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Category Archives: Serious Brain Disorders
Mosaic Series – In God’s Image – “Created to be Interdependent within the Body of Christ”
Serious Brain Disorders, formerly called Mental Illnesses
Written by the Rev. Norma Mengel
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Mosaic Series – In God’s Image – “What Does God Want?”
Written by Sharon Crousore
OUR DAUGHTER LOST HER MIND. Others lose their sight or hearing or ability to walk. What trauma and challenge that is.
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Don’t Ask My Child To Fly
copyright by Bruce Ritchie 1997
Don’t ask my child to fly,
for he has not wings.
Don’t ask my child to see the
glint on the eagle’s beak,
for his vision has been
diminished.
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Reflection on Psalm 121
Written by Bryan Crousoure
Mental Illness Ministry
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United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries Comments on the Virginia Tech Incident
The following commentary is offered by Rev. Norma S. Mengel, a member of the United Church of Christ Mental Illness Network and the UCC Disabilities Ministries, after the tragic incident at Virginia Tech.
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Bipolar Disorder
The genesis point of our religion is God’s looking at each creature and seeing, first, that it is good. We also, as open, accepting churches, need not start with what is wrong with a person but from the beginning can choose to affirm what is right.
“If more people educated themselves about mental illness, maybe they could understand it is an illness of the brain, not a character defect or something that I, or anyone else who suffers from it, can just stop whenever it is inconvenient,” says Lincolnite Sheri Riley.
Read Papolos’ The Bipolar Child, Granet’s Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? and other nonfiction resources by Miklowitz, Mondimore, and Waltz. Explore the Nebraska chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill at http://www.nami.org.
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