Alternate Labels

• Downcast
• Despair
• Despondency
• Discouragement
• Bipolar Disorder
• Manic Depressive

Web Links

• Spurgeon: Encouragement for the Depressed
• Baxter: The Cure of Melancholy
• Winsor: Good Grief
• Tripp: Grief – Finding Hope Again

Key Passages

• Genesis 4:6-7
• Deuteronomy 28:65-66
• Psalm 42:5-6, 11
• 2 Corinthians 1:8-10
• 2 Corinthians 4:7-18
• 2 Corinthians 7:5-7

Reading List

• Despondency | New Nave’s Topical Bible
• Depression | Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling
• Depression | Competent to Counsel
• Helping Depressed Persons | The Christian Counselor’s Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling
• Depression: A Study Guide | Curing the Heart: A Model for Biblical Counseling
• Depression | Those Ugly Emotions: How to Manage Your Emotions
• Dealing with Depression | God is There in the Tough Times