Catholic hope for those with depression and other anxiety disorders.
Friday, August 15, 2008
discrimination
It was until I was diagnosed that I started understanding the pain of discrimination. References and jokes about being "crazy," "being medicated," specially in t.v. would hurt... badly.
Besides working for an end to discrimination, lets not allow this to embitter our hearts. Let us like the Saints before us, FORGIVE.
I am no therapist or spiritual director. I am just sharing what has been helpful in my own walk. Take and leave whatever you want.
Also, when talking about a Saint's experience with anxiety, intrusive thoughts, panick attacks or depression it is definitly not my intention to undermine the mystical experiences of the Saints. Whether their experiences were signs of mental illnesses or of a spiritual attack we might never know. Yet whatever they were the Saints lived through those experiences with unwavering Faith, Hope and Love. Their experiences are similar to that of people struggling with mental illnesses yet not the same. Still I believe we can live through them with the same Heroic Virtue.
3 comments:
Discrimination is a cause of so much of the shame associated with the struggles of mental illness.
I love the picture you used for this post. Do you know anything about it?
It is a work by Macha Chmakoff. You can google her (his?) name and find a bunch of her (his?) art.
Thanks for the comment!
Thanks. Very interesting work!
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