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How to Get What You Want By Changing Your Mind: Finding Life's Lessons
in Art
During his senior year of 1982, while majoring in Studio Art at Georgia
State University, Jerome Lawrence received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Jerome
continued to paint as he had all his life and he has now been in recovery for many years. (click here to read more)
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Scripture Stickies
Menlo Park, CA
Scripture Stickies makes stickable Bible verses designed to help people memorize and
meditate on the Word of God. The Bible offers comfort, peace, and practical advice for
those living and coping with mental illness. (click
here to read more)
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Caring for People with Brain Disorders
Joann Davis
Joann Davis is the director of Ministry with Persons with disAbilities for the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan. While her office provides services to people with all manner of disAbilities, ministry to people with brain disorders drew her attention for this article. (click here to read more)
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Art and Healing
Rosemary C. Lawyer
I no longer want to hide from this blanket of darkness called depression. I want to feel good again. I want to be able to touch it, see it and share it. Art has given me that ray of light that I was looking for. So many people suffer as I do and their creativity helps them to heal and feel whole again. (click here to read more)
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Gift Baskets
Denise Fletcher
Denise Fletcher has a degree in Recreational Therapy from Minnesota State University wrote me about an idea to develop a "Comfort Kit Basket." Faith communities can put together baskets that could be given to persons with a mental illness such as people in clubhouses, drop-in centers, group homes, psychiatric hospitals, shelters. Different faith traditions can decide what to include in these "Comfort Kit Baskets". Some suggestions are a small pocket Bible and/or a book of Psalms. The free downloadable brochure on "Scriptures for Comfort" could be included. It is available on this website in the Other Resources section. (click here to read more)
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Pet Therapy
Mississauga and the province of Ontario, Canada
I have had bipolar depression since 1993. I love animals and decided to keep birds. I bought 18 budgies, commonly known as parakeets. They got me up in the morning as I had to feed them. Budgies are very social creatures. It was great to see their antics and I certainly had lots of feathered friends "to talk to"! My doctor said that it was the greatest therapy and would do me a lot of good. He was right. (click here to read more)
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