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Bumpiness on the Road of Mental Health – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. Bumpiness on the Road of Mental Health. November 4, 2013. It has been a long time, far too long, since I last posted here. My last post was on July 22nd. And it is now 4th November. At one point I updated this site with new content every two days, and then that gradually became once a week, and then nothing at all. I shall have to decide. But there may be yet more delay in postings here while I do decide. In any case thank you for still rea...
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8 Ways You Can Help When Someone is Mentally Ill – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. 8 Ways You Can Help When Someone is Mentally Ill. October 29, 2012. 1212mentalhealth-RW (Photo credit: Robbie Wroblewski). Perhaps your friend, relative or someone else you know is having an episode of mental illness. Mental illness affects 1 in 4 people in the course of a year. Chances are that you know someone who is, or has been mentally ill. So what do you do when you find out? Find out about mental ill-health. Hello, Emma, I have a nep...
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More – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. This is a miscellaneous section about the blog that probably no one wants to see but me! In October 2012 I was awarded Best Newcomer Blog at the Christian New Media Awards. You can read my post on it. Or visit their site. November 2012 – I have been awarded Best New Blog jointly with The Maniac’s Path. At The World of Mentalists Blog Awards – you can read my post on that. And this is their post on that. I was also awarded this nice thing:.
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Not Feeling Too Well – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. Not Feeling Too Well. July 22, 2013. I meant to post more often after my last post, but things haven’t been too good here. The UK has been going through a heatwave, so I haven’t been able to sleep very much, although it has cooled down a bit now. I’ve started volunteering for the Citizen’s Advice Bureau. Laquo; A Week of Slight Mentalness, Sorry. Bumpiness on the Road of Mental Health. July 22, 2013 at 9:40 am. Hi Emma, perhaps this is the ...
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8 Good Things To Say to a Depressed Person – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. 8 Good Things To Say to a Depressed Person. January 21, 2013. Hug (Photo credit: Julie K in Taiwan). I have seen lots of the sort of lists I’ve made, saying what some of the worst things we can say when someone we know is depressed, but I haven’t seen quite so many about what we can say. I wrote a piece called 8 Ways To Help When Someone is Mentally Ill. Which I’d also point you to, but this is a simple list of things that can help. If you ...
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What Do Chaplains Do? The report – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. What Do Chaplains Do? November 7, 2012. A hospital offers communion to a young man in the hospital. Guadalajara, Mexico. (Photo credit: Wikipedia). This is a review of What Do Chaplains Do? The Role of the Chaplain in Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Patients by Dr Harriet Mowat and Professor John Swinton, report number CSHD/MR001 Edition 2 from Aberdeen University, February 2007 and available online on this site. All this arises from a diffe...
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Why, Lord? – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. June 24, 2013. We should pray for forgiveness; not consult a doctor. We should repent; not take medication. Our suffering is merited and we need to put on the sackcloth and ashes and plead with God to forgive our great sin, and take our illnesses away. It is not just other people who tell us these things I have lost count of the number of times I have lain awake at night thinking that I must. Have done something to deserve this; that I must.
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A Week of Slight Mentalness, Sorry – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. A Week of Slight Mentalness, Sorry. July 7, 2013. Well, it’s been a while. Longer than I intended, in fact, since I last posted. I usually try to post at least once a week, but this has been a strange week! About coming off risperidone. So what have I been doing with myself? And, to be honest, most jobs require you to be able to drive and have your own car and my doctors have said I must not drive. So the chances of me actually being ab...
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The End of the Party – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. The End of the Party. June 22, 2013. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by. Madness, starving hysterical naked,. Dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn. Looking for an angry fix. 8211; Allen Ginsberg. That is when his wife told us that he was always like that, and we just hadn’t encountered it before. Since then that nastiness has recurred time and time again, as his drinking has increased. His alcoholism is the ...
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7 Ways Faith Communities Can Respond to Mental Illness – Believer's Brain
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Seeking God in the midst of Mental Illness. Guide 2 Self Injury. 7 Ways Faith Communities Can Respond to Mental Illness. May 27, 2013. This is in response to Adrian Warnock’s conversation on mental illness (see here. On my blog) and is specifically in response to this question. How do you think that faith communities and society as a whole can better respond to mental illness? There are dark shadows in the lives of quite a few mentally ill people shadows caused by abuse, violence, and so on. Nosy or ...