Mental Illness, Addiction and Hope with 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


You can hear more from our guest here: drjimstout.com