Faith in Mental Health

Faith and psychology have different histories. Beginning with Sigmund Freud, most mental health disciplines recognize that faith is a delusion that leads individuals to avoid reality. Although there has been some progress since Freud's age, in the field of mental health, we do not recognize the importance of understanding patient beliefs and the benefits that it can bring to some people. Faith helps individuals and society's identity, morals, and to most people it is the source of support.

More and more results studies continue to document the role of beliefs in mental health. Harold König, a psychiatrist and researcher, reviewed 1000 studies (1878 - 1999) on religious beliefs, relationships between health and mental health, and most studies have positive correlations I showed it. Koenig's 2011 text, spirituality and health research shows the same positive relationship - true belief improves physical and mental well-being. Number of studies in the past 10 years - 2 thousand people!

There were many attempts to establish a scientific relationship between faith and mental health. Some of them returned results that seemed to confirm this relationship. In general, research and scientific commentary shows that people have more religious beliefs (beliefs) that there is hope that their positive impact on mental health will be greater. In the 2002 meta-analysis assessment, researchers studied over 147 independent studies challenging over 98,000 subjects. They try to determine whether a religious belief in one person has any effect on depression or depressive symptoms. Their final conclusion shows that the relationship between them is small, but promising. The more religious beliefs, the less melancholate symptoms they experience. In addition, they found that this inverse relationship between religious symptoms and depressive symptoms could be stronger during the period of high stress. Buffer effect

The second part - American beliefs and mental health explore the relationship between mental health and religion in the United States today, depending on the individual beliefs, religion judges whether it is good or bad for that person's mental health To do. For example, those who provide purpose consciousness about religion, give phone calls about life, or give confidence about heaven are often less susceptible to mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. Same psychosis

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