279: One Mormon Family's Battle with Mental Illness Pt. 5

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2011

⏱️ 53 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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0:29.6	Well, so we're kind of already touching on this.
0:34.6	I guess I want to formally ask for pieces of advice that you would give to
0:42.6	ward members that you would give to family members,
0:47.6	dealing with similar things, spouses, children,
0:51.6	and then to even the people who maybe are struggling with some of these issues themselves.
0:58.6	Who should go first?
1:01.6	It doesn't matter to me.
1:03.6	Okay, I'll go first.
1:06.6	Let's see, what have I got written in the advice column here?
1:12.6	By the way, I don't do advice.
1:15.6	No, truly, rarely solicited and seldom listened to, so I don't know.
1:22.6	Yes, yes.
1:23.6	No, I get that.
1:25.6	Well, lucky for the listeners, I don't have that pause.
1:30.6	Just teasing.
1:32.6	Let's see, so let's see.
1:36.6	What have I found useful?
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