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It is a staggering fact that according to the World Health Organization, 100 million people are depressed at any one time. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of people in the United Kingdom consulting their doctors complaining of depression more than doubled. Winston Churchill referred to depression as his ‘black dog’, and Samuel Johnson called it, ‘this vile melancholy’. When in its grip, Abraham...

knows that his destiny is in the hand of God. His faith will not be shaken, yet he finds it hard to absorb this truth into his present condition. Here is one of the great problems that we face when dealing with depression. We can accept that our bodies and minds will undergo stress and conflict as we go through life—but surely our faith will always rise above such things? Ultimately it will; but when we are depressed the great fact of salvation is often buried beneath intense feelings of guilt, doubt
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