a look at sorrow from the cheap seats

Depression is personal.
We (myself included) talk about “depression” like it’s one singular obtuse thing.  It isn’t.  It could mean something minor or major* or clinical*.  It is an array of many particular feelings to particular people with particular circumstances. 
I am trying to refer to it in more terms than just “depression.” Something more specific.  For [...]

helping a friend who is sorrowing without cause

Sometimes I think depression in Christian women doesn’t exist, until I start to talk about my own experience with it, then, it seems, women come out of the woodwork, finally freed to tell their story.  
Every single depressed person has a different story, different circumstances, different reasons.  But we all share an acquaintance with sorrow [...]

prozac for the glory of God

Lately, I was involved in a discussion about whether or not taking anti-depressants is biblical.
Should Christians suffering from major depression or other illness (mental or otherwise) get medical treatment or should they go to the elders of the church to lay hands on them and pray for them?  This was the basis for the conversation [...]