Mental healing
"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)
There are various physical and mental illnesses in the world that affect a large number of people in all parts of the world. The number of people suffering from psychological problems is constantly increasing, particularly in western industrialized countries. In Germany it is now almost one in three; and the trend is increasing.
Psychological suffering is perceived as particularly stressful by those affected. They affect both mental and physical health and often affect all areas of people's lives. Since there is generally little social education and sensitivity in connection with mental illnesses and friends and relatives are often overwhelmed, most of those affected suffer in silence and largely unnoticed by those around them. For many people, their unsuccessful struggles, some of which last for years, eventually lead to resignation and ultimately to a loss of courage to live. For quite a few of them they end in suicide....
While conventional medicine can only inadequately explain and treat the causes of many mental disorders and other therapeutic methods devised by humans only help to a limited extent, the key to long-term health of the soul and psyche is to identify the real reasons for the development of these illnesses understand (see: The way to redemption).
Often it is primarily spiritual causes that lead to the development of mental illnesses. As a rule, all psychological disorders hide people's natural, yet often unfulfilled, desire for love, acceptance and security.
In reality, mental illnesses are just the consequences of a much deeper problem. This problem is related to the fundamental questions of our existence as humans, especially who we are, where we come from and how we live. The search for the answer to these questions inevitably leads us to God (see: Who is God?).
God is the true origin of our existence and the basis for a meaningful and fulfilling life (see: What does faith mean?).