The Catholic Therapist - Dealing with Anxiety as a Catholic 

I appreciate this video! We need a Catholic voice on mental health! I’m so tired of being told to do yoga and meditate (on nothing).

My biggest struggle is controlling the physiological responses I get when I get anxious. The deep shaking. The chills. The fuzzy vision. The cloudy mind. It is all new to me and horrible.

Fear of the unknown and the uncertainty of my life situation. This creates my anxiety. It helps to be in the moment and the greatest help is the Rosary focusing on the words of the prayers. It’s important to give the Anxiety to God over and over.

As a teen struggling with depression, THANK YOU!! This was so helpful!! ❤🙏🏻

Tremendous video! As a fellow catholic, I feel like prayer and speaking to people that are close to us is a brilliant recipe for combatting anxiety and stress.

I have General Anxiety Disorder. It's worst when it fuels scruplosity

As a Catholic therapist, you need to be directing people to the spiritual/demonic nature of many anxieties. This was hugely addressed by early church fathers (see Evagrius) but has been mostly disregarded by modernists in church today. Much like the church downplays satan, hell, etc. Huge need for therapists (and priests) who understand this. God bless.

This was exactly what I needed to hear today as I sit in adoration Thank you and God bless.

I just diagnosed with depression and anxiety around the first week of September. I have gotten better but I said something that has kept me down for a while. After I told my parents I felt so much lighter. I got reassurance that I was talking the right steps to overcoming anxiety. Thanks God bless you

I also have struggled with Anxiety and bad thoughts also. I would ask God in adoration to heal me to send me a mystic or a spiritual advisor, I felt I had no one to turn to and open up I could not tell no one what I was feeling. I thought that’s it am cookoo I have lost it. But one day in adoration when I was asking for this things I long for, all a sudden in my mind a thought came in saying to me why you search for other things ,I am here . And so I asked Jesus if your will is for me to carry this cross I offer it for the conversion of sinners and for those who suffer with this mental issues. St Therese of Avila wrote that “la mente es la loca de la casa” meaning that the Mind is the crazy women of the house. Anxieties attack us by the mind and we suffer because they don’t come from the heart. So I ran to the sacraments of the church and prayed my Rosary and ask Our Mother Mary to help me I consecrated my self to Jesus threw Mary. I have seen a great Change the shortness of breath and uncontrollable anxiety I would get I would giggle and remind myself that Jesus is with me and he loves me and would say to the attack bring it you ain’t got nothing on me Christ is with me and those attacks left never came back and if they come back I have Christ with me for I eat his body and drink his blood . Paul writes in his letters take your thoughts captive in Christ Jesus. We must trust in God and read Holy scripture, and look into the live of the saints. God bless all who read this.

I want a friend like this guy.

God bless you brother in Christ Jesus!

As of today, this is your most viewed video, so I'm commenting for the algorithm lol. Love you dude!!

Thank you for a Catholic approach to healing.

I believe God can heal you, if you continuously ask him to.

You are a very faithful person and know you will help many , God Bless yoiu

many thanks for your advice, will take steps to get help, God Bless, Declan O'Doherty

I honestly thank God I found your channel!! I really needed help with my youth club activities and your content is just perfect for that. God bless you, keep up the hard work.

Thank you for the advice - I really needed this

Thanks for your sharing.

Loved this, thanks! keep it up :)

Thank you! So true. I am afraid to take action. God bless.

Great commentary and very uplifting!

Thank you for this video. I have anxiety, DID and bipolar disorder. It feels like I don't have very much control over myself.

Thank you for your advice. God bless you

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Thank you and God bless🙏

Hi. Thanks for your work. God bless you.

Thank you

This advise will help many people that I know

Thank you dear brother in Christ😊

Thank you & God bless you

God bless all of us who seek knowledge,

We ARE broken. We are ALL broken.

THERE'S NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD!!!! "JESUS I TRUST IN YOU" BELIEVE THAT YOU/I CAN BE BE LIBERATED AND BE HEALED!!! ANXIETY, STRESS ETC. DOES NOT COME FROM OUR LORD, GOD! IT COMES FROM THE ENEMY! SO REJECT ALL THAT NEGATIVITY, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND THROW IT TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL WHERE IT TRULY BELONGING! AMEN!

It's 6 June 2024. I'm subscribing.

Knowing these things really helps you deal with them.

Please pray for my health 🙏🙏 Maria Araiza thank you

Guys! Look into Dr Claire Weekes. Her take on anxiety is amazing. God allowed her to be blessed with knowledge and gave her the power to help others!

IN THE NAME OF JESUS, BEGONE EVIL SPIRIT OF FEAR AND ANXIETY AND GOOOO TO THE FOOT OF THE CROSS TO BE JUDGED BY THE LORD!

Some fears and worries can’t be healed, live long enough and you’ll see it. This is just a sad reality in the same vein as suffering.

Yeah well, talking to my parents is out...... my mom would just say I'm overreacting and dad would just tell me to not worry about stuff. I'd rather talk to a priest.

