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Healed of depression
First printed in El Heraldo de la Ciencia Cristiana, the Spanish edition of The Herald of Christian Science.
I went through a period when I was taking many psychopharmaceuticals because I couldn’t sleep. I was distraught and very depressed, and felt the need to lie down several times a day. My husband used to cook for me and our small children. The sleeping pills I took seemed to cushion the painful vision I had of life, numbing my feelings.
A year before, my sister had given me the book Science and Health, but I wasn’t interested and had kept it in a bookcase. I don’t know what made me open the book. But at one point, I started reading and then attending the meetings of a Christian Science group that had been formed near where I live.
Science and Health opened an understanding of the Bible for me. At night, I would read Psalm 23 and some pages from Science and Health, where I found declarations that strengthened me a lot, among them: “Being is holiness, harmony, immortality” (p. 492), and “Truth is always the victor” (p. 380).
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March 21, 2011 issue
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Letters
Ellen Adkinson Reddingius, Don Snyder, Kristen Coleman, Betty Sheedy, Mary Lou Mckibben
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Shine the light on depression
Steve Graham, Managing Editor, Sentinel, Journal, and Herald
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Church of England seeks to mobilize members
Maria Mackay
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Book explores bridging of Jewish/Christian divide
Jessica Kiefer
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A healing hand for soldiers
Dan Elliott
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Computers that watch, and the ever-watchful God
Channing Walker
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Choose the reality of omnipotent God
Kathy Fitzer
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Your questions about Church
Martha Moffett, Robert Ennemoser
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The right mentor for me
By Betsie Tegtmeyer
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Letting the Bible speak to us
By Roberta Wallace
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Find your center
By Jan Keeler
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Blessed not depressed
By Elise Moore
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No dark past, just God’s now
By Patti C. Christopher
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Healed of bipolar disorder
Name removed by request
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How have you seen prayer combat depression?
Judy, Joseph, Jan
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Prayer on the trail
By Katie Thompson
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Corrective vision
By Walter Rodgers
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An unexpected guest
Joan Lakin Mikkelsen
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Healed of smoking habit
Nancy W. Serini
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Healed of injuries after a car accident
Laurie Jones Whitehead
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Healed of depression
Yolanda Radiccioni
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‘Who shall be greatest?’
The Editors