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Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression?
Sikhism is a relatively young religion, with Guru Granth Sahib as its key religious text. This text describes emotions in everyday life, such as happiness, sadness, anger, hatred, and also more serious mental health issues such as depression and psychosis. There are references to the causation of th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23858254 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.105531 |
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author | Kalra, Gurvinder Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhugra, Dinesh |
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description | Sikhism is a relatively young religion, with Guru Granth Sahib as its key religious text. This text describes emotions in everyday life, such as happiness, sadness, anger, hatred, and also more serious mental health issues such as depression and psychosis. There are references to the causation of these emotional disturbances and also ways to get out of them. We studied both the Gurumukhi version and the English translation of the Guru Granth Sahib to understand what it had to say about depression, its henomenology, and religious prescriptions for recovery. We discuss these descriptions in this paper and understand its meaning within the context of clinical depression. Such knowledge is important as explicit descriptions about depression and sadness can help encourage culturally appropriate assessment and treatment, as well as promote public health through education. |
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spelling | pubmed-37056822013-07-15 Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression? Kalra, Gurvinder Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhugra, Dinesh Indian J Psychiatry Review Article Sikhism is a relatively young religion, with Guru Granth Sahib as its key religious text. This text describes emotions in everyday life, such as happiness, sadness, anger, hatred, and also more serious mental health issues such as depression and psychosis. There are references to the causation of these emotional disturbances and also ways to get out of them. We studied both the Gurumukhi version and the English translation of the Guru Granth Sahib to understand what it had to say about depression, its henomenology, and religious prescriptions for recovery. We discuss these descriptions in this paper and understand its meaning within the context of clinical depression. Such knowledge is important as explicit descriptions about depression and sadness can help encourage culturally appropriate assessment and treatment, as well as promote public health through education. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3705682/ /pubmed/23858254 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.105531 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Kalra, Gurvinder Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhugra, Dinesh Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression? |
title | Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression? |
title_full | Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression? |
title_fullStr | Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression? |
title_full_unstemmed | Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression? |
title_short | Does Guru Granth Sahib describe depression? |
title_sort | does guru granth sahib describe depression? |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23858254 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.105531 |
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