depression
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Depression Does Not Always Lie
The Bruised Reed in the Dark, Part 2: When Despair Tells the Truth Poorly Depression is dangerous. Not because it kills the way cancer kills, but because it can turn suffering into self-destruction. It belongs to that terrible class of afflictions in which the sufferer’s own mind begins to argue against his will to live.… Continue reading
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Depression Is Not a Mood
The Bruised Reed in the Dark (Part 1): Walking Gently There are sorrows in life that most people can understand. A death in the family.A marriage under strain.A child in trouble.A job lost.A diagnosis received.A betrayal that still has a name and a face. These sorrows hurt, and some of them alter the whole landscape… Continue reading
