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Countless Christians, including ratings of saints, have suffered the profound, pervasive sorrow that modern psychiatrists call melancholy. Then, as now, great beliefs and even fervent religious tactics have generally didn't lessen this wearying desolation of the heart and soul. Catholic psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty reviews the effective ways that have been recently devised to cope with this grave and sometimes lethal affliction - ways that are not only constant with the teachings of the Cathedral but even rooted in a lot of those teachings. Extensive medical experience in treating patients with melancholy has shown Dr. Kheriaty that the confessional can't get rid of neuroses, nor can the sofa forgive sin. Curing comes only once we incorporate the legitimate discoveries of modern mindset and pharmacology with religious path and the sacraments, offering particular attention to the knowledge of the Cathedral fathers and the saints. Here, with the specialist help of Dr. Kheriaty, you'll understand how to distinguish melancholy from similar-looking but fundamentally different mental says, such as guilt, sloth, the darkness of sin, and the sublime desolation called the "dark night of the heart and soul" that is, in truth, a privileged religious trial delivered to good souls as a special gift idea from God. You'll come to learn how to identify the many types of melancholy and come to understand the interplay of the often manifold triggers - biological, psychological, behavioral, ethnic, and, yes, moral. Then you'll find out about interesting breakthroughs in pharmacological and other procedures, the benefits and restrictions of psychotherapy, the critical place that religious direction must have in your restoration, and the vital role that Religious expectation can play in travelling out depression.
