The Anxious Generation: Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt attributes the epidemic of mental illness in teenagers to the rewiring of childhood. (more…)
Bob JonesJanuary 10, 2025
16 Insights About Depression And Loss
When Matthew Warren died by suicide, Easter 2013, his parents struggled to cope with the loss. He was only 27 years old. (more…)
Bob JonesJuly 14, 2024
Yesterday: Paul McCartney’s Music
At the age of 14, Paul McCartney's mum died suddenly from breast cancer. Shortly afterwards, he wrote his first song. 58 years ago this June he wrote his most popular composition. (more…)
Bob JonesJune 10, 2023
Your Story Isn’t Over Yet
Rightly so, my mum took me to a psychologist. It was there, with my aunt, step-dad and mum in the room that the truth came out - my Dad had committed suicide. (more…)
Bob JonesJuly 19, 2022
Be A Good Samaritan of Mental Health
Brock Harrison was going about his life as a new dad and speechwriter for the leader of a political party when it hit him. It presented innocuously enough as panic attacks. Sitting down at his computer brought sudden and paralyzing physiological discomfort. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 11, 2022
SHEILA WALSH: Loved Back To Life
One day, she was at the pinnacle of her career, a co-host of a national Christian TV program and the next day she was checking into a psychiatric hospital, under a suicide watch. (more…)
Bob JonesFebruary 8, 2022
In The Winter Of Your Soul
One of the biggest mental health issues I see on a regular basis isn’t depression or anxiety. According to Dr Merry Lin, "Its people who are languishing. Languishing is not the presence of mental illness; it’s the absence of mental and emotional vitality." It’s the "winter of your soul." (more…)
Bob JonesDecember 14, 2020
SISTERHOOD OF THE SEMI-COLON
Today I went to a tattoo artist, and for $60 I let a man with a giant Jesus-tattoo on his head ink a semi-colon onto my wrist where it will stay until the day I die. Heather Parrie (more…)
Bob JonesJuly 4, 2020
MENTAL HEALTH AND THE CHURCH
Think about how we respond to mental illness in the church. A woman diagnosed with cancer experiences sympathy, hugs, prayers and casseroles. A woman diagnosed with a mental illness experiences silence, suspicion, blame, and far too often, shame. That’s called “stigma.” There is no stigma with cancer, heart disease or diabetes. How did we get to the place where those who are struggling with their mental health feel like they must hide in shame? (more…)
Bob JonesMay 8, 2020
6 Stages of Grief: Rick And Kay Warren
Rick and Kay Warren were devastated when their 27-year old son Matthew committed suicide in April 2013. Their grief was unimaginable. Matthew had suffered from depression all of his life. In September 2013 the Warrens gave their first public interview with CNN. Piers Morgan called it “one of the most moving interviews I conducted in my life.” (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 1, 2020