Tag: illness
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Can we talk about suicide and mental illness now?
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How many more celebrities have to die tragically, before we can talk about these hard topics of life and death? Death is one of those topics that most people don’t want to talk about; there are many reasons for that. But death is a certainty; we are all human and mortal. Closely related to that,…
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Will churches help to erase shame about mental illnesses?
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Excerpt from “Can Churches Separate Mental Illness and Shame? Rick Warren confronts one more “last taboo.”” – cover story in Christianity Today by Christine A. Scheller (3/31/14):: “In some Asian populations, we know there are not even words for therapy or suicide,” said Kristee Haggins, senior associate at the California Institute for Mental Health and…