Yes, I know this is only the second such book I've tried -- but I am not full of optimism.

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I am thus far underwhelmed by (and sometimes outright fail-boggled by) Barbara Cawthorne Crafton's book Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet.  I don't even know what I want a Christian book on mental illness to do or say or include (so I don't know how I would even begin writing one myself -- even leaving aside the issue that, as someone who

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my two cents

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For me faith is action. Faith is doing "the next right thing" not because you know or trust how things are going to turn out, but because you believe it's the right thing to do and if you do the right thing then things will turn out the way they are susposed to and there will be things to be grateful for along the way.

I think dealing with mental ilness is a lot like that. Depression can say loud and clear that things are not going to turn out okay no matter what I do, that there is no point, that I am walking through the darkness and there is no dawn.

Faith can provided me a counter balance to that allowing the courage to do what I need to do to take care of myself, to act in direct opposition to everything I think my head and my heart are telling me. My head and my heart tells me that shuffling my feet forward through the night is pointless, faith tells me that if I keep moving the sunrise will come. And now that I have a little experience with sunrises, it's gotten a little easier to believe in them.

Those are my two cents anyway, wouldn't make much of a book.