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Disability Concerns Canada Winter 2022 Newsletter
The Disability Concerns Canada Winter 2022 Newsletter is here! This issue focuses on mental health.
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March 4, 2022
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Disability Concerns Canada Winter 2022 Newsletter: Life is Messy and Beautiful
Kate Bowler's book, No Cure for Being Human, offered space to share the challenges of life together as a community.
March 3, 2022
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Disability Concerns Canada Winter 2022 Newsletter: On Confusing Depression With Sadness
Michèle Gyselinck shares openly about her life living with mental health issues.
March 2, 2022
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Disability Concerns Canada Winter 2022 Newsletter: Living With Mental Illness
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a sharp rise in the number of persons experiencing mental illness, especially anxiety and depression.
March 2, 2022
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Disability Concerns Canada Winter 2022 Newsletter: Introducing Regional Advocates Elly VanAlten and Linda Rosendal
While everyone understands we are all part of the body of Christ, not everyone knows how to be inclusive. “As regional advocates, we are that missing piece.”
October 31, 2021
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On Confusing Depression With Sadness
Some time ago, I realized that I was going through a depressive episode. When many people hear that, they think I’m sad—not necessarily.
July 29, 2021
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Developing Healthy Dialogues Around Ministry Leaders' Mental Health
Several CRC ministries have come together to create a slide presentation for ministry leaders to begin the conversation on mental health. Check out this valuable tool!
March 17, 2021
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Book Study Guide: Finding Jesus in the Storm (Mental Health Resource)
Disability Concerns has developed a book club resource based on John Swinton's book Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Live of Christians with Mental Health Challenges.
December 2, 2020
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About Mental Illnesses and Moral Judgements
God has allowed people to develop mental illnesses for the same reason some people have heart disease or cerebral palsy; it’s a consequence of original sin, and nothing they did.
November 16, 2020
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Thoughts on Attributing Genuine Spiritual Experiences to Demons
As I read through the book Finding Jesus in the Storm, I come across parts that are emotionally difficult to deal with. They’re difficult because they make me angry.
November 8, 2020
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New Book! Stripped Bare, My Mental Health Journey
The true story of a young woman afflicted with a mental illness, this book details her journey from psychotic episodes and her struggle to both to stay sane and maintain her relationship with God.
October 28, 2020
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My Cousin Élise
Élise was a bright young woman who developed paranoid psychosis at roughly the same age as I did my schizophrenia—around mid-twenties to early thirties. The two illnesses are related. They are both psychotic.
October 13, 2020
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Tonight’s Small Group Conversation: Your Mental Health
Are we making space in our churches for necessary conversations about mental health? This resource, designed with small groups in mind, will help break the silence around mental health.
September 15, 2020
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The Narrative of Suicide
September is suicide prevention month. In order to address this epidemic, we need to share our stories. Here is one such story.
September 10, 2020
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Mental Health Ministries Shares Resources
September is National Suicide Prevention and Recovery Month. Mental Health Ministries has created resources to support our faith communities as we work towards ensuring everyone has proper access to mental health care.
July 13, 2020
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On Hatred and Mental Illness
Since his behavior was not normal, some people assumed that it must have been mental illness.
April 9, 2020
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On Managing Stress During a Pandemic When You Have a Mental Illness
Many people who read my blogs know that I live with schizophrenia, and that on the whole I’m doing pretty well, but last night a number of factors caused me to feel angst about the current situation.
February 24, 2020
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On Psychosomatic Disorders
Many people assume that when we say a disease has a psychosomatic cause, it means the disease is imaginary. Not so.
October 1, 2019
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Mental Health Awareness Week October 6 to 12
For Mental Health Awareness Week (Oct 6-12) we encourage your church to develop greater awareness of the one in five people among us who have mental health issues and to consider ways to minister with them.
August 22, 2019
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A Foolish and Dangerous Assertion
In spite of facts, the president of the United States has been using his bully pulpit in recent days to finger mental illness as a cause of mass shootings. This assertion is foolish and dangerous.
August 6, 2019
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An Unusual Sensitivity
I have this unusual sensitivity to all electronic devices. For example, I can't form a decent sentence if a cell phone is in the pocket of someone I'm near.
June 12, 2019
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Needing God—and My Medication
When Sharon McQueary shared her journey with depression at a women’s conference, many of the women felt permission to share their own experiences with mental health challenges.
May 29, 2019
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Rompiendo Barreras—Primavera 2019
La enfermedad mental y la práctica espiritual: Los autores describen de qué manera la enfermedad mental de un ser querido o la suya propia han formado su fe y practica espiritual en la que se entrecruzan los ritmos del bienestar mental, la vida devocional y el discipulado personal.
May 28, 2019
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Chaos, Confusion, Inadequacy, Hope, Peace
A Day in the Life by Bev Roozeboom gives a glimpse into the chaos and hope of families with children living in the grip of chronic mental health disorders.
May 21, 2019
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When Supreme Court Justices Have Mental Health Struggles
One question that came in challenged the judge’s ability to do his job because of his illnesses. This challenge is based on the assumption that mental illnesses affect an individual’s intelligence and judgment.