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Five things I’ve learned living as a Christian mum with depression
Dr Sharon Hastings, author of Wrestling With My Thoughts and Tending To My Thoughts, shares her five key lessons after having her son.
I’m a Christian and I have schizoaffective disorder, a mental illness which affects mood and thought. Three years ago, I became a mum. My first year with my son was filled with happiness, but during the last two years, joy has sometimes been buried deep as I have wrestled with long bouts of depression.
Here are five things I have learnt about life as a Christian mum with depression.
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