Mental Health — From Shame to Seeking Help

There is a stigma against admitting you have a mental illness, like it’s something that should only be talked about in whispers.

Our Courtship, Part Seven: Engagement and Marriage

“If we could survive courtship together, we think we can survive anything.”

Our Courtship, Part Six: Courtship by Committee

“I put the ring on my own finger; not exactly like how I had pictured it when I was a little girl.”

Our Courtship, Part Five: It Begins

“I was in love before, but I finally felt free to feel all those feelings.”

Our Courtship, Part Four: Falling in Love

“I was in denial about how deep my feelings went, because I simply wasn’t allowed to be in love before courtship.”

Our Courtship, Part Three: Missing Him

“I felt very ashamed to have such a strong crush — it wasn’t holy and pure to give so much of my heart to someone else before we were even courting.”

Our Courtship, Part Two: Boy Meets Girl

“I, like most homeschool girls, thought Pride and Prejudice was quite possibly the greatest love story ever written.”

Our Courtship, Part One: No Dating

“I felt guilty for the boyfriends I’d had in grade school; I wondered if I had already ruined my future marriage.”

5 Reasons Conflating Mental Illness with Demon Possession Hurts People

“Conflating demon possession with ‘madness’ hurts people. That may sound harsh, but this is a real problem. I have been hurt by this in the past, and in the present, and others have too. When people talk about an (apparently) mentally ill person and say ‘He was definitely demon possessed’ that hurts me as a person with a mental illness.”

Chaste Courtship and Ethics

“Parents who raise their children this way are trying to do what they think is best. The problem is, they are motivated by fear to control their children… Many fundamentalists probably operate under a consequentialist system of ethics.”