Most people with severe mental illness are not permanently incapacitated, infantile, helpless persons whom we need to protect.

I desperately wanted to get better, mostly for my family’s sake, and was willing to go to any length to reclaim my life. I longed to be the husband and father they deserved.

Several years ago, I endured one setback after another: medication problems, relationship issues, and personal projects that failed to materialize.

What should I say to a friend who believes the Bible teaches that it’s wrong to make plans? She quotes Jesus’ words as proof that Christians ought not to set goals or make plans,

Where do you go for help, hope, and meaning when painful struggles erode your confidence, shake your faith, and taint your happy times?

If God is all-good and all-loving and all-powerful, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? Why do good Christians lose their jobs or experience disastrous financial reversals?

You pucker and squintAt the slightest hintOf a lemon’s bitter taste.So why not throw it in the waste?Life deals its harsh lemons as well,

In every marriage, both the husband and wife bring their own problems into their new relationship: life’s past wounds, unmet expectations, misplaced priorities, and countless other issues.

Sometimes marriages fail suddenly due to an unexpected physical or mental illness, an act of unfaithfulness, or some other dramatic event. But most marriages die a slow death.

While there are countless things you can do to repair your marriage, here are the ones that have worked for my wife and I and people we know. You don’t need to use them all,

While divorce statistics vary somewhat from study to study and year to year, their numbers aren’t too far apart. In the US and Canada, at least 40 percent of all marriages fail.

I realized pretty quickly that I’d have to take personal responsibility for healing our marriage. Although I have messed up plenty of times, I’ve worked really hard to heal and rebuild our relationship.

How did I cope with the negative effects of Jim’s bipolar disorder? Well, Jim frequently says that education is over half the battle in dealing with bipolar disorder or other brain illnesses.

Restoring a marriage that has been injured by mental illness starts with a deliberate choice to begin again and again and again. As a couple works at rebuilding their strained marital relationship,

Healing and rebuilding your marriage may seem like an impossible task. Your energy and optimism are probably depleted, if not demolished. Your emotions may be frayed to the breaking point.

Every religious leader can reach out to help the mentally ill persons and their families in his or her congregation/temple and community.

Many people diagnosed with a mental illness come from well-adjusted “normal” families—I did not. My mental-­emotional meltdown occurred in my 40s, but its seeds were planted early.