When you can say what you really are, that's emotional health. Only when you're honest can you work your way back close to God. The concept of emotional health is simple, he said. We need God so bad we can't do life without him. Life is too horribly painful.
Life is too gut-wrenching.
Emotional unhealth is the result of being disconnected from God and from other people. Carlisle said his experience with clinical depression in 1994 and 1996 left him battered and bruised. But I have found a richness in Christ from that brokenness. I'm convinced the way you help others with emotional health is that you become emotionally healthy. If senior adult leaders are going to help produce healthy senior adults, they are going to have to help them work on their relationships with God and others, he said.