Does Struggling with Mental Health Mean You Lack Faith?

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Does Struggling with Mental Health Mean You Lack Faith?

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As more believers open up about emotional health, we have the opportunity to show that the Church is a place for healing—not shame.

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Many believers silently wrestle with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges, wondering if these struggles reflect a weak or wavering faith. In some church circles, there’s still a quiet stigma—that if we really trusted God, we’d never feel overwhelmed, anxious, or broken. But is that true?

The Bible is full of godly men and women who faced deep emotional turmoil—Elijah asked God to take his life, David wept and poured out his soul in the Psalms, and even Jesus sweat drops of blood in anguish. Faith doesn’t always mean peace without struggle. Sometimes it means holding onto hope even when peace feels far away.

Does having a mental health battle mean your faith is lacking?

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Only if being overweight or having heart disease, diabetes or a broken leg.

a mental illness is just that an illness, an unseen illness that is very very common. but unfortunately not understood by ordinary people.

Talk to the mothers in your church and ask about post natal depression. something that is common and ask how did the church support them?