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When mental health treatment affects spiritual receptivity

My depression medication has made me feel emotionally numb and the Psalms that used to move me to tears now feel like I'm reading a grocery list.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Medical intervention is interfering with emotional pathways to spiritual experience.

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