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Christians Get Depressed Too: Hope And Help For Depressed People (2010)

by David P. Murray(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1601781008 (ISBN13: 9781601781000)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Reformation Heritage Books

review 1: Depression has often been viewed with a stigma, particularly among Christians who seem reluctant to admit any areas of weakness or need in their personal lives. Countering such unhelpful attitudes is Murray’s booklet, a brief examination of the reality of depression—even among believers—and the seriousness with which it must be handled. Though he does not delve much beyond introductory explanations, Murray has put together an insightful, and necessary, starting point that deserves our attention.
review 2: First off, this probably isn't the book for a person with anything worse that a mild depression. This book is perhaps most helpful as a brief, academic sketch of sensitive, Biblical depression counseling for concerned friends, potential caregivers, and c... moreounselors. While Murray provides a chapter geared at the potentially depressed person, his solutions are far too generalized and brief to be of significant impact in their own right, though he does pepper his advice with next-step resources and recommendations for further reading.Murray lays out and counters common assumptions and misconceptions surrounding the depressed Christians, most prominently that "depressed" Christians are either faithless pretenders or plagued by some secret sin since no REAL Christian suffers from depression. Regarding sources and treatment, Murray finds moderate ground between the extremes of too-secular counseling (which ignores or avoids Christian principles and/or the spiritual element completely), too-spiritual counseling (which ignores legitimate biological factors and solutions), and too-medicinal/biological solutions (which rely too heavily on medicinal treatment alone). The bulk of this book seems to be a counter to prominent Christian thinking that tends to err on assumption that depression must be sin-related and self-inflicted which, of course, is not always the case.Overall, the book is a helpful introduction to the subject, though not an exhaustive resource. less

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