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When Spring Comes Late: Finding Your Way Through Depression

When Spring Comes Late: Finding Your Way Through Depression

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Great Resource -- A Biblical, Sensitive View
Review: I am a Christian who went through a severe bout of clinical depression five years ago. The Christian community is in desperate need of those who are willing to share their stories and help remove the stigma of this illness. It is time to lift the cover and allow Christians to seek treatment without shame and embarrassment.

Pam Rosewell Moore does an excellent job of handling the subject in a very sensitive and Biblical manner. Yes, it is possible that depression is the result of sin in your life and that avenue must be explored as the Holy Spirit will work to convict us of sin and call us to repentance. However, clinical depression is an illness, not caused by a lack of faith or sin, that requires medical intervention and treatment.

Moore also very sensitively addresses the issues of medication and counseling -- two areas that Christians seem to have a problem accepting. How I wish this book had been available to me as I suffered, and I can unequivocally recommend it. It is a great resource to the depressed and to the families and friends of the depressed.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The author is not a doctor but writes from experience
Review: I found this book to be helpful because Ms. Moore herself has experienced the pain and frustration of depression. All the other books I've read on depression were written by doctors who were presenting it from a medical or psychological sense. She avoids touching on the medical aspects (the word "serotonin" appears once) and focuses primarily on the changes she made in her life to help her recover from depression. She also helps the reader understand the importance of supporting and helping a depressed loved one, and she provides instruction on how to effectively do that. My husband is reading this book now to try to understand how I feel and what I'm going through, and he says he's finally "getting it." The one thing that really clicked with me in the book was when she talked about how hard it was to read her Bible and learn new things while she was depressed. So, she said she focused on Biblical truths and basics -- in other words, she clung to what she knew to be true. That just makes so much sense, and I'm so glad she brought that idea forth.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The first steps of healing for the depressed Christian.
Review: This book changed my life. I was one of those people who thought depression was the result of a faultering reltaionship with God. If someone was in a right relationship with God, trusting Him and relying on Him in all circumbstances, how could he or she be overcome by such a worldly "fault" as depression? I didn't believe it could be an illness, it had to be the person's fault. This was my mentality until I went through a seveare depression myself. I searched my life wondering where I went wrong, fighting each day the fact that I was clinically depressed.

If you are struggling with the fact that you are a christian who struggles with something as helpless and debilitating as depression I fully recommend this book. Moore speaks with sincerity and through experience that will encourage you to accept what is going on and know what steps to take next. Know that Moore does not speak from the perspective of a medical professional, but instead through experience, and advice and comments from many others who have seen or experienced depression.

I also highly recommend this book to any Christian who thinks that depression is the person's fault, something they need to work out of, or due to a fault in his or her relationship with the Lord. I am so thankful someone has enough heart to share the truth of depression with those of us who don't understand. This book will give you a more realistic perpective on what depression is, how it is dealt with and how to help hurting Christians around you.

I recommend this book to anyone who is experiencing depression in themselves, or in loved ones.


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