredictability, the way...
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The Rigidity of Evil
I have a heart–but it is broken and crushed. Today I realized that I was sick and very tired of myself. It’s really not disgust, or even loathing. It’s more like a weariness, an exhaustion. I’ve never...
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Fine, I’ll Do It Broken
Fine, I’ll Do It Broken. A great link to a special teaching by Cheryl Meakins. This will bless you. ybic, Bryan Related articles The Stickiness of Shame, Psalm 34:5 (psalmslife.com) Were not broken...
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Dancing With Bruises
Bruises seem to be part of life’s package to us. (I think that when the order was set for me, I had a quota of 843 bruises to fulfill.) Some will be serious, others minor. But each are noted, and some...
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Schizophrenia, An Opportunity to Love
Do you know someone who seems like he or she has “lost touch” with reality? Does this person talk about “hearing voices” no one else can? Does he or she see or feel things no one else can? Does this...
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When Instability Attacks!
I feel good, too good— and it concerns me. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve been down this road before. I guess this is my big issue with Bipolar Disorder (BP); its unpredictability, the way...
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Sorting Out What is Real
It’s a windy cold, gray day here in Alaska. Very typical for Autumn up here in “the Last Frontier.” Just as typical is that I have had a heaviness descend on me, just like when the fat kid sits on...
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Fun With Psychiatric Drugs
A fun look at the meds we take, and their place in our lives. Nothing but fun here, folks! Filed under: addiction, cartoons, danger, depression, despair, despondancy, humor, internet, laughter,...
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Melancholy Beckons Me
Objectively speaking, my life is pretty good, for the most part. I have a good job, been married 25 years, have a wonderful creative son, a terrific church home and family, blood family that I love, a...
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Whim-Whams
“In our family “whim-wham” is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or schizoaffective. Back in the 1970s and ’80s – when they were...
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Should I Take Medication?
by John Piper What’s Your Take on Christians Using Antidepressants? In the end I’m going to say that there are times when I think it is appropriate, but I want to go there cautiously and slowly, with...
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Sunning Ourselves in the Smiles of God
A boy stood on a windy hillside, flying a kite. He continued to release the string of the kite and it went higher and higher until it was completely out of sight. One of his friends walked up and asked...
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Drowning in Despair
“For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.” 2 Corinthians 1:8...
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The Melancholy of Edvard Munch
December 2, 1863 – January 23, 1944, he was a Norwegian painter. He is regarded as a Symbolist and a forerunner of expressionism. He focused on themes of fear, anxiety, melancholy, and death. He did...
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Hoping for Something More than Depression
(This article is part of the book: “HOPE: God’s Shelter in the Storm’s of Life.” ) Is There Any Hope for Depression? Yes, absolutely! There is hope for depression. Here is a simple, Biblical plan from...
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When Despair Empties You
“It is through much tribulation that we enter the kingdom of Heaven.” The Apostle Paul As a broken believer this happens. I breakdown, my faith is questioned, and I feel all alone. Issues like a...
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The Part of My Depression That Terrifies Me
“Must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you All through my life? –sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing–oh, worst of things!–the same head?– And, when I feed myself, feeding you, too?” Edna St. Vincent...
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