It sounds so unchristian of me, a Christian minister, but one time I actually called the cops on a man because he came to church…a man who came to church during a psychotic episode. And it broke my heart to make the call. This man first came a week earlier to talk with me inContinue reading “The Man Who Wanted To Pray”
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The Devil is in the Diagnosis
The nurse asked me to bring a Bible to the psychiatric ward. It was the summer of my seminary training as a hospital chaplain in Honolulu at Queens Medical Center. I was the on-call chaplain that night. Through a long maze of dimly lit and deserted hospital corridors, I reached what seemed to be aContinue reading “The Devil is in the Diagnosis”
Just Try Harder Lecture
What you don’t expect a child psychiatrist to say to your son: “What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you work as hard as your sister? Why are you so lazy? You just need to try harder.” “Trying harder” is harder than you think when you suffer from a mental health disease. There is stuff goingContinue reading “Just Try Harder Lecture”
Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund 