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Depression

Christian Life
Depression
Doubt
2022-10-119Comments

The Sad Christian

The other day, I woke up at 2am to an unwelcome visitor. Unfortunately, I have become all too acquainted with this presence. I don’t know how to explain it. When it is...
by C Michael Patton
Christian Life
Depression
Suffering and Pain
Suicide
2022-03-1017Comments

When We Are Suicidal or Just Want to Die

For many of us, “Monday morning blues” simply refers to that mild sadness many of us feel when the weekend break is over. The prospect of a long week of the daily...
by C Michael Patton
Anthropology
Christian Life
Depression
2021-04-103Comments

The Poverty of Loneliness

Mother Theresa had this right. I have seen this all my life, tried my best to deal with it many years as a singles’ pastor, and experience it myself in some areas of my life...
by C Michael Patton
Christian Life
Depression
2020-08-080Comments

For Christians Who Want to Die

For Christians Who Want to Die Often times, as Christians, we want to die. We may not express this out loud to too many people, but it is there nonetheless. The guilt that we...
by C Michael Patton
Depression
Doubt
2019-08-0311Comments

12 Diagnostic Questions I Ask of Those Doubting Their Faith

1. What are you doubting? There are three primary things people doubt: 1) Their salvation, 2) God’s love for them, 3) Fundamental issues of the faith. Included with the...
by C Michael Patton
Angels and Demons
Depression
2019-04-189Comments

Are Demons Afraid of Zoloft? Toward and Evangelical Demonology

I remember in seminary Dr. Frank Minirth covering my class on pastoral counseling. He was an internationally know Christian psychiatrist who had a successful ministry in...
by C Michael Patton
Christian Life
Depression
Suffering and Pain
Suicide
2018-10-010Comments

My Honest Conversation with Michael Patton About Wanting to Die

An Honest and Vulnerable Prayer God, please kill me. This is a prayer I prayed with tears in my eyes for two and a half hours early Monday morning. Please. I will never ask...
by Dylan Whittler
Depression
Uncategorized
2018-09-2633Comments

7 Things NOT to Say to a Depressed Christian

Handling a Depressed Christian As many of you know, I’ve been through the ringer of depression (more like a black hole). I had a major breakdown in March of 2010. It came out...
by C Michael Patton
Credo House Ministries
Christian Life
Depression
Suffering and Pain
Suicide
Uncategorized
2018-09-050Comments

Hope in Lamenting: When Life Has No Easy Answers

Sometimes, there’s no easy answer—or an answer at all!—for life’s hardest questions, especially for a Christian.  I doubt no one really wants to know the reason...
by Dylan Whittler
Depression
Doubt
Personal (Michael Patton)
Suffering and Pain
2016-08-3118Comments

Waiting to Die

Over the last year, I have been hospitalized with a condition called rhabdomyolysis nine times. Each time, my kidney’s shut down. A few of these times the doctors said I...
by C Michael Patton
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