Comments on: Do Spiritual People Get Depressed? https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Sun, 24 May 2026 00:45:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-71337 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:45:36 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-71337 In reply to Rosslyn and Steven Osborne.

From one widow to another, I hope you are managing to carry on. We don’t have much choice in the matter.

]]> By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-71336 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:39:29 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-71336 In reply to Malcolm Craig.

You’re right, of course. Some of the things we face in this world are truly horrendous, even if we’re not directly involved. Tests come in all sizes and shapes. We’re doing our best “to change this world into a rose garden…” We’ll still have tests after that, but the world certainly won’t have some of the problems we face today. I take hope in that.

]]> By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-71335 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:34:40 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-71335 In reply to Melanie Black.

I hope things are still going well for you after nearly a decade. It is good to think of our bodies just as carriers for the soul in this world. Also, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tells us to meditate on the next world, not that we can really imagine it, but it is a hopeful promise in the Writings that it’s a far better world that awaits us after this life is over and a great comfort to think about.

]]> By: Iléane Faille https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-39434 Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:48:59 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-39434 How helping! I’m feeling sad and even depressed for a decade and trying to understand. Thank’s a lot! ?

]]> By: Melanie Black https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-20031 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:51:57 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-20031 A very good article! Having suffered with bipolar depression, an organic brain chemistry problem, for many years, I know only too well the terrible suffering of dark moods and feelings of hopelessness. About 5 1/2 years ago God brought me into the Baha’i Faith and I found over the ensuing years an enormous amount of healing and a growing optimism. I still have to take anti-depressants, but the cycles of my moods have decreased incredibly. The power of the writings is truly transforming, as well as the mercy of God. The suffering I went through, I believe, made me ready to accept Baha’u’llah, to learn compassion for others, to be less judgmental, and seek daily the protection of the covenant. Praise God!

]]> By: Saniata Darapiza https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-20021 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:24:14 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-20021 This is a timely and consoling article. Thank you, again.

]]> By: Malcolm Craig https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-20016 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 02:07:18 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-20016 An article which understandably is succinct and a preface to a more detailed discourse examining not just material causes but mental and even spiritual ones too. Reading how “wretched” or “unworthy” we are, so totally dependent on God’s grace and mercy in the Writings , contributes to the desperation this unconfident believer has felt. Seeing children pulled from bombed buildings in Syria – the visible outcome of God’s avenging wrath? – is not my physical suffering but mental and spiritual anguish. What about depression aggravated if not caused by relationships with believer’s and unbelievers alike? I hope I’ve indicated some of the scope of the discussion needed to do justice to this important theme.

]]> By: Malcolm Craig https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-20015 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 01:12:47 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-20015 In reply to FARZIN BARAZANDEH.

Well expressed Farzin! I’ve worn that T-shirt and still wear it from time to time. Its a form of questioning of God’s wisdom and power I guess and I feel guilty thinking that way. Feeling a ‘failure’ or seeing others ‘fail’ doesn’t mean I’m right. “Now I see in a glass darkly, but then face to face” suggests that it’s possibly down to gaining a new perspective which for some – maybe the majority – comes when we leave this material world behind?

]]> By: Karen Pritchard https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-20011 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:59:29 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-20011 Excellent article, Sherry. So often we struggle with problems that are truly spiritual in nature, and we mistakenly treat them with material remedies

]]> By: Rosslyn and Steven Osborne https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-people-get-depressed/#comment-20008 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 05:19:24 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=33215#comment-20008 Thank you so much for this reminder Rebecca, as I certainly needed to hear this today. I have been very ill and I know it was purely due to nerves and consternation with my beloved husbands medical results, being given terminal within weeks. I knew it was shock, fear and confusion all wrapped up in one and my body just couldn’t cope for several days.
Still vomiting after 3 days, I walked out to my favourite tree where my horse lays in the sand, I sat with him as he slept and asked Baha’u’llah to guide me through this and help me make sense of it all.
I have no idea how ‘things’ will work out in the coming weeks, but your post has answered more than you could know. God bless.

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