PDF Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

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Devout
A
Memoir
of
Doubt
Description
8220Ths moving memoir
is
always attuned to the
possibilities of
community and spiritual sustenance, even as it
refuses to efface the struggles at its
core8212beieving that this struggle, too, can
be a thing of beauty.82218212Lelie Jamison,
author of The RecoveringIn this revelatory
memoir, Anna Gazmarian tells the story
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of how her evangelical upbringing in North
Carolina failed to help her understand the mental
health diagnosis she received, and the work she
had to do to find proper medical treatment while
also maintaining her faith. When Anna is
diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2011,
she8217sfaced with a conundrum while the
diagnosis provides clarity about her manic and
depressive episodes, she must confront the stigma
that her evangelical community attaches to her
condition. Over the course of ten years, we
follow Anna on her journey to reframe her
understanding of mental health to expand the
limits of what her religious practice can offer.
In Devout A Memoir of Doubt, Anna shows that
pursuing our emotional health and our spiritual
well-being is one single mission and, in both
cases, an act of faith.