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See also: [[Atheism and depression]] and [[Atheism and self-esteem]]
See also: [[Atheism and depression]] and [[Atheism and self-esteem]]
''The Telegraph'' reported: "Patients with a strong “intrinsic faith” (a deep personal belief, not just a social inclination to go to a place of worship) recover 70 per cent faster from depression than those who are not deeply religious."<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10914137/What-God-does-to-your-brain.html What God does to your brain] by Julia Llewellyn Smith. ''The Telegraph'', 20 Jun 2014</ref>
Concerning [[atheism and depression]], a University of Michigan study involving 19,775 individuals found that [[religion|religious]] people are less likely than [[atheism|atheists]] to suffer [[depression]] when they are lonely.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6136603/Lonely-religious-people-depressed-God-friend.html Lonely religious people are less depressed than atheists because they see God as a friend replacement, study finds], ''Daily Mail'', 2018</ref> See also: [[Atheism and suicide]]
There are preliminary studies indicating that individuals who reject [[Christianity]] in Western cultures have lower self-esteem than the Christian population.<ref>[http://atheistwatch.blogspot.com/2010/10/rejection-of-christianity-and-self.html Rejection of atheism and self-esteem]</ref><ref>[http://atheistwatch.blogspot.com/2010/10/atheists-and-self-esteem-part-2.html Atheism and self-esteem - part 2]</ref> There are also studies indicating that lower self-esteem is associated with suicidality.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21190929</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20602903</ref>
Atheists have [[Atheism and suicide|higher rates of suicide than the general population.]]<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20602903</ref><ref>http://www.adherents.com/misc/religion_suicide.html</ref><ref>http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.161.12.2303</ref> At the same time, there is a significant portion of the atheist population who suffer from excess self-esteem/[[pride]] issues (see: [[Atheism and arrogance]]).
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== See also ==