275: One Mormon Family's Battle with Mental Illness Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Natasha Helfer Parker anonymously interviews a mother/son duo about the unique challenges of experiencing mental illness as an active Mormon family. Mother and son candidly discuss what they went through as she faced a nervous breakdown, comorbidity of several diagnoses, suicidality and her history of sexual abuse during her childhood. Discussion on how their Mormon faith both helped and hindered aspects of their healing is broached as well as thoughts and direction for others who may be facing similar situations.

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0:26.6	at MormonStories.org.
0:29.3	Hello and welcome to another episode of Mormon Stories.
0:31.9	This is Natasha Helfer Parker and tonight I'll be interviewing a mother-son team regarding
0:38.0	some mental health illness that has affected their family experience due to the sensitive
0:46.4	personal nature of some of the information that they will be sharing.
0:50.3	We will be conducting this interview anonymously.
0:53.4	The son in this team is known as J.M.B.275 on the blogger knackle and writes for the site
1:03.0	We and Tears.
1:04.5	Correct?
1:05.5	Yes.
1:06.5	That's right.
1:07.5	I also wrote for Mormon Matters.
1:09.5	Okay.
1:10.5	Okay.
1:11.5	And he's 30 years old and he's an engineer currently getting his PhD in aerospace engineering
1:16.7	at, quote, a rather large university in Michigan.
1:22.1	You can guess which one.
1:23.1	Okay.
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