Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness (29 page)

15:3–6
73

15:58
230

1:3
184

1:3–4
185

1:8
218

1:8–10
211

1:20
220

1:24
245

2:11
50

3:18
220

4:8–9
96
,
218

4:16–18
190
,
219

6:5
218

7:4
245

7:7
245

10:5
53

11:14
50

11:23
218

11:24–25
218

11:25
218

12:7
30
,
218

12:10
163

13:14
251

1:3
250

1:6
174

1:11–2:14
174

3:1–25
175

3:26–29
175

4:15
173

4:21–31
175

5:1–5
175

5:3
175

5:6
71
,
175

6:2
203

1:6, 12, 14
72

1:11
155

1:17–23
40

2:10
185

3
211

3:14–19
40

4:19
113

4:26–27
144

5:1
75

5:8
75

1:6
154

1:21
73
,
231

1:23
230

1:25
245

2:5
75

3:4–11
176

3:7–11
231

4:8
105
,
239

4:19
133

2:19
245

5:18
244

3:5
79

1:16
80
,
145

4:8
190
,
204

6:17
245

2:3
83

1:3
35
,
181

2:10
37

3:12–13
203

5:8
123
,
211
,
216

10–12
210

10:25
102

11
85

11:6
84

11:27
84

12:1
81
,
115

12:2
45
,
79

12:8
56

12:10
82

12:10–11
75

13:5
154

1:2
241

1:2–4
26
,
122

1:3
81
,
211

1:12
84

4
146

5:7
81

5:11
81

1:6–7
122

1:7
226
,
230

1:8
245

1:18–19
185

2:23
143

5:8
50

1:4
98

1:5–6
82

3:9
78
–79

1:3–4
245

2:15
110

3:3
232

3:10
110

3:23
216

1
245

2:2, 19
82

21:4
231

22:20
235

1
. Origen, Homily XXVII on Numbers, sec. 4, CWS, 250; cited in Thomas Oden,
Classical Pastoral Care, Crisis Ministries,
vol. 4 (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994), 6.

1
. Quotes in this paragraph are from the following sources: Andrew Solomon, “Anatomy of Melancholy,”
The New Yorker,
January 12, 1998, 61. Robert Burton cited in John Green and James Jefferson,
Depression and Its Treatment
(New York: Warner, 1992), 4. Robert Lowell, “Skunk Hour.” Sandra McCoy, “Danny’s Descent into Hell,” A
Reader’s Digest
reprint. Martha Manning,
Undercurrents: A Therapist’s Reckoning with Depression
(New York: Harper, 1995), 10. Lillian V. Grissen,
A Path through the Sea
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), 9. J. B. Phillips,
The Price of Success
(New York: Shaw, 1985), 201. William Styron,
Darkness Visible
(New York: Vintage, 1990), 84. Unattributed quotes throughout this chapter are from conversations with individuals.

2
. Edie Bricknell, “Nothing.”

3
. C. S. Lewis, “The Naked Seed,”
Poems by C.
S.
Lewis
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964), 117.

4
. Solomon, “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 54.

5
. Elizabeth Wurtzel,
Prozac Nation
(New York: Riverhead), 22.

6
. Darrel Amundsen, “The Anguish and Agonies of Charles Spurgeon,”
Christian History
10 (1991), 64.

7
. Styron,
Darkness Visible,
38.

8
. “Spirit of the Age,”
The Economist,
December 19, 1998, 113.

9
. Ps. 32:3.

10
. J. Bunyan,
Pilgrim’s Progress
(Chicago: Moody, 1964), 33.

11
. Charles Spurgeon,
Lectures to My Students
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972), 24.

12
. Kay Redfield Jamison,
An Unquiet Mind
(New York: Random House, 1995), 114.

13
. Wurtzel,
Prozac Nation,
50.

14
. Cited in John H. Greist and James W. Jefferson,
Depression and Its Treatment
(New York: Warner, 1992), 8.

15
. Bruce Springsteen, “Brilliant Disguise.”

16
. W. Hulme and L. Hulme,
Wrestling with Depression: A Spiritual Guide to Reclaiming Life
(Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1995), 22.

17
. Cited in Edward Shorter,
From the Mind to the Body: The Cultural Origins of Psychosomatic Symptoms
(New York: Free Press, 1994), 135.

1
. American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1994), 327.

2
. Ibid., 349.

3
. C. H. Spurgeon,
The Sword and the Trowel,
2000:1, 11.

1
. Elizabeth Wurtzel,
Prozac Nation
(New York: Riverhead), 50.

1
. W. Hulme and L. Hulme,
Wrestling with Depression: A Spiritual Guide to Reclaiming Life
(Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1995), 45.

2
. K. Sempangi, A
Distant Grief
(Ventura, Calif.: Regal, 1979), 179.

3
. P. T. Forsyth,
The Justification of God
(London: Independent Press, 1917), 149.

