How Does Religion Affect Mental Health

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Religion has always been a topic about debate whether is it truly good for you to belief in. Many people seem to forget can it be good not only for the people around you, but for your mental health as well? Religion and psychology have a huge significant to each other as how they lead to outcomes that are at times positive, and at other times negative.

Religion plays such a huge role in many people’s lives, that many may forget that it does affect our mental health whether you like it or not. Generally speaking any type of interaction can have some type of reaction to your mental health. Mental health has been in quite a lot of debates as of late. The world we live in today is starting to realize that having a strong and healthy mental state

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