Testimony of Healing March 19, 1977 Issue

Christian Science came to me at a time when the whole world...

Ruth Kirkbride Hansen with contributions from Martha J. Holme, Barbara Jackson

Christian Science came to me at a time when the whole world seemed upside down, and indeed it was, as far as I was concerned. I was young, out of high school, and had been in the business world for about five years. I worked for a large oil company, where I was promoted from one boring job to another. I enjoyed whatever I did until I learned how to do it, then felt I had to move on to the next experience, not really feeling fulfilled in anything.

At this same time in my life I started a little business of my own, which I worked at during my free hours. It was a small doll business, and because the company gave me a write-up in our worldwide magazine, I had orders that I knew I would never be able to fill. However, I did try to fill the local orders, and this meant I was kept pretty busy most of my free time.

Unbeknown to me at the time, I was inflicting on myself a state of pressure for deadline orders, since Christmas was coming and I had more than I could handle without pushing my efforts. The result was my family doctor (I was not a student of Christian Science at the time) advised me I was heading toward a nervous breakdown. He told me to stop whatever I was doing immediately for a period of at least six months, since he believed it would take that long for me to come out of the mental depression.

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