Mental health
How can I think about . . . depression?
Depression doesn't have to be chronic to feel overwhelming. But as our guests' stories show, there is also a way out of those dark feelings, no matter how overwhelming they seem. Join us...
Freed from anxiety and suicidal depression
For many years I struggled with suicidal depression, intense anxiety, and low self-esteem. I ached to understand who I was. I grew up attending Christian Science Sunday School, but I wrestled with...
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,...
Overcoming suicidal thoughts
I’ve felt drawn to suicide more than once in my life, but I didn’t really rebel against it until just over three years ago, when the intensity of the pull felt overwhelming. According to a website,...