Recovering from Depression

Depression steals joy and brings pain. After serving for more than thirty years as a parish minister, the author was hospitalized for major depression and experienced the powers of this disease to destroy all that makes life good. In the years since, he has learned it is possible to recover the joy that depression had stolen. Always with honesty, often with humor, he shares the lessons he learned on his recovery journey back from being hospitalized to practicing his profession. He offers these lessons as ""Forty-Nine Helps,"" each a short chapter focused on a specific aid to recovery, each speaking the truth to depression's lies. Robert W. Griggs, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, has served churches in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Minnesota. He holds graduate degrees from Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and the University of Minnesota. He is active at Vail Place Uptown in Minneapolis, a clubhouse for people living with mental illness.