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Value
The person who suffers from mind illness is tremendously valuable, especially if they have insight into their thought processes. We still live in days of suspicion and the side-lining of people who suffer depression. Depression is seen as weakness and the people who suffer from it are regarded as less than so-called “normal” people. This…
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Endless circles
The mind that is overloaded and tired tries to right itself though thinking. The mind goes around in endless circles to try to decipher the feelings involved in the depression or mania. It is a way to try to square up the thoughts and feelings that are leading the sufferer down into the depression or…
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Sleeplessness
There is a lot of guilt built in around the pronouncements about sleep. We are told that everyone should have eight hours uninterrupted sleep every night. We identify deep sleep, with REM sleep (rapid eye movement sleep) somnambulistic sleep and dozing. We are suppose to sleep eight hours or we are not going to live…
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Loneliness
Loneliness is a state of mind brought on by circumstances that we might find ourselves in. God knows all about it and is in complete control. He is always on the throne. Loneliness is thinking that no one cares, even though they obviously do! Gods sends the right people at the right time. Loneliness is…
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The Christian sufferer
It is a very different experience to suffer mind illness when we belong to the family of God. To experience deep depression and other disturbances in the mind is very frightening to the sufferer and to have no loving, powerful God in charge is very debilitating and causes much sorrow. Life is so uncertain and…
Of the Psyche 