depression no more

current research suggests, that religion is a fundamental necessity for mental health, contrary to the atheist's view that it is a mental illness. this "mental illness" perspective is the brainchild of the 19th century atheist thinker Freud, but since then he has been comprehensively refuted. the american author Patrick Glynn sums it up:

"Yet, the last quarter of the twentieth century has not been kind to the psychoanalytic vision. Most significant has been the exposure of Freud's views of religion (not to mention a host of other matters) as entirely fallacious. Ironically enough, scientific research in psychology over the past twenty-five years has demonstrated that, far from being a neurosis or source of neuroses as Freud and his disciples claimed, religious belief is one of the most consistent correlates of overall mental health and happiness. Study after study has shown a powerful relationship between religious belief and practice, on the one hand, and healthy behaviors with regard to such problems as suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, depression, even, perhaps surprisingly, levels of sexual satisfaction in marriage, on the other. In short, the empirical data run exactly contrary to the supposedly 'scientific' consensus of the psychotherapeutic profession."
[Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World]

the fact that those who fail to abide by religious moral values experience "stress" is revealed by Allah in the Qur'an:

"But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his life will be a dark and narrow one..."
[QS Ta-Ha 124]

this "dark and narrow" life, or stress/depression, to give it the current name, is the outcome of non-believers' failure to abide by the moral values imparted by faith. today, doctors maintain that a calm and self-assured composure are essential for protection from the effects of stress. a calm and peaceful disposition is only possible by living according to the Qur'an. indeed, it has been revealed in many verses of the Qur'an that Allah imparts "serenity" upon the believers [QS at-Taubah 26, al-Fath 4]. our Lord's promise to the faithful has been revealed as follows:

Anyone who acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, We will give them a good life and We will recompense them according to the best of what they did.
[QS an-Nahl 97]