Scientific research from the Canadian Mental Health Association shows that the mentally ill do better when they are religious.
cmha.bc.ca/files/12.pdf
Deeply devout religious people also have more self-control.
nytimes.com/2008/12/30/science/30tier.html?_r=2&em. Prayer and meditation a lot of activity in two parts of the brain that are important for self-regulation and control of attention and emotion. And it’s not enough to just be
spiritual, according to the study one has to
truly believe.
** 98. ** The saintly Blanche of Castille, Queen of France, was deeply grieved because twelve years after her marriage she was still childless. When St. Dominic went to see her he advised her to say the Rosary every day to ask God for the grace of motherhood, and she faithfully carried out his advice. In the year 1213 she gave birth to her eldest child, who was called Philip. But when the child died in infancy, the Queen sought our Lady’s help more than ever, and had a large number of rosaries given out to all members of the court and to people in several towns in the Kingdom, asking them to pray to God for a blessing which this time would be complete. This was granted to her, for in 1215 St. Louis was born, the prince who was to become the glory of France and the model of Christian kings.
From: **Secret of the Rosary **
montfort.org.uk/Writings/Rosary.html
If you are
out of mortal sin and striving to follow Christ’s perfect will, and you regularly pray to Christ, particularly the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, and Litany of Humility, who knows what might happen.
I strongly suspect that when one is in mortal sin, Christ is most concerned with you seeking forgiveness through the Sacrament of Reconciliation and coming back into your heart.
#1181 When I was close to the Lord, He said to me, Why are you afraid to begin the work which I have commanded you to carry out? I answered, Why do you leave me on my own at such times, Jesus, and why do I not feel your presence? **My daughter, even though you do not perceive Me in the most secret depths of your heart, you still cannot say that I am not there. I only remove from you the awareness of my presence, and that should not be an obstacle to the carrying out of My will. I do this to achieve unfathomable ends, which you will know later on.
My daughter, know without a doubt, that only mortal sin drives me out of a soul and nothing else!**
Diary of St. Maria Faustina:
Divine Mercy in My Soul saint-faustina.com/Diary/DMIMS24.shtml
Divine Mercy Chaplet ewtn.com/Devotionals/mercy/dmmap.htm
Litany of Humility ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/humility.htm
Most Holy Rosary rosary-center.org/rosary.htm
Excerpt from
Vie par elle-meme by St. Margaret Mary Aloque, to whom was revealed the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, * “The blessed virgin has always taken great care of me. I had recourse to her in all my necessities and she has preserved me from great dangers. I did not dare address myself to her divine son, but only to her and I often presented her with the little crown of the rosary, which I said on my bare knees, or genuflecting and kissing the ground at every Ave Maria.” *
episcopalacademy.org/drum/trea/TREA5-06/Wrighttrea06a.pdf
“The one who prays a lot saves himself. The one who prays little is in danger. The one who does not pray loses his soul.” St. Padre Pio
*“He showed me many religious souls who, because of some disunity with their superiors had been deprived of the help of the Holy Virgin, the saints and the visitation of their guardian angels and plunged in the horrible flames of Purgatory.” * I forget where this quote is from - I think the writings of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Sister Lucy of Fatima. *“She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem; no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all, spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world, or of the religious communities, or even of the life of peoples and nations, that cannot be solved by the Rosary.” *
P.S. Maybe Jesus
through Mary solves
some problems by healing miracles and perhaps,
for others, Christ bestows greater blessings that may only be fully appreciated in Heaven and inner peace.
Suffering and Holiness
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
If so, how? 
or 
. Why? Because we were not created to live for ourselves or even this life. We were made for God, and our life should revolve around His greater glory. Stop thinking about yourself and the (excuse the force of words) insignificancy of your life in itself and but God in the center. Think about how this world is offending God and how you want nothing to do with it, how you want to strive for sanctity to repair and take revenge for the sins.
I gave all of my tears and depression and mania and all of my “craziness” up to God and eventually I started asking for him to heal me.
