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Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

Sheila Walsh: My Struggle with Mental Health and Journey to Healing | Ep. 15

Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

TBN

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Tv & Film

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today, Sheila Walsh tells Kirk Cameron her story of struggling with mental health which landed her in a psychiatric hospital. She also talks about her road to healing and how we as Christians should deal with our own depression and anxiety.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:26.3

Our first guest is international recording artist, best-selling author, Bible teacher, and television host, Sheila Walsh. Sheila, thanks so much for joining me today.

0:29.6

Oh, it's great to be with you. I love your new show.

0:33.6

Well, thank you very much, and my mom speaks so highly of you when you had a chance to talk with her on her podcast called Splash. And this subject that we're talking about today, the struggle that so many people have mentally and emotionally with anxiety, with depression, that's something that you know a lot about. In fact, you've really talked often publicly

0:54.6

about your personal struggle with clinical depression. And you've written lots of resources to

0:59.0

help people with these mental and emotional struggles. For those who aren't familiar, can you just

1:03.4

briefly share your story with them? Sure. I was born on the west coast of Scotland, a small

1:09.0

fishing town, and raised by a Christian mum and dad,

1:12.4

which wouldn't be unusual in America, but very unusual in Scotland where probably less than 2% of our population even go to church.

1:20.1

But when I was five years old, my father had a massive brain aneurysm, which changed his personality.

1:26.1

And he went from being this loving, kind,

1:28.3

Jesus loving dad to this frightening stranger.

1:31.3

And on the very last day he spent in our home,

1:34.3

my father tried to bring his cane down on my skull,

1:38.3

and I fought back.

1:39.3

And he was taken off that day to our local psychiatric hospital

1:43.3

where eventually he escaped and died by

1:45.8

suicide. And back in those days, you didn't talk about things like that. In fact, it was kind of a

1:51.6

disgrace that a Christian would be hospitalized. So my dad was buried in an unmarked grave, and we left

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