Mental Illness Addiction and Hope-Dr. Jim Stout

It was the watershed moment in my life. I don’t say that just looking back. I knew it at the time. A decision had to be made and there would be no turning back. I was mentally, spiritually, and physically exhausted.I had studied, laboriously studied. That’s what I do when I get stuck in a corner. I figure I must be in that corner because I didn’t know enough.  Then I feel stupid. How can you not feel stupid if you are stuck in this corner? Smart people don’t get stuck in corners like this, do they?Then I became an expert. I talked to more people about it. I read more. Now it felt like I was stuck in the corner with a suicide vest on. My only option out was to blow myself up.Have you ever felt stuck in a corner by something in life like that? Had I been the suicidal type, it would have been the end of me.Now I’m not going to name names or tell you where the bodies are buried, but I will give you the category. It’s called “Mental Illness”. In so many ways that defy definition because rational categories seem to elude it. If I keep trying to talk about this I am going to get myself in trouble so I have brought into the show today a man who is just crazy enough to understand what I am talking about, and just rational enough to make more sense out of it than I can.Dr. Jim Stout from Costa Mesa, California is a husband on one for over 50 years, a father of two, grandfather to 6, long time pastor, author, speaker, and handler of therapy dog “Thunder the Wonder Dog”.Welcome, Rev. Dr. Jim Stout to Church Hurts And. www.churchhurtsand.org