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Link – Why Pastors Are Committing Suicide
Pastors aren’t immune to the rising suicide rates. More than half of pastors have counseled people who were later diagnosed with a mental illness (59 percent), and about a quarter say they’ve experienced some type of mental illness themselves (23 percent). According to LifeWay, 12 percent have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. Chuck Hannaford, a…
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Link – We Cannot Ignore Wealth And Class When We Talk About Mental Illness
I think Erin makes some important points in this post. I encourage you to go read the whole thing and take a minute to think about the issue of class and poverty as it relates to mental health. Not because middle and upper class people don’t have serious mental health issues. They do, mental health…
Link – How to Find Accurate, Evidence-Based Information on Mood Disorders
This may be worth checking out if you are also struggling with seeing so much misinformation on the interwebz about mood disorders. There’s plenty of it out there, and even those of us who try to vet much of what we share can sometimes make mistakes. Personally I try to avoid a lot of the…
Sharing – You’re Probably Not As Useless As You Think
This article has a lot to say about supporting someone who is dealing with a serious illness, and not being able to “fix” things for them, but this last section really hit home for me in so many situations: Choosing inaction is an action. And it can be hard and brave because inaction will not…
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