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CCN WEEKLY SOLUTIONS SERIES
THE WEEK OF MAY 11, 2009
Temporarily Out of Order, 3:
Slipping into Darkness
Featuring
Dr. Henry Cloud
Psychologist
Best-selling co-author of Boundaries series,
Author, The Secret Things of God
and The One-Life Solution
I. Introduction
Depression: the experience of hopelessness
A high percentage of people experience depression
Depression is treatable—but one has to do the right things
II. What is depression?
Depression: things are de-pressed—pressed down
People may be literally unable to move
Less depressed people may normalize a sense of grayness
Clinical depression can interfere with function
Symptoms of depression
- Mood and loss of energy
- Thinking gets painful—the mind generates negative thoughts
- Anhedonia ‘life without pleasure’
- Hopelessness
- Loss of libido, disturbed sleep cycle, change of appetite
Depression affects heart, mind, soul, and strength
III. What causes depression?
Depression is about loss
1. Love; basic attachments
When we are without love or lose love, that’s a loss
2. Power; self-control
Learned helplessness: ‘nothing I can do will make a difference’
3. A loss of feeling OK about our negative parts
A hurt or wound that one has never been able to resolve
4. Achievement of adulthood: equal with other adults
Stuck in the child position: “one down”
5. Trauma
Something happens in life that taps into unresolved issues
IV. What you do about this
1. Get connected: groups, counseling
2. Power: boundaries and self-control, being assertive
3. Pain and loss: grief and forgiveness work
Do this in a relational setting
Critical thinking: cognitive therapy
The three P’s —personalizing, pervasive, permanent
4. Talents: Get a life—and do it in steps
V. The biology of depression
Depression can be an altered chemical state in the brain
It’s not a spiritual problem: the brain needs the chemicals it needs
Antidepressants are medical interventions to a biological problem
They’re not unspiritual
Small Group Discussion Questions
Temporarily Out of Order, 3—Slipping into Darkness
1. How have you seen your guilt affecting your relationships?
2. Have you ever experienced your church as a place that administers guilt rather than grace? What could you do to change that?
3. How might you experience the difference between guilt and godly sorrow?
4. How can you experience God’s grace incarnationally? How can you extend it?
Next week on Solutions:
Temporarily Out of Order, 4: “Worried Sick”
Resources
Changes that Heal
by Dr. Henry Cloud
The One-Life Solution
by Dr. Henry Cloud
Solutions video and schedule
Sponsored In Part By:
New Life Ministries is a fully-equipped resource for the treatment of mental and spiritual health issues.
Contact Information
Dr. Henry Cloud
Cloud-Townsend Resources
18092 Sky Park South, Suite A
Irvine, CA 92614
Phone: 800-676-4673
Web:
Church Communication Network
PO Box 1718
Mountain View, CA 94042
Phone: 800-321-6781
Fax: 650-745-0660
Email: ccninfo@
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It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,… for when a face is sad, a heart may be glad.
—Ecclesiastes 7:2a, 3b
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
—Proverbs 13:12a
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