In this video and audio, Pastor Tom Nelson, Senior Pastor of Denton Bible Church in Texas, talks about his experience with clinical depression.
He shares how he started having physical problems the doctors couldn’t find a cause for. Those were followed by him falling into the ‘black hole’ of clinical depression.
His wife told him to see a psychiatrist and counselor. Eventually he agreed.
He found out what happened to him often happens to people who push themselves to the limit for years. Eventually their body and mind can’t take it anymore and they have a breakdown like this. [This is not the only reason people become clinically depressed; clinical depression has a variety of causes]
Tom was prescribed Lexapro for a period of months and Ativan as needed. He also met with a counselor who had experienced clinical depression. When he was well enough to return to work, he cut back his schedule to prevent it happening again.
After he went through clinical depression he found out two of his elders, four staff members and his secretary had also been through it. He said, no-one talks about it [in the church]. It’s like being gay. Read the rest of this entry »
04-08-2008 |
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