Evangelicals & Nervous Breakdowns

[A_PoMo]

1. I had a nervous breakdown while in Bible college. I was working full-time, newly married, going to school full-time, leading a time intensive project, and had all sorts of inner turmoil going on at the same time. I finally lost it in my senior year. For a time there I'm not sure how I made it through and would literally forget to go to class and things like that. At the time I didn't know what it was, figured I was just tired and somehow I slogged through it and graduated. It wasn't until recently that I've understood the depth of my struggle with depression over the years and have learned to cope with it better now than I did before.

2. I thought this guy's admonition to not seek out the help of evangelicals to be a little over the top. Evangelicals are the ones that offer MFT programs at their seminaries and it's evangelicals that write all the emo books that we buy at the Christian bookstores. Sounds like he was running with an uninformed crowd. In my limited experience I have found that OP's and Apostolics are generally resistant to seeking out counsel and psychological help. Not always for sure, I go to school with an Apostolic girl who is in the MFT program there, but generally the OP's I've been around kind of look down at psychological/emotional issues and their remedies are too often to spiritualize the problems instead of seeking medical help. I think a combination of both, doctors and prayer, are the best approach.