Mental health
When I felt depressed during lockdown
Cut off from friends and family during the pandemic, this teen found herself slipping into constant unhappiness with no clear way out. But was her happiness really at the mercy of her circumstances...
When you’re at your breaking point
It’s an all-too-familiar feeling for many teenagers right now—the darkness of burnout, anxiety, hopelessness. But there is help. This author shares specifics about the prayer that lifted her, and c...
A permanent healing of panic attacks
Someone asked me if Christian Science can help with mental health issues. I was able to answer from my own experience that it can.
What can I do when everything’s falling apart?
These difficult experiences taught me to trust God’s constant help at every moment and to acknowledge each evidence of it.
Chronic depression healed
Have you ever wondered why you exist, whether you have a purpose, or if you’re just an accident of biology, carried along on the winds of chance? I have. One summer day when I was about seven years...
Feeling embattled? Time for a higher view.
The day is just getting started, and already we feel as if we’re doing battle. On one side, there’s the normal, calm life we all want to live, and on the other the disturbance and negative sense of...
The oneness of Mind and our mental health
There is just one Mind, and that Mind is God. This was an arresting idea I learned early in my study of Christian Science. One divine and eternal Mind. One source of intelligence that is reliable,...
Our divine right to mental peace
Judging by how many resources today are devoted to mental health, it seems many people struggle with feelings of inner turmoil. Some find it hard to think clearly and to remain peaceful and product...
Mental health that’s permanent and secure
Mental health is an issue that is often examined by the media, debated in political spheres and health insurance companies, and discussed widely on college campuses. Yet some of these discussions a...