Reply To: Orthodox Jews and Psychology

I think you are blurring the lines between mental health and spiritual pursuits. If someone if suffering from depression, anxiety, OCD or any other mental illness, it is completely and entirely irresponsible and dangerous to think that the root of the problem is spiritual.

You go to a rav for halachic and hashkafic advise. You see a doctor when you are sick. Don’t confuse the two.