Lifeway Research: 26% of Pastors say They’ve ‘Personally’ Struggled with Mental iIIness
A quarter of protestant pastors in the United States say that they’ve ‘personally struggled with mental illness” according to a new Lifeway Research study designed to ‘explore U.S. Protestant pastors’ experiences with mental illness and how well their churches are equipped to respond to those who need help.”
They further note that 54% of pastors have said “they have known at least one church member who has been diagnosed with a severe mental illness such as clinical depression, bipolar or schizophrenia” but that the number of pastors with the most exposure to this tend to skew younger. Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research explains:
There is a healthy generational shift occurring as younger and middle-aged pastors are much more likely to have encountered people in church with severe mental illness than the oldest pastors. However, it is not clear whether the presence of those with difficult mental illnesses is increasing among church members or if they have simply felt more comfortable sharing their diagnosis with younger pastors.”
Further, they report “Twenty-six percent of U.S. Protestant pastors say they have personally struggled with some type of mental illness, including 17% who say it was diagnosed and 9% who say they experienced it but were never diagnosed. Three-quarters (74%) say they’ve never dealt with a mental illness.”
The study is based on interviewing 1000 Protestant pastors, but they do not break down the information by denomination, or compare results from orthodox Christians vs mainline heretics.
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