Discussion of Mental Illness: a Link

If you can spare half an hour or so, and are interested in understanding better the challenges faced by our family as we struggle with bipolar disorder and depression, please read this transcript of a televised discussion by some experts in the field of mental illness. There are some good insights to be gained.



One of the discussants composed the music for this hymn. It says so much about how I feel, and how I am sustained through difficulties. I hope it blesses you, as well.

Where Can I Turn for Peace?

Where can I turn for peace?
Where is my solace
When other sources cease to make me whole?
Where with a wounded heart, anger, or malice,
I draw myself apart,
Searching my soul?

Where, when my aching grows,
Where, when I languish,
Where, in my need to know, where can I run?
Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish?
Who, who can understand?
He, only One.

He answers privately,
Reaches my reaching
In my Gethsemane,
Savior and Friend.
Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching.
Constant he is and kind,
Love without end.

(Hymn number 129,
Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
1985.)



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