I think depressives are more religious than others because if we did not believe in fate or that the bad things that happen to us happen for a reason,we’d be even more depressed. The belief that there is a God watching over us is very comforting to depressives.
Wendy Aron, author of Hide & Seek: How I Laughed at Depression, Conquered My Fears and Found Happiness

But of course, there are many of us who fret that these things are happening to us for a BAD reason, as a punishment from an angry G-d. Not so comforting.
That said, an interesting study.

Larry: One of my most valuable learning experiences growing from therapy is learning to recognize and accept the difference between blame and accountability. The lesson is this: Blame implies intent whereas accountability only denotes an acceptance of responsibility for our actions and their consequences. Thus, I am accountable for my stroke, but not to blame since I clearly didn’t intend to bring on a stroke by my poor lifestyle choices. This differentiation has freed me in more ways than I can express. I’ve embraced the belief that even an angry G-d doesn’t bring negatives into our lives; He saves punishment until Judgment Day, and even then doesn’t count those transgressions for which we’ve asked and accepted forgiveness.Think about it; if G-d spent all of His time punishing us for our sins, how would He have time for anything ELSE, such as listening to and answering prayers?

((((Larry))) I hear you…I had to opposite message growing up…all is well…God is love etc etc…and I still whip out the little girl magical thinking weapon on myself when I am unsure..and sleepless as of late…
My son thought, briefly I hope…. in very black and white adolescent terms, that last springs stomach stuff was because of clothes that he’d been wearing. (a punishment, I forget the details, a Rolling Stones tshirt or some such)…. I was crushed…my WORST parenting fear manifested in lysol…
“I will NEVER be the kind of parent that manipulates with punishing God crap…NEVER.”
And we don’t…and won’t ever…but…nor are we raising him under a rock.
sigh
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T – looking forward to coming back to the article and reading closely ~ K

Well, in my “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry G-d” cosmology, G-d wouldn’t need to have time for listening and answering prayers because He’d be, well, too busy doling out punishments “for our own good.”
I’m not saying I BELIEVE this; but it’s a **very** tempting theological construct with depression, at least as much if not more so, IMO, then the opposite idea ennunciated above in the first comment.

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I was reading these comments.
The problem is that 99% people are not aware of Astropsychology.
Last 2000 years we got Age of Pisces-age of deception…
Scientists and doctors are not aware of Astropsychology, people who are depresset have allot of influence of South node of the Moon in Pisces and Mercury etc.
God give us Stars but also he is saying we are above the Stars!
What that means: if we were born in the moment that the planets were positioned in a certain way and that what it makes us who we are, it mean that if we Do have knowledge in Astropsychology we are able to work on our character in order to improve it…..