From Breakdown to Breakthrough: God Really Wants You to Get Better

From Breakdown to Breakthrough is a brilliantly written, genuinely personal, roller coaster ride of long-term depression, destructive living, and restorative faith. Tom Bruner tells his unsettling first-person account of life with deep-seated depression and its detrimental effects. He delves deeply into this mental illness memoir, tracing his handicapped health from elementary school through adulthood. He offers a glimpse of what the consequences are when dealing with untreated depression. Pornography, sex, and other vices associated with the good life were all part of Tom’s lifestyle, leaving him confused and devastated at times. Even though Tom didn’t feel any relief from these experiences, he still continued down that road, illogically confident that one day it would work itself out. Only when he admitted himself into a Christian psychiatric hospital did he start to gain some brief clarity. It wasn’t until twenty years later, however, did he feel as though he had left that part of his life behind. Tom provides the intimate details of how God became the anchor in which he could hang on to. After a period of self examination, Tom came face to face with the crippling issues that plagued him. In this book, Tom shares these issues and the tools he discovered to breakthrough to the life he knew was so close, but could never seem to reach. Tom finds a link between mental health and spirituality. This book is not one of a number of self help books that deals only with depression in men. But in Breakdown to Breakthrough, there is self help in depression. Tom writes about his experience of why the church is lags so far back from the world in the area of mental health bringing to light how many churches handle those afflicted with depression. You will feel better after reading this book. Isn’t it time you found out how you can heal and recover from depression?