What to do if you enter spiritual realm wrongly
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Ability to take responsibility for one's own actions, flexibility, high frustration tolerance, acceptance of uncertainty, involvement in activities of social interest, courage to take risks, serenity to accept the things which we cannot change, courage to change the things which we can change, the wisdom to know the difference between the above, acceptance of handicaps, tempered self-control, harmonious relationships to self, others, including Nature and God, are the essential features of mental health. Mental health has two dimensions-absence of mental illness and presence of a well-adjusted personality that contributes effectively to the life of the community. SPIRITUAL DIMENSION IS IMPORTANT IN MENTAL HEALTH This paper makes an attempt to bring out the importance of spirituality in mental health.
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Only very few psychiatrists make use of religion and spirituality in the therapeutic situation. Religion does not have a place in most of the psychiatry text books. Even so the importance of religion and spirituality are not sufficiently recognized by the psychiatric community. I understand that the Indian Psychiatric Society has formed a task force on spirituality and mental health which is urging the Medical council of India to include taking the spiritual history as part of psychiatric evaluation. DSM4, V 62.89 includes three categories-normal religious and spiritual experiences religious and spiritual problems leading to mental disturbances and mental disturbances with a religious and spiritual context. proposed that the diagnostic entities of religious and psychospiritual problems should be incorporated in DSM4 which has been accepted. The World Psychiatric Association recently established a section on psychiatry and religion. The American College of Graduate Medical Education mandates in its special requirements for residency training in Psychiatry, that all programs must provide training in religious and spiritual factors that can influence mental health. The Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, has a special group on Psychiatry and Spirituality. As John Turbott puts it, rapprochement between religion and psychiatry is essential for psychiatric practice to be effective. The importance of spirituality in mental health is now widely accepted. Many psychiatrists now believe that religion and spirituality are important in the life of their patients. But recent research reports strongly suggest that to many patients, religion and spirituality are resources that help them to cope with the stresses in life, including those of their illness. DSM3 portrayed religion negatively by suggesting that religious and spiritual experiences are examples of psychopathology. Jean Charcot and Sigmund Freud linked religion with neurosis. Religion was considered as a symptom of mental illness. Religious beliefs and practices have long been thought to have a pathological basis, and psychiatrists over a century have understood them in this light. All along, the majority position of Psychiatry has been that Psychiatry has nothing to do with religion and spirituality.