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From Buster
Each of us has an organic, living brain which is prey to illnesses to which stigma is typically attached.
The psychic pain of acute depression is, one psychotherapist writes, "wholly incompatible with human life as we know it." Even the acutely depressed who successfully seek the help of a loving, supportive community like that of Sandy Ridge Baptist Church may not survive.
The North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports that in the death of pastor David Treadway of Sandy Ridge Baptist Church in Hickory.
Several months ago Treadway ... told the congregation he was under doctor’s care for depression. An early statement Sunday from church leadership said their pastor had “succumbed to the disease of depression.”
At the spiritual core of this is love for one another and freely given help for those in need -- now for his surviving family and congregation -- but also the others who are afflicted by one of the mental illnesses into which any of us may fall. No matter where we are, the latter are in fact all around us. There is no better time to notice.
Addendum
Hickory Daily Record obituary for David Treadway
Online Guestbook for David Treadway
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