Spiritual Psychotherapy and Mental Health: The Forgiveness Therapy in Achieving Spiritual Well-Being of Drug Addicts with Depression Disorders

Abstract

Emotions involve all the inner feelings experienced by each individual. Such as feelings of disappointment, sadness, anger, and annoyance which are expressions of feelings when someone is not well. This behavior is common and is carried out by everyone in social life. So there is the difficulty for most individuals in controlling themselves from these emotional feelings. And have an impact on the form of feelings of revenge, anti-social until depression. This is because each individual's fluctuating emotions are different. Self-difficulty in giving forgiveness to oneself or others, instead indirectly has damaged one's thinking and affect on spiritual well-being. There are still many people in society today who hate other people and do not forgive others. Even though without realizing it, this act causes hurt feeling in oneself and result in escape by abusing drugs. Therefore, strong negative feelings can even lead to depression. This study aims to (1) describe of forgiveness therapy for drug addicts who have depressive disorders, (2) describe the spiritual wellbeing of drug addicts with depressive disorders. This study used a descriptive qualitative method to explain the study in terms of the impact of forgiveness therapy. To collecting data the study using content analysis approach searching of Scopus, Clarivate, and Google Scholar. The results is found that there are a positive impression for the healing of drug addicts who experienced depression as well as affecting the spiritual well-being of patients. This study can also be applied by yourself with the guidance and support of the family.

Forgiveness Therapy terhadap Kondisi Mental Lanjut Usia

“…Berdasarkan hasil survei yang menunjukkan rentannya lansia mengalami gangguan mental diperlukan sebuah intervensi pencegahan yang diberikan untuk lansia yaitu forgiveness therapy. Forgiveness therapy merupakan salah satu intervensi yang dapat mengubah kepahitan menjadi netralitas, atau bahkan menjadi kenangan dengan kecenderungan positif, dan dengan demikian memungkinkan kepuasan yang lebih besar terhadap kehidupan (Noviyanty et al, 2022;Zichnali et al, 2019). Hasil kajian literatur menunjukkan bahwa ketika kita memaafkan, kita mengubah kepahitan menjadi netralitas, atau bahkan menjadi kenangan dengan kecenderungan positif, dan dengan demikian memungkinkan kepuasan yang lebih besar dengan hidup.…”