Why Am I Feeling Like This? A Teen’s Guide to Freedom from Anxiety and Depression

by David Murray

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2020

Overview

If you have experienced anxiety or depression, you may have asked yourself, Why am I feeling like this?

You are not alone.

Pastor and counselor David Murray introduces you to the personal accounts of eighteen teens who have struggled with different types of anxiety or depression. This guide will help you discover not only the common causes but also the keys to unlock their chains. By utilizing God-given truths and tactics, you can experience new liberty, peace, and joy in your life.

Key Features

• Guides parents as they seek to help their child through anxiety or depression
• Encourages teenagers with the hope of peace that God offers in their anxiety
• Equips teens and parents with practical tools to work through anxiety or depression

Contents

• Introduction: Why Am I Feeling Like This?
• Circular Sarah
• Tense Tom
• Doomed Dave
• Imaginative Imogen
• Panicky Paul
• Faithless Flavia
• Controlling Colin
• Depressed Dan
• Negative Nicole
• Workaholic Will
• Beautiful Brianna
• Media Max
• Friendly Fiona
• Bullied Benton
• Rebellious Rob
• Perfect Peyton
• Paralyzed Pam
• Lonely Luke
• Conclusion: Growing Freedom

Endorsements

As a parent of three daughters, I know teenagers fear talking to their parents about difficult subject matters like anxiety and depression. But this no longer has to be the case. My friend David Murray wrote a tool for teenagers to not only help them understand anxiety and depression but also give them guidance on how they can have tough conversations with their parents or other responsible adults

—Ed Stetzer, Executive Director, Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, Wheaton College

Parenting is good for our prayer lives, we find, especially when sons and daughters are navigating the many anxieties that seem to coincide with the teenage years. David Murray has the practical experience and spiritual wisdom to help. Based in biblical truth and at the same time sensitive to the psychological and physiological complexities of human emotions, Murray’s companion guides tell real-life stories that empower teens and their parents to understand their feelings, care well for one another, and take concrete steps toward healing together.

—Phil and Lisa Ryken, President, Wheaton College, and his wife, Lisa Ryken

For years, I have been scouring shelves for solid and practical teen resources that blend Christian faith and mental health. My search is over! In Why Am I Feeling Like This?, David Murray offers engaging wisdom that addresses common teenage thought hurdles that perpetuate anxiety and depression, all in a voice that resonates with a teen reader. I am thrilled to add this book to my professional library.

—Emilie DeYoung, Supervisor for Child and Adolescent Counseling, Family Wellness Center, Zeeland, Michigan

Product Details

• Title: Why Am I Feeling like This?: A Teen’s Guide to Freedom from Anxiety and Depression
• Author: David Murray
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 134
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Anxiety › Religious aspects--Christianity; Depression, mental › Religious aspects--Christianity; Depression in adolescence › Religious aspects--Christianity; Teenagers › Mental health
• ISBNs: 9781433567186, 9781433567216, 9781433567193, 9781433567209, 1433567180, 1433567210, 1433567199, 1433567202
• Resource ID: LLS:WHYFEELLKTHIS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:49:49Z

About David Murray

David Murray is a professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. He was ordained to the ministry in 1995 and pastored two churches in Scotland for twelve years. Murray is the author of Jesus on Every Page, Christians Get Depressed Too, and How Sermons Work. He regularly speaks at conferences in North American and beyond.

 

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