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David C. Wilson. Conversation with God
Conversation with God
Table of Contents
Preface
Thatcher’s Children
When Illness Strikes
Christian Conversion
Early Prayers
Body Language
Healings
Hearing Voices?
Kept Up All Night!
Good Science—Bad Theology
Old Truths—New Contexts
Prophecy—The Old Testament Model
Depression In The Old Testament
Fasting—An Aid to Dialogue?
Composite Prophecy
Intimacy with God
My Burden is Light
In the Cool of the Day
Authoritative Sources Consulted
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A Christian Experience of Depression
David C. Wilson
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The death throes of the small ‘grocers’ of the financial services industry lay as a backdrop to our own problems. Unfortunately, it was an interactive backdrop, for not only did it impose punitive increases in our costs, it pervaded the atmosphere of the industry and distorted all planning for the future. It was about this time that Chris first became ill, and it is arguable that the additional stresses imposed upon us by the regulators contributed significantly to that illness.
At the outset of the illness, sufferers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome usually become aware of physical symptoms such as muscle and joint pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, abdominal discomfort, and body temperature fluctuations, but there is a second set of symptoms which are of potentially greater significance. This group comprises sheer mental incapacity of a completely debilitating order, invariably including impairment of memory, a persistent lack of concentration, and often difficulty in comprehending the spoken word. Keyboard performance, that is, the use of a typewriter or word processor displays these problems in microcosm, where the work produced frequently contains omissions and repetitions, and where work sessions are severely curtailed, perhaps restricted to only thirty minutes duration. Most professionals and business people struggle ‘manfully’ on in the face of physical pain and discomfort, given that their work is often sedentary and of a cerebral nature, but they are simply unable to function in the face of such mental incapacity. It is arguably this latter group of symptoms which terminate so many professional careers, and was certainly responsible for Chris’s long, slow slide into firstly anorexia, and secondly depression.
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