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Promoting
mental health within churches to:
- Explore how mental health effects us all and challenge
stigma.
- Encourage personal stories to be shared of hope through
experiences of despair.
- Consider the relationship between mental health and spirituality.
Recognising
that:
- Churches, as networks of people, can be very welcoming
and supportive.
- People within churches can also have a lack of understanding about
mental health issues, especially if they fall outside ones's personal family histories.
- People can feel isolated within churches
for a number of reasons, including being unable to share one's own experiences of poor mental health.
- Sharing with others who have some experience of poor mental
health can help to overcome feelings of isolation and misunderstanding.
Please send in your
own stories.
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