Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a few months before he became the secretary of health and welfare I shared his inspiring conversion storyExpressing his belief in God helped him break his long-standing heroin addiction that began when he was a boy, the year after his father’s tragic murder.
“We grow from pain,” Kennedy told podcast host Sage Steel. “Pain is ultimately a touchstone for mental growth and addicts have a unique opportunity for redemption because they’ve been to hell.”
Kennedy said his faith in God gradually came from the age of 28 after reading the works of famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. Kennedy said Jung reported that after observing tens of thousands of psychiatric patients, he concluded that people who believe in God were faster.
Kennedy’s experience has been supported by numerous studies showing robust ties between faith and hyposubstance addiction, strong mental health, and a lower rate of suicide and depression.
From his powerful position, Kennedy lies in a unique role in sharing how and why we must reform our mental healthcare delivery. It has become overly dependent on drug “reliefs” that often make things worse.
I have experienced this. This was experienced when I was hospitalized twice due to an allergic reaction from a drug administered to me by a health care provider who was unable to properly care for my diagnosed fibromyalgia, anxiety, PTSD, and depression. did.
Rather than understanding and treating the underlying causes of inflammation and pain, Pediatric traumatic abusethey instead hid it with a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs that backed me up and almost killed me. I’m not alone.
The wonders of support for Kennedy’s appointment were plagued by anger and skepticism over the overuse of Western medicine medicines.
Calley Means, healthcare reform activist who supported Kennedy’s appointment I recently posted it on X How the US leads the developed countries of per capita global antidepressant users. We have never taken any more drugs, but we have never had any more suicides or depression.
Almost 50,000 people He died in the US by suicide in 2023– 17 times the number of people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And it’s exactly a year.
This is the highest number ever recorded, the highest percentage since 1941, and the aftershock of the Great Fear pression. Mental health in America is at a critical moment. You need to change this. This includes asking harsh questions about the interaction between faith and mental health care delivery.
For example, journal Reported by the sociology of religion Psychologists are the least religious of professors, with 61% reporting themselves as atheists (50%) or agnostics (11%). Harvard found a professor of psychology (and biologists) were least likely to believe in God among disciplines. vice versa, Gallup discovered that 81% of Americans believe in God.
Therefore, the research led by Harvard Medical School researcher David Rossmarin is a religious and mental health expert and a devout Jew. It has been reported That almost 76% of patients wanted psychotherapy with mental integration.
My most in my own life Effective mental illness treatment and mitigation organizations He was able to blend spiritual and spiritual care from Jews and Christian leaders to heal and restore them through God’s grace and redness.
But the Ross Marine team Found in another study 36% of cognitive behavioral therapy practitioners reported “discomfort” as “some kind of discomfort” when dealing with psychological and religious issues with clients, and 19% never asked about them/rare 71% reported that they did not do so, and that “there is little prior clinical training in this field.” ”
This does not mean that agnostics and atheists are unable to provide solid mental health care. But it also helps explain the reasons for other Harvards Researchers also discovered “The mental needs of patients with severe illnesses are often not addressed in healthcare” and “can be linked to a decline in the quality of life of the patients.”
Kennedy said he is working to transform our country’s health care system, including mental health care. It’s an exciting idea to rethink mental health training, education and delivery and think that we can incorporate the motto of our people.
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