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...
by Chronic Joy® | Sep 25, 2018 | Anxiety, Depression, Heather MacLaren Johnson, Mental Illness
Early this summer, I forgot to take my antidepressants for three days in a row. Normally, a two-day memory lapse would throw me into the pit of deep darkness. This time was different. I thought maybe I had reached a point where God had answered my prayers—20 years of...
by Chronic Joy® | Sep 10, 2018 | Anxiety, Caregivers, Chronic illness, Depression, Leaders, Mental Illness, Parenting, Terry Powell
Depression that leads to suicide isn’t just the plight of the financially-strapped, unemployed provider of a household, or the teen who’s tormented by bullies, or the retiree who’s weary of declining energy and escalating physical pain. Just ask the friends of Kate...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 26, 2018 | Anxiety, Depression, Mental Illness, Parenting
By the time you read this, I’ll be feeling much better. Therapy will have commenced, medications will have been adjusted, and clinging to the One who clings to the brokenhearted will have kept me affixed to a drip line of peace. I can say this with some confidence,...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 15, 2018 | Anxiety, Caregivers, Chronic illness, Depression, Heather MacLaren Johnson, Mental Illness, Parenting, Stories of Hope
She stood on the threshold wearing a red dress, her chopped hair topped with a big chiffon bow customary for little Russian girls. Holding the hand of the orphanage director, she looked across the room where I sat on a red couch in front of a wall of windows covered...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 7, 2018 | Anxiety, Caregivers, Chronic illness, Parenting
This is part one in a two-part series entitled: Field Notes of Pain “Darling, you feel heavy because you are too full of truth. Open your mouth more. Let the truth exist somewhere other than inside your body.” Della Hicks-Wilson …..I feel “ick” today. Heavy. Maybe a...
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