Many people with mental illnesses don’t exactly know how to relate to others or whom to trust, but everyone needs friends and people who care for them. Such a friendship can be like any other and includes sharing of personal information by both parties and,
Humankind has struggled with the matter of mental disorders — or mental illness — as long as people can remember. In Jesus' day -- and today -- people feared what they didn't understand. What can churches do to reach out?
At 54, Sherman Horton learned his wife was dying a slow death that would rob her of her mind first -- a form of Alzheimer's. As Ellen began to forget the couple's years together and became increasingly afraid of her husband, now a stranger, Horton
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Because of a fear, mistrust of behavioral sciences, a fuzzy understanding of brain function and a poor theology of sin many Christians, chuches and ministers