Battling Depression

A couple of short video clips from counselor Ed Welch:

And in this video Welch shares a little bit of his own story as his father struggled with depression:

Some other resources that may be helpful:

 

Ed Welch, Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness (revised edition)
Ed Welch, Depression: The Way Up When You Are Down (booklet)
David Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too
John Piper, When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—and Joy
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure
“Depression and the Ministry” (blog series by BCC & TGC)

For those in ministry, the writings by and about Charles Spurgeon on depression may be particularly valuable:

Charles Spurgeon, “The Minister’s Fainting Fits” in Lectures to My Students
Darrel W. Amundsen, “The Anguish and Agonies of Charles Spurgeon“
Zack Eswine, “Listening for the Sound of Reality: The Melancholy of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Haddon Spurgeon“
John Piper, “Charles Spurgeon: Preaching through Adversity“
Randy Alcorn on how Spurgeon’s writings on depression helped him go through his own depression in 2007 (part 1, part 2, part 3)