Category: mental illness
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BipolarBrave Mental Health + Faith Awards Results for 2026
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Happy World Bipolar Day The awards are wrapped! To find out who placed and won, see my Substack post here. As you took the time to visit my blog post, I want to thank you for your support. I still want to keep this blog on my site active, but…
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Announcing the 5th Annual BipolarBrave Awards 2026
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🏆The Vote is Open📮 In the world of church and mental health, there’s a remnant of advocates called to stand up to raise awareness and erase stigma. From Christ-following mental health clinicians to peers with lived experience, pastors to nonprofits, podcasts to broadcasts, these are dedicated servants in God’s kingdom,…
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Serious About Serious Series: What Every Mental Health Provider Should Know About Serious Mental Illness
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This is the second of a series of posts on Serious Mental Illness, “Serious About Serious Series: What Every ____ Should Know About Serious Mental Illness”. In case you missed it, here’s the link to my first post on What Every Pastor Should Know About Serious Mental Illness. Herein, I…
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A Biblical Response to Mental Illness
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Today on the BipolarBrave blog, my friend and fellow writer, Bethany Marinelli, guest posts about how she responds to cliché answers and platitudes from the church as a Christian with bipolar disorder. I am so grateful for her friendship. We met at the Florida Christian Writers Conference in 2021, where…
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Is My Mental Illness To Blame?
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There is much gray area to this topic, in my opinion. In mental illness, we get a lot of things mixed up and turned upside down. Who, or what, is to blame when a symptom influences my thinking and leads me into sin? Is my disorder at fault? Or am…
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Mental Illness Can’t Make You Lose Hope
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On a Facebook group post, a person expressed how they were losing hope in their mind. While I cannot disprove their perspective, I disagree with that philosophy. Here’s my take: Your heart is the primary hope-cultivator, not your mind Hope starts in the heart, and your heart is where the…
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Psychosis: How Did I End Up There?
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This week I’ll be interviewed by my friend Laura Howe on her Care Ministry Podcast. I am writing this blog post to review and refresh myself and you on psychosis, as it can unfold, and how it unfolded for me. I will be discussing this in detail with Laura and…
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The Case for Reclassification: Serious Mental Illness to Serious Brain Disorder
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What’s in a Name? Recently, the term Serious Brain Disorder (SBD) has been circulating in my Facebook mental health advocacy groups more and more. At first, it seemed as if these circles of advocates wanted the insurance companies to code Serious Mental Illnesses (SMIs) differently so they would issue better…
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Help For a Spouse In Crisis
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Being a caregiver to someone with a brain-based chronic condition can be taxing and require all the resources you can possibly find, especially for a spouse in crisis. Here are a few preventative-type steps to take and what resources to look for, plus what to do in a crisis: Go…
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Are “Chemical Imbalances” Real or Not?
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I had a comment about chemical imbalances from a person named Chris a while back and I wanted to address it in a post. Question How do we know “chemical imbalances” are real? Are there any blood tests or brain scans that can prove their existence beyond all reasonable doubt?…