Category: mental illness

  • Altered States Don’t Define Me

    I am quite insaneI have a corrupted brainMy neurotransmittersAre out of syncIt affectsThe way I thinkSome days I’m inA dark malaiseYet, in despairLike hymn writerWilliam CowperChrist – I do praiseSome days I’m onA manic highI need sanityTo come nighAt times I haveTerrifying psychosisYet my mindRemains precociousSometimes I’m delusionalThat is quite unusualI may meow like a…

  • Freedom in Christ

    In the dawnOf the new millenniumI lost my sanityChaos reignedIn my mindDisconnected thoughtsVoices in my headMy eyes deceived meHallucinations aboundedI slowlyBecame very depressedAlmost lostThe will to liveBut at my lowestWith a fracturedMindI found ChristWaiting for meChoosing meTo saveTo adoptHe is nowAnd forever shall beMy GodMy LordAnd my SaviorGlory to God By Zachary Uram(c) 2023

  • My Fractured Mind

    I lost my mind you seeYes, it happened to me Twas a score and threeYears ago, since I began my misery I was struck down in my primeIt happened in an instant of time One day I woke up hearing voicesMy mind was in pieces Visual hallucinations followed soonI was now a loon I was…

  • My Broken Mind

    I am crazy and barking madI’m quite insaneThis is my sad refrain At the turn of the millennium‘Twas a score and threeSince I lost my sanity Now my days are troubledFilled with pain and woeWe truly reap what we sow My thoughts are speeding pastIt’s a superluminal raceI can’t keep up the pace Delusions and…

  • New Year Medley 2023

    Happy New Year – 2023! Here are a few songs to ring in the new year. Where Have All The Flowers Gone This is a very poignant anti-war anthem performed by the 60’s folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary. Lyrics Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers…

  • Transgender insanity

    It is a simple biological fact that you cannot change your sex. Gender = biological sex. There are only 2 sexes, male and female, and thus only 2 genders. This has been the accepted wisdom until the past 20-25 years. Slowly, but surely, as the LGBT movement has grown and become powerful and widely accepted…

  • The Reformed Church in America: Dating and Dysfunction

    It’s not easy being a 47-year-old (never married) single Reformed man, who is disabled and suffering from severe mental illnesses, in America and looking for a godly wife. I’m in a Reformed singles group on Facebook and after several years of careful observation, I must sadly recognize that the vast majority of the Reformed women…

  • Overwhelmed: Breaking Point

    I have so much wrong with me! I NEED YOUR PRAYERS DESPERATELY! PRAYERS FOR ME AND MY FAMILY WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED!!! Satan is a liar! I will not fall into despair, bitterness, or anger. “Though He slay me, yet will I hope in Him.” Job 13:15 My physical and mental suffering unites me with…

  • Advice to a friend concerning mental health

    We are all sinners and subject to natural death, our bodies slowly break down as we age. Many are quite familiar with common physical ailments, yet our minds can also become broken. These are all effects of the Fall. Sadly there is a negative stigma against those suffering from mental illness. And many sufferers never…

  • A Reformed conversation on nouthetic and biblical counseling

    I just had a very fruitful exchange with a dear brother, Philip, who is Reformed like me, and who suffers from serious mental illness like me, on the topic of my recent blog post on Jay Adam’s nouthetic counseling. If you’d like to read the blog post to see what precisely he responded to you…