4
. D. Bonhoeffer,
The Cost of Discipleship
(New York: Macmillan, 1967), 99.

5
. “William Cowper and His Affliction,”
The Banner of Truth
96 (Sept. 1971), 28.

1
. Thanks to Andree Seu, who pointed out this passage to me.

2
. C. S. Lewis,
The Screwtape Letters
(New York: Macmillan, 1977), 39.

1
. “William Cowper and His Affliction,”
The Banner of Truth
96 (Sept. 1971), 28.

1
. A. Camus,
The Myth of Sisyphus
(New York: Vintage, 1955), 10.

2
. S. Nichols,
Martin Luther: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought
(Phillipsburg, N.J.: P & R, 2002).

3
. The Westminster Shorter Catechism (available at various Web sites).

4
. C. S. Lewis,
The Screwtape Letters
(New York: Macmillan, 1977), 39.

1
. Kay Jamison, cited by A. Solomon, “Anatomy of Melancholy,”
The New Yorker,
January 12, 1998, 61.

2
. Martyn Lloyd-Jones,
Spiritual Depression
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), 21.

1
. James Buie, “‘Me’ Decades Generate Depression,”
APA Monitor,
February 1991, 18.

2
. Richard Lovelace,
Renewal
(Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1985), 86.

3
. Buie, “‘Me’ Decades Generate Depression,” 18.

4
. David Elkind describes these sociological changes in an old but still very relevant book,
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon
(Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 1989).

5
. E.g., James Petty,
Step By Step
(Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R, 1999).

6
. Blaise Pascal,
Pensees
136, trans. by A. J. Krailsheimer (London: Penguin, 1966).

7
. Augustine,
Confessions
(New York: Penguin, 1984), 22.

8
. C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory” in
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
(New York: Macmillan, 1980), 7.

1
. John Milton,
Paradise Lost
(New York, N.Y.: Penguin, 1968), 1:249–55, 54.

2
. Charles H. Spurgeon, “Repentance After Conversion,”
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit,
vol. 41 (London: Banner of Truth, 1895), sermon #2419.

3
. Blaise Pascal,
Pensees
192, trans. by A. J. Krailsheimer (London: Penguin, 1966).

1
. David Powlison,
Basic Biblical Concepts of Human Motivation,
unpublished. Also see, Paul Tripp, “Opening blind eyes: Another look at data gathering,”
Journal of Biblical Counseling
14:2 (1996): 6–11.

2
. E. R. Skoglund,
Bright Days, Dark Nights
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 86–87.

1
. Julia Thorne,
You Are Not Alone
(New York: Harper, 1993), 30.

1
. Westminster Confession of Faith, Shorter Catechism, Question 4.

1
. William and Lucy Hulme,
Wrestling with Depression
(Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1995), 28.

2
.
The Journals of Kierkegaard, 1834–1854,
edited and translated by Alexander Dru (London: Collins, 1958), 79–80.

3
.
The Heidelberg Catechism
(Cleveland, Ohio: United Church Press, 1962), 9.

1
. Robert J. DeRubeis, Lois A. Gelfand, Tony Z. Tang, and Anne D. Simons, “Medications Versus Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Severely Depressed Outpatients: Mega-Analysis of Four Randomized Comparisons,”
American Journal of Psychiatry
156 (1999): 1007–1013.

2
. S. A. Bull et al., “Discontinuation of use and switching of antidepressant drug treatment in depressive disorders: a systematic review,”
Lancet
361 (2003): 653–61.

3
. Depressions from known diseases tend to feel different from those described in chapter 2. The hopelessness, suicidal thinking, or self-loathing is missing.

4
. E.g., S. Stuart, M. W. O’Hara, and L. L. Gorman, “The Prevention and Treatment of Post-partum Depression,”
Archives of Women’s Mental Health
6 (Suppl.2), S57–S69.

5
. The UK ECT Review Group, “Efficacy and safety of electroconvulsive therapy in depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis,”
Lancet
361 (2003): 799–808.

1
. R. B. Giesler and W. B. Swann Jr., “Striving to Confirmation: The role of self-verification in depression,” in Thomas Joiner and James C. Coyne (eds.),
The Interactional Nature of Depression
(Washington, D.C.: The American Psychiatric Association, 1999), 189–218.

2
. K. R. Jamison,
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
(New York: Knopf, 1999), 291.

3
. Rose Styron, “Strands” in Nell Casey, ed.,
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
(New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 137.

1
. H. W. Frost,
Miraculous Healing
(New York: R. Smith, 1931), 45–46.

2
. Ernest Gordon,
Miracle on the River Kwai
(Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale, 1984), 158, 287.

1
. Nicholas Wolterstorff,
Lament for a Son
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987), 86.

2
. Jerry L. Walls,
Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy
(New York: Oxford, 2002), 175.