Will Medicine Stop the Pain? Finding God's Healing for Depression, Anxiety, and other Troubling Emotions
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Twice as many women as men will experience depression sometime in their lifetime, and episodes for women are likely to start at earlier ages, last longer, and recur more frequently, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Many women are given medication to treat the disease, but medication alone does not always address the underlying emotions which trouble the mind and spirit. Counselor Elyse Fitzpatrick and Dr. Laura Hendrickson provide biblical guidance on how to balance medical intervention with biblical encouragement.
Part One: Our Bodies, Emotions, and the Problem of Suffering
1. What's Wrong With Me?
2. Will Medicine Help My Pain?
3. Lord, Why Do You Let me Hurt?
4. Lord, Why Did Your Hurt Your Son?
Part Two: Seeking Answers with God's Help
5. Depression: An Opportunity in Disguise
6. Casting All Your Anxiety on Him
7. Understanding Your Out-of-Control Moods
8. What About Cognitive and Perceptual Problems?
9. All For the Glory of God
I urge you to read this book all the way through—with a prayerful heart and an open mind. It may be one of the most important, helpful books you have read. It will likely challenge your thinking on many fronts. It will certainly give you a vision for how your suffering (and the suffering of others) can become a path to great blessing and growth and can result in the display of God’s glory in this fallen world.
-From the foreword by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
-From the foreword by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Product Details
- Title : Will Medicine Stop the Pain?: Finding God's Healing for Depression, Anxiety, and other Troubling Emotions
- Authors:
- Fitzpatrick, Elyse M.
- Hendrickson, Laura
- DeMoss, Nancy Leigh
- Publisher: Moody Publishers
- Publication Date: 2008
- ISBN: 9780802480255
ELYSE FITZPATRICK has been counseling women since 1989 and is presently a part-time counselor at Grace Church in San Diego. She holds a certificate in biblical counseling from the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation (San Diego) and an M.A. in Biblical Counseling from Trinity Theological Seminary. Elyse is the author of twelve books including Women Helping Women, Love to Eat, Hate to Eat, Idols of the Heart, and The Afternoon of Life. She is a member of the National Association of Nouthetic Counseling. A frequent speaker at women's conferences, she has been married for nearly thirty years and has three adult children and two grandchildren. She and her husband, Philip, reside in Escondido, California.
DR. LAURA HENDRICKSON (MD, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine; Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) was a medical doctor and board certified psychiatrist. She was a member of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors and author of Finding Your Child's Way on the Autism Spectrum, Will Medicine Stop the Pain? and co-author of When Good Kids Make Bad Choices. She lived in Southern California with her husband, Daniel, before her passing.
DR. LAURA HENDRICKSON (MD, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine; Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) was a medical doctor and board certified psychiatrist. She was a member of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors and author of Finding Your Child's Way on the Autism Spectrum, Will Medicine Stop the Pain? and co-author of When Good Kids Make Bad Choices. She lived in Southern California with her husband, Daniel, before her passing.