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depression, meds
Depression & meds: A reflection via Peacebang and Chalice Chick
11.27.07 | Permalink | 11 Comments(Peacebang’s post here. Chalice Chick’s response here.) Here’s what I hear, out and about. I hear some folks saying that going on meds is a great experience, some folks bitching about feeling dulled and deadened by their meds, and other folks asking desperately why they can’t find the right meds. More often than not, meds […]
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depression
Depressed no more
02.22.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Depressed no moreHow’s Real Live Preacher doing after a year on meds? “Just fine. Good. Mostly good. I think good.”
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burnout, depression, ministers, ministry
Death by ministry
05.31.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSome stats on ministers (emphasis mine): Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their churches. Fifty percent of pastors' marriages will end in divorce. Eighty percent of pastors and eighty-four percent of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors. Fifty percent […]
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depression
The first thing that goes is people
05.07.06 | Permalink | 13 CommentsSome new friends have been getting on to me lately about being a closed book. So here it goes. I’ve mentioned here before that I have depression. I have had it for years now. Depression doesn’t have the stigma it had when I was first diagnosed. People understand now that it’s a disease but not […]
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burnout, calling, depression, grief, loss, ministry
Killing a fourteen-year-old
03.28.06 | Permalink | 11 CommentsA little over seven months ago I left my steady gig as a communications/program director for a small university research center. This week I expect to sign my first website design contract and send out my second bid. Burnout is the easiest explanation for the quit, but there is a long story behind that explanation. […]
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children, compassion, depression, joy, kindness, moral-courage, narcissism, parenting
What’s wrong with these parents today?
02.12.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on What’s wrong with these parents today?Harry asks what character traits parents would most wish for their children to have. In an old survey, the top answers were honesty (overwhelmingly), then obedience and good judgment. Harry, in counterpoint, chooses kindness. I’m surprised how often “academically successful” (to summarize several replies) came up in comments to Harry’s points. Disappointed, really. Parents whose […]
