A Path Through the Sea: One Woman's Journey from Depression to Wholeness

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993 - 244 pages
In this frank, instructive, and heartening personal story, Lillian Grissen tells about the severe depression that she herself experienced. Her pain - mental, emotional, and physical pain - was excruciating, and at first she felt hopelessly trapped in it. But with the help of a gifted Christian psychiatrist, Grissen began to stop blaming herself and to confront the core of her problem - her relationship as a child with her mother. Over a period of five long years - also with her husband's support, her pastor's compassionate counsel, and the right combination of therapy and medication, and God's gracious strength - Grissen gradually climbed out of the pit of her depression. "A profound yet simple book about a complex condition: clinical depression. Only one who has experienced the pain of the darkness of depression and the joy of the light of recovery could have had the courage to trace the arduous journey." - Katie Funk Wiebe, author of Bless Me Too, My Father
 

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Contents

A Rude Awakening
1
Case No 5352
5
Hopes Thief
9
My Own Fault
11
Hitting Bottom
16
Womans Role?
20
Mercy
26
The Kings Business
31
The Core of the Matter
108
Beginning
121
Home
129
Just for Credit
136
Again
143
How Long?
149
Respite
156
Truth and Its Perception
160

I Cant
38
The Girl with the Curl
45
Lost Weekend
54
Pa
58
A Flicker of Courage
64
Ma
69
Sunday and Monday
77
Fear
87
Like Mother Like Daughter
94
Easy Way Out
100
Family Finally
168
Tugging at Ties
176
Yes There Is Life after Depression
185
Afterword
193
Understanding Depression
195
A Husband Looks at Depression
207
How a Parents Depression Can Affect Children
213
Books That Have Helped Me in My Continuing Journey
217
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About the author (1993)

Lillian V. Grissen is a former teacher, a writer, and a frequent speaker. For several years she served as associate editor of THE BANNER, and recently she edited For Such a Time as This: Twenty-Six Women of Vision and Faith Tell Their Stories.

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