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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Mental Illness: Seek God then seek people


My advice to you (and I am not a medical professional, just someone who has benefited from them) if you are having difficulties, is to seek God first and then go where He leads you.

Often, that will be into the hands of good people who can help you.

That is what I found out while pursuing a call to the priesthood way back when I was a young man.


I've always had a strong belief in God, even as a young child. He never disappoints us. He is a Good Father to us.



When in that seminary I discovered (no, I wasn't called to be a priest after all), that by devoting myself to doing His will for me, I found a great relief to the mental anguish and suffering that I was enduring since adolescence, long before I became a Catholic.


He led me to seek help for that pain within the mental health healing community. Medicine was my ultimate savior (small "s"). I know who my real Savior is, Jesus Christ.


Even Christ used physical, tangible things and objects to heal and forgive sins. This is a sacramental way of looking at life.


In any case, if you are experiencing difficulties. Seek God, seek help. He will lead you.

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