Katherine Greene-McCreight is assistant priest at St. John's Episcopal and professor at Albertus Magnus College—both in New Haven, Connecticut. Her struggle with depression began when she was 12 and has continued. During that time, she has seen several doctors and counselors and has been hospitalized five times. From the perspective of a minister and a patient, she has valuable advice for ministry ...
Below are some symptoms of clinical depression. Anyone who answers "true" to a majority of the following statements is almost certainly depressed and should seek professional assistance before the depression worsens.
1. I feel like crying more often now than I did a year ago.
2. I feel blue and sad.
3. I feel hopeless and helpless a good part of the time.
ARTICLE When a Loved One Dies Healing is often slow, sporadic, and incomplete, but with God’s help, it is possible. Richard L. Mabry
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Accepting help from others—even realizing that help is needed— is difficult for those in the midst of grief. To begin with, they believe no one can know the depth of their sorrow, the wrenching sense of loss they feel, the problems that continue to crop up day by day. They feel they can take as their theme song "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." What they fail to consider is the second ...
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