My husband and I both struggle with depression and we've been attending church together for years, but lately I feel like we're performing faith for each other instead of actually finding healing there, and I don't know how to tell him that the prayers and community support feel empty when my brain won't let me believe God cares. We keep saying we're 'trusting God's plan' but we're both just getting sicker and I think we're afraid to admit that faith isn't fixing our mental health the way we thought it would.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are using religious practice to mask rather than integrate their psychological healing, creating a shared spiritual bypass that prevents authentic intimacy and recovery.
“Where Are You with Faith and mental health?”
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