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Mental healing

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"Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved:

for thou art my praise."

 

   The Bible: Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 14   

  

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There are various physical and mental illnesses that affect many people in all parts of the world. Especially in Western industrialized countries, the number of people suffering from mental health problems is steadily increasing. In Germany, it now accounts for almost one in three people, and the trend is rising.

Those affected perceive mental suffering as particularly stressful. It affects not only mental health but also physical health and often impacts all areas of a person's life. Since there is generally little social awareness and sensitivity regarding mental illness, and friends and relatives are often overwhelmed, most of those affected suffer silently and largely unnoticed by those around them. For some people, their sometimes years-long unsuccessful struggle eventually leads to resignation and ultimately a loss of will to live. For some, it ends in suicide....

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While conventional medicine is only inadequately able to explain and treat the causes of many mental illnesses, and other human-developed therapies are of only limited help, the key to lasting mental health lies in understanding the true reasons for the development of these illnesses. These reasons usually stem from people's natural, yet often unfulfilled, desire for love, acceptance, and security. Thus, mental illnesses are in truth merely the result of a much deeper problem. This, in turn, is connected to the fundamental questions of our existence as human beings, in particular the question of who we are, where we come from, and how and for what we live. The search for answers to these questions leads us to God (see: The meaning of life).

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God is the true origin of our existence and the basis for a meaningful and fulfilling life (see: What does faith mean?).

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