Questions to consider:
1. Are you able to describe your strengths and weaknesses ...accurately?
2. Are you pessimist, realist, or optimist?
3. How are you affected by the wide-spread lonliness of our culture?
4. Area you at the present time suffering the "common cold" of mental health, that is, depression?
5. How are you growing in mental and emotional health? By the school of "hard knocks" or through intentional assistance from a trained counselor?
Some Resources:
Burnout in Ministry, Brooks R. Falkner
Clergy Renewal: The Alban Guide to Sabbatical Planning, A. Richard Bullock and Richard J. Bruesehoff
Learned Optimism, Martin E. P. Seligman
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick
Pastoral Stress: Sources of Tension, Resources for Transformation, Anthony G. Pappas
Reg Mills on Church Ministry for Mental Health (MP4 Streaming Video)
The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck
Self Esteem, McKay and Fanning
Signs and Symptoms of Depression (NIMH web site)
Walking Through the Valley: Understanding and Emerging from Clergy Depression, Robert L. Randall