Thy Deepest Distress: Anxiety and Depression in the Christian Life

Hope in the Shadows: A Christian Guide to Anxiety and Depression

Are you or someone you love struggling with anxiety or depression and searching for answers that go deeper than quick fixes or empty platitudes? Thy Deepest Distress: Anxiety and Depression in the Christian Life by Aaron Garriott is a compassionate, biblically rich guide for Christians facing the storms of mental anguish.

This book stands out for its pastoral warmth, theological depth, and practical wisdom. Garriott weaves together personal experience, historical insight, and timeless truths from Scripture to show that anxiety and depression are not signs of weak faith, but part of the complex reality of living in a fallen world. Drawing from the lives of Christian giants like John Bunyan, Martin Luther, John Owen, William Cowper, and Charles Spurgeon—each of whom battled their own “dark nights of the soul”—Garriott demonstrates that even the greatest saints have walked this difficult path.

Rather than promising a cure, Thy Deepest Distress offers hope, perspective, and tools for living faithfully amid suffering. Readers will discover how God’s providence, Christ’s sympathy, and the hope of future glory can transform even the deepest distress into an opportunity for spiritual growth and deeper communion with God. With practical appendices on prayer and daily practices, this book is an invaluable companion for anyone seeking light in the darkness.

160 pages

Here the tried and tested counsel of biblical teaching on God and his providence, and Christ and his presence is coupled with the multi-valent medicine of the gospel and the insights of common grace into the disorders that afflict our human nature. 

Sinclair B. Ferguson
Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi

Reformed in perspective, pastoral in tone, and practical in application, this book is well worth your time—whether you are struggling with anxiety and/or depression yourself or want to help someone who is.

Joel R. Beeke
Chancellor, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan