Begging For a Bed: The U.S. Mental Health System

Begging For a Bed: The U.S. Mental Health System

I was a teenager the first time I visited someone in a psychiatric hospital. As any teenager would, I assumed this would be a one-off occurrence. But, as fate would have it, I unwittingly became a skilled navigator of the complicated and tortuous mental health system...
Walking With Jesus Comes With Suffering

Walking With Jesus Comes With Suffering

All this talk of suffering. It’s all so depressing. But during the season of Lent, why wouldn’t it be? Perhaps, if we leaned into this feeling, we could offer more support to those who suffer with mental illness, the “oddballs” and the quiet geniuses. I’ve been...