For people with mental health challenges, living in the path of a major hurricane can create an equally devastating hurricane within. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder already elevate ones vulnerability in times of stress. Then add an oncoming category five or four hurricane to the mix and imagine tripling the feelings ofContinue reading “The Hurricane Within “
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For the Love of Brains
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and May 4 is declared by the White House as National Mental Health Awareness Day. Let’s just come out and say it: brains. I have a seven year old son and so it’s hard for me to say this word without hearing the zombie character from the 2012 filmContinue reading “For the Love of Brains”
Mental Illness She Spoke
Unknown to me are the people in the audience who show up to a talk I’m giving about mental illness. I do not know 99 percent of the people for whom I share my story. I look out into the tent or the church or the room or the web camera and I have neverContinue reading “Mental Illness She Spoke”
Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund 