Category Archives: crazy

The stigma and shame surrounding mental illness takes a toll on family members, making it difficult to find support when someone you love has mental illness. It’s important for family members to break the silence about mental illness because as caregivers we can feel isolated and alone. Time, resources, and energy are often focused onContinue reading “5 Ways to Love Someone With Mental Illness”

This post first appeared on October 6 on Patheos as a guest blog of Reba Riley’s Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome In honor of National Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 5-11), I invited minister and social worker Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund to write this post about some of harmful lies told in Christian communities about mentalContinue reading “5 Lies Christians Tell About Mental Illness”

Nobody is too good for mental illness. Or too rich or too young. Then why was I surprised when this wealthy and good man’s eyes teared up? As he told me about how suicide intruded in on his family’s life, tears began to fall. And because it was too much to bare, he shifted hisContinue reading “When Tears Fall”