Therapy in combination with the right medication has shown higher effectiveness long term than each alone. > In fact, psychotherapy was invented in competition

Therapy in combination with the right medication has shown higher effectiveness long term than each alone. > In fact, psychotherapy was invented in competition to, or perhaps as a replacement for, auricular confessions to a Catholic (or Orthodox) priest. Thank you for showing me a positive aspect of Catholicism. Their 7 deadly sins are just symptoms of people trying to numb their emotional pain for me. Shame makes people feel worse though. The threat of eternal punishment in an imaginary hell is a lousy deterrent to bad behaviour. The words ascribed to Jesus, whos' story was written down 40 years after his "death" for the first time, work well though. Forgiveness works, the person that practices it benefits the most. You can do it for purely selfish reasons, to stop burning your energy being angry at people. Even if you practice Satanism after Anton LaVey, the first religion without a god.