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When faith and mental health treatment conflict

I have been taking antidepressants for six months and they help but my pastor says depression is a spiritual battle and I should trust God instead of pills.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are caught between two healing traditions that seem to deny each other's validity.

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“Where Are You with Faith and mental health?”

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