Forgiveness: As Attaining Mental Health among Depressed Patients

Abstract

Forgiveness plays a vital role from the recovery of mental and physical health issues. The main purpose of the study was to determine the importance of male and females' forgiveness in mental health and further find out the correlation between forgiveness and mental health among depressed patients. 120 diagnosed depressed patients randomly approached from Nishtar hospital Multan. Level of Forgiveness was measured through Heartland Forgiveness Scale [1] and mental health of depressed patients was evaluated by Mental Health Inventory [2]. Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) 22 version utilized to get the results. Correlation analysis indicated that forgiveness was positively and strongly correlated with mental health. The presence of forgiveness in depressed patient's life was found to attain mental health. Results revealed that female scored higher on forgiveness and mental health as compare to their male counterparts. Future implications for helping depressed patient's perceive presence of forgiveness in their lives are Forgiveness practice on daily basis is very helpful to increase the mental health and by embracing forgiveness, individuals can also embrace peace, hope, gratitude, happiness and joy these are path that lead to mental health. Keywords: Forgiveness; Mental health; Health; Depressed patients IntroductionThe specific aspect of forgiveness, based on the often can be used for the classification of these definitions. For example some definitions refer to provisions for forgiveness [1,3,4], while others focus on single or special relationship relentlessly motives From the perspective of Foundation for Inner Peace, Jampolsky & Friedman [7][8][9][10][11], forgiveness happens when a person is always emotionally supports processes, complaints, thoughts and beliefs attack on himself and others to collect good, value, the glory, the innocence, of love and of peace in both you and to a different person at the same time also from this point of view is the process of forgiveness is active when a person before an election consciousness/decision awarded and then the process of forgiveness to a higher power/Auto (e.g. the Holy Spirit). During this process, the projections are the property and are freed and peace and love as the goals set. Emotional forgiveness is based on a minimum scope of negative emotions, including but not limited to: resentment, bitterness and enmity and hatred, etc. Consorting to Worthington and his colleagues [12,13] forgiveness works by the shift of unforgiveness or ''pollution' unforgiveness with apologies or positive, pro-social, positive emotions. At other side, Decisional forgiveness is based on beliefs about the future of relations with a transgressor. Worthington & Scherer [14] indicate that emotionally and decisional forgiveness can go hand in hand or in forms diverge interesting. While for example that forgiveness decisional often is able to advance to forgiveness emotionally and facilitate actually, it must always be the case. As Worthington and his colleagues def...

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