Medical & Psychiatric Issues
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Overcoming Anxiety: Relief for Worried People
$5.20Retail: $6.50You know the feeling your mind keeps spinning around and around with the same worries, problems, and fears. You feel like you can't breathe. Some days your anxiety is so overwhelming that it's hard for you to believe that anyone, even God, could help...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Hope for the Depressed: Beyond a "Cheer-Up" Theology
$5.20Retail: $6.50Depression makes so many things hard. Things you used to take for granted: a good nights sleep, having goals, responding to someone's love, looking forward to the future. Is there any hope and help for those who are struggling with depression? Edward T...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Trusting God When You're Afraid
$5.20Retail: $6.50Suffering from anxiety and panic attacks can feel incapacitating. One minute you feel fine, and the next your heart is pounding, your mind is racing, and your stomach is clenching. Sometimes it even feels like you might be having a heart attack. The...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
PTSD: Healing for Bad Memories
$5.20Retail: $6.50The event occurred in the past, possibly many years ago, but you still carry it with you wherever you go. Some days the memory keeps replaying over and over again in your mind. You feel angry, jumpy, maybe even guilty or ashamed. You want to move on...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Freedom from Addiction: Turning from Your Addictive Behavior
$5.20Retail: $6.50You've tried to stop more times than you can count. Now you've given up. Can someone who can't "just say no" really change? There is hope—if you are willing to look deeper than your addictive behavior. Edward T. Welch helps you face what fuels...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
I Just Want to Die: Replacing Suicidal Thoughts with Hope
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are you having suicidal thoughts and feelings? Perhaps you are convinced that life is not worth living. Your life seems hopeless, like a black hole with all love, hope, and joy sucked out. David Powlison describes the various reasons you might be...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
I'm Exhausted: What to Do When You're Always Tired
$5.20Retail: $6.50As a chronic fatigue sufferer, life as you once enjoyed it has ceased. Fatigue can be brought on by a myriad of physical, emotional, or spiritual issues. But, whatever the cause, your entire world is now affected by your diminished physical strength...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Sexual Addiction: Freedom from Compulsive Behavior
$5.20Retail: $6.50If you're struggling with a sexual addiction of any sort, you understand that feeling of being trapped, out of control, and afraid of being found out. No matter what you try, it seems impossible to break free from the lure of illicit sexual thoughts and...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Chronic Pain: Living by Faith When Your Body Hurts
$5.20Retail: $6.50Chronic pain is different from other kinds of physical pain because it doesn't stop. It is daily, unrelenting, soul-wearying pain for which there is no end in sight. Can you still experience God's grace and help even in the midst of never ending pain?...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Breaking the Addictive Cycle: Deadly Obsessions or Simple Pleasures?
$5.20Retail: $6.50You are bored or stressed or hurt. Something is hard in life and you want a break. What do you grab for that you hope will protect, soothe, and comfort? Whatever it is—shopping, overeating, drinking, drugs—promises relief, but never delivers...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Social Anxiety: Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin
$5.20Retail: $6.50"I'm just shy." You've worn the label for so long that it has become your identity. A counselor recently described it as social anxiety, but the new label does nothing to ease the pain. You wish you could feel "comfortable in your own skin" but instead,...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Overeating: When Enough Isn't Enough
$5.20Retail: $6.50If we're honest, most of us can remember eating more than we need. More often than we might care to admit, we finish a meal knowing we've had too much. Why do we push the limits of our food consumption? Does God have anything to say about this struggle?...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Help for Your Extreme Mood Swings
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone feels better some days than others, but some people struggle with exaggerated and unrestrained mood swings. These kinds of mood swings have come to be known as mania, manic-depression, or bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is confusing and...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Children and Trauma: Equipping Parents and Caregivers
$5.20Retail: $6.50Children can experience trauma from a variety of experiences, including neglect, physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, death of a loved one, bullying, racial trauma, and more. Trauma occurs when children are exposed to an experience perceived as...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Eating Disorders: The Quest for Thinness
$5.20Retail: $6.50What started as an innocent diet has turned into a monster. You eat too little. You eat too much. You restrict. You binge. Some days you wish you could just forget about food. Can someone like you ever learn to eat normally? Edward T. Welch describes...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Postpartum Depression: Hope for a Hard Season
$5.20Retail: $6.50Many new mothers experience what some call postpartum "baby blues" a short period of feeling sad, irritable, anxious, and overwhelmed. But what happens when those feelings worsen as the newborn weeks go by? What help is there for you when sleepless...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When You Love an Addict: Wisdom and Direction
$5.20Retail: $6.50Loving an addict is incredibly painful. Not only do you have to watch them make the same mistakes over and over again, but along the way they often lie to you, hurt you, and betray you. And yet, against all odds, you still love them and hope and pray...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Healing after Abortion: God's Mercy is for You
$5.20Retail: $6.50The turmoil women experience after having an abortion is sometimes called "post-abortion syndrome." But you don't need a technical term to describe what you are feeling. The guilt, regret, depression, and grief are the honest struggles of a woman who's...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Relief without Cutting: Taking Your Negative Feelings to God
$5.20Retail: $6.50People handle the hard things in life in all different ways. What do you do when you get upset? Cry? Blow-up? Get depressed? Or perhaps, no one notices when you're upset because you find a quiet place and cut yourself. You're looking for relief, but is...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Alzheimer's Disease: Help for Families in Crisis
$5.20Retail: $6.50It starts out as small moments of forgetfulness that can be chalked up to simply getting older. But as time passes and symptoms accumulate, you are forced to face the fact that your loved one has Alzheimer's disease. Now you're wondering how the course...$5.20Retail: $6.50
Christian Mental Health Books for Overcoming Anxiety & Depression
Whether you struggle with sorrow, depression, addiction, loneliness, or grief, Christian mental health books can bring biblical comfort and hope when you walk through a dark season of life. Each booklet will help you get to the heart of your struggle and point you to God’s Word for comfort and encouragement. Short enough to be read in 30 minutes or less, these minibooks, written by trusted biblical counselors with many years of experience, will give you hope and help as you battle depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
Can Reading Christian Psychology Books Help with Anxiety and Depression?
Christian psychology books can be helpful tools for dealing with anxiety, depression, and other mental health struggles, as they can give much-needed perspective and guidance. Full-length books on these topics are best read when you are in a less acute stage of anxiety or depression and have more bandwidth to take in the content. However, New Growth Press’s short but powerful Christian counseling minibooks are designed to be short and easy to read in order to provide hope and help, even when your struggles limit your capacity.
Christian books on anxiety, as well as other mental and physical health struggles, can help you identify sources of distress, connect to Christ in your struggle, and develop effective coping strategies. They can also advise you on how to reach out to supportive members of your church and other faith-based communities for encouragement and help where needed. Ultimately, Christian books on depression and anxiety can help you find peace and hope in times of difficulty.
Our Bestselling Christian Psychology Books
- Overcoming Anxiety: Relief for Worried People by David Powlison
- Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Trusting God When You're Afraid by Jocelyn Wallace
- Freedom from Addiction: Turning from Your Addictive Behavior by Edward T. Welch
- PTSD: Healing for Bad Memories by Timothy S. Lane
- Sexual Addiction: Freedom from Compulsive Behavior by David Powlison