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written by Alan Johnson �...Then your light shall break forth like the dawn; and your healing shall spring up quickly...� Isaiah 58:8 If there is no cure, and a person has to manage a mental disorder, what can I do as a dad? From where shall the light come? And what does healing look like? Obviously the impact from living with a serious mental illness is enormous in a person's life.

written by Karl Shallowhorn "Perhaps this is the moment for which you've been created." Esther 4:14 �Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.� Soren Kierkergaard If only I had known these two things when I was in the depths of my despair in my late adolescence and early adulthood. It was during this period that I suffered (and I mean really suffered) from

Written by Lisa LeSueur My soul wept when I walked into the cold sterile hospital room where my then partner sat slumped, rocking herself on a hard wooden rectangular box with no blankets or pillow. She looked up at me with anger in her eyes and I instantly knew what was coming�..this was my fault. The sobbing that she had been doing continually for the past two days had stopped and what

John 2:13-22 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were

Part 2 (part 1 here) written by by Grant F. Sontag I began a suicide note which I worked on constantly until I had what I would call a nervous breakdown (now called a �major depressive episode.�). I began to shake and a thin, plaintiff wail began to well up inside me. With my cousin Jane rubbing my back to soothe me, I called my psychiatrist at University Hospitals. Dr. Ito listened

Written by Kirk Moore �How about we stop blaming the victims?� Emma Gonzalez, survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Mental Illness affects more than 70 million people in the United States. But of all the violent acts committed in this country, only 4 to 5% are attributable to people with mental illness. People with serious mental health problems are 12 times

written by Grant F. Sontag Part 1 (part 2 here) In 1996, while living and working in Cleveland, Ohio, I was diagnosed with a carotid body tumor - a rare, usually benign growth almost always occurring in men over forty. I was forty one at the time. The otolaryngologist, Dr. Harvey, explained that the risks of cutting along the artery wall were �stroke,