I have lived with anxiety, depression, OCD, ect. from as far back as I can remember and I will be 60 next month! I have had therapy, prayed about it, said Rosary after Rosary and have been on medications for years!! STILL having anxiety - it's a little better, probably due to the medication, but it's still there!! I've about given up on my Catholic Faith for any help!

I’m scared and anxious. People keep saying it’s the end and my air is getting sucked out of my body and my body feels heavy. I’m scared. I want to have faith that we will make it through safely. That all of this will be over soon. I’ve always been scared of death...mostly scared of being alone. I read that bad things happen so good can come from it and I hope that’s happening. I want to tell myself that people who are saying that are just being negative. I’m so scared and I want to have faith

We're not defined by our anxiety.

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What is the church's position on taking medication for OCD? Can you do a video clearing up stigmas behind that?

Go to st Joseph. God bless.

I have my first appointment with the doctor tomorrow unfortunately this psychiatrist is not Catholic which is very hard because being in sanctifying Grace I need somebody to understand the way my mind thinks Catholic wise anyway. My husband wanted to move rural I told him I am not a isolation type person but because times were getting hard he asked me to move far out off grid no electricity no running water and we just got a puppy about a year ago the isolation is beginning to kill me like I'm having panic attacks up here all the time they seem to be alleviated when I go to town I've been praying about it it's my husband's will that we are here is God's will that I'm here and obeying my husband but I'm not going to lie to you I'm having a difficult time soon I will be seeing a friend on a regular basis to talk he is my Catholic friend and he works with tapping don't know if you ever heard of it but he's very good thank you for your video

I found it disturbing when you said some saints consider one of the greatest sins is worrying and not trusting in God. You have to realize that I and others do not "indulge" anxiety, depression, worry and panic, but that we suffer from these conditions, but are still following Jesus Christ regardless of our weaknesses. To me, that statement was not only unsubstantiated, but troubling since it sparked another problem: scrupulosity. I wish I hadn't come to your video hoping something would make me feel better.

Thanks. Could you explain whether brain spotting therapy is approved by the Church?

God comes to the pure heart! You have to fast 40 days, meditation, and habit changes.

Is there a passage in the Bible for healing or dealing with mental health?

Read the book, understand that the book talks about many situations. Know what, where, when, why, and how . Many children are not from God but anger!

Thank you for this video. Are u available on whats app. I would like your advice and suggestion.

What’s your view on antidepressants? I was prescribed the meds. It took me a while to take the first pill, 3 weeks in and I still can’t fully accept the fact that I need to take them 😔 I feel somehow guilty. It’s probably my anxiety talking.

So how does one come to a Catholic therapist when they don't take insurance! ??!

Can you please tell me how I can have a consultation with you?

I'm going to be honest. I'm a 16 years old, who has a kind of messy family and right now a lot of stuff has happened even worse that what is "normal" for us and I can feel myself pulling apart from God. I don't want to, I really, really don't want to because for many years He had been the only reason I haven't done many irreversible bad things, and has been my only place of comfort and the only one I've talked to about many things. But for the last few months things had been really bad in here, plus the pandemic and all that stuff, and I don't know what is wrong but I can't feel that closeness to him anymore and it is awful. I believe I may have anxiety or depression or maybe even both, but I haven't been diagnosed and I can't bring myself to tell my parents "Hey, yes its me your daughter who is always giggling, and smiling, and acting like a gooffball. Yes, well you see: I feel really sad inside and sometimes I even feel like hurting myself". I can't do it, I'm just so afriad on how they'll react. I still believe in God, I still see him as a loving and caring father, I still consider myself Catholic, but the fact that in the middle of all this mess it feels as also Him had been pulled apart from me (even if He didn't) it makes me feel even more hopeless. Thank you for making these videos really, sorry that I wrote that much but I really needed to let a bit of all of this out.

Anger, Panic attack, Anxiety, Insomnia can be treated with Zolof.

Are you accepting clients for therapy right now?

Dealling. With. Techs.....

I am sorry to say that. It is true that talking helps to ease the anxiety. I have always been told to ask for help. However, in reality, nobody cares. What are you supposed to do when people avoid you because you are anxious? When all they can do is tell you off for being anxious? When you are devout and try to love God and do right but your are pointed out from the ambo as an example of how not to be because happy people are attractive and thus can share the Gospel and you are anxious and that is why people cannot put up with you? When priests reject you and tell you to do therapy and you do, and still the therapist basically tells you to do things that do not help and are not christian? You go to the psychiatrist and they tell you to go back to the priest!?When all you can face is rejection? When you have no friend on Earth? And all you want is to follow Jesus and you finally understand that He wants you to bear this anxiety like rhe cross and still be faithful to the end? By the way, I am in the spectrum. I know I will never have the so called social skills. I am always honest and God knows how much I have been obedient. I always want to run away from the place and still have to stay and put up with the rejection. It is a constant torture only God knows.

You have to teach a man to fish rather than give him a fish.

God sent a man of holiness telling me the church does not have to repair my car jesus I love u

Catholic church is about using reason to make our lives better.