Posts on Mental Illness - There is Hope in this Hub

This week is Mental Awareness Week and it has inspired me to do one post that serves as a sort of "hub" of links to all the articles and web sites that I have found helpful in my personal battle with Mental Illness and its stigma.

Please share these articles and information with people who you think could use them.

People need to talk about this issue and learn more about it - I hope this post will help you on your way to that.

Mental Illness Awareness Week

The official site

A Beautiful Mind

My personal testimony of struggling with clinical depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as a Human Being and as a Christian.  The Church can be a hard place to deal with this..

When I Understood Grace...or at least began to

The second, more spiritual side, of my testimony...

Some Practical Help When In Depression or Despair

Fundamental things I've learned the hard way...

Mental Illness and the Bible

Jesus understood mental illness

LANDSBERG: HIS DEPRESSION AND HIS FRIEND, WADE BELAK

Dealing with mental illness in the machismo area of sports and athletics.... what it took to wake us sports fans up.

Those North American Kids

Why North American kids may not have it quite as easy as we think they do...

OCD - Managing Compulsions and Obsessions

A great scientific article adapted from J.M. Schwartz "Brain Lock" - simple, effective tools to battle mental illness.

Secrets you're afraid of...

Talk... Tenth Avenue North introduces one of their powerful songs with an amazing and probably familiar type of story...

War of the Minds - Song by Flame

Probably the best ( if not only) song on the issues of  (Mental Illness)