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Mental health is a major contributor to many ills within society and research suggests the pandemic is deteriorating mental health for many. Unfortunately, churches appear to struggle with the same issues of stigma and silence that surround mental illness in the broader culture. In this episode, Jessica, Carla and Blake discuss the state of mental health in America before and during the pandemic and discuss how churches can respond.

Knowing

• Personal Experience
• Mental Health Background Sources:
  • Mental Illness and Homelessness, https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/The_homeless_mentally_ill
  • Criminal Recidivism in Inmates with Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, http://jaapl.org/content/early/2020/02/12/JAAPL.003913-20
  • Mental Health and Intergeneration Disadvantage, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4894258/
  • ACE: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/about.html and https://acestoohigh.com/aces-101/
  • Mental Health in COVID Sources: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/ and https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm?s_cid=mm6932a1_w
  • Mental Health & Churches: https://lifewayresearch.com/mentalillnessstudy/ and https://uscatholic.org/articles/201903/catholics-must-do-more-to-accompany-people-with-mental-illness-says-this-deacon/

Reading

• How Churches can Promote Mental Health Through the Coronavirus Pandemic, Ethics and Religious Liberty Council

Passing On

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel von der Kolk
• Your Surge Capacity is Depleted and its Why you Feel Awful
• Grace Alliance
• Heather Nelson
• David Finnegan-Hosey: Christ on the Psyche Ward & Grace Is a Pre-Existing Condition

Related Episodes

• CFP Episode 130: Church and Mental Health in COVID-Land
• CFP Episode 128, Invisible Women