by Chronic Joy® | Mar 28, 2019 | Caregivers, Depression, Mental Illness, Terry Powell
What a husband or wife does or says in relation to a depressed spouse can either exacerbate the symptoms or help relieve them. Dolly, my bride of over 46 years, doesn’t understand depression experientially. She’s optimistic, outgoing. Her emotions...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 20, 2019 | Chronic illness
Each home has its unbelievers and its believers; and thereby a good war is sent to break a bad peace. St Jerome I was born with a minor defect that caused unavoidable and almost constant urinary tract infections. It took many years and doctors for us to discover...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 15, 2019 | Cindee Snider Re, Newsletter, PenToPaper
The ministry of letter writing can be vital and life-giving to those who are hurting, grieving, recovering, homebound, lonely, ill, depressed, or isolated. This ministry embraces intentionality – a purposeful slowing down – as we write, sharing news,...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 14, 2019 | Parenting
Motherhood, special needs, and the beauty of everyday messes. These diagnoses feel so heavy. At times, I have found some words. I have been able to open up about little things that happen, to my friends and my husband. It feels good to admit it. This is real. He is...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 6, 2019 | Anxiety, Depression, Heather MacLaren Johnson, Mental Illness
Are you a Christian? Do you, or does someone you know, suffer with depression? Or anxiety? Or bipolar? You know, the real illnesses. Not the words batted around daily making folks like me feel like we have no clue about what it actually means to deal these illnesses...
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