Why You’re Still Sad After 10 Sessions | Right Response Ministries
We’re witnessing the rise of a new priesthood—but they wear cardigans instead of cassocks, quote Brené Brown instead of the Bible, and offer diagnoses where there used to be absolution. For millions, these therapists have become the final authority on the soul.
In just one generation, we’ve gone from “God save a wretch like me” to “my therapist says.” Self-care and self-love have replaced self-denial and love for God—and yet depression, anxiety, and suicide rates continue to climb. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults is in therapy. Over 40 million are diagnosed with anxiety. Even children are taught to see themselves as mentally ill.
But the real crisis? The church is now copying the world’s prescriptions—outsourcing soul care to secular professionals who deny the soul even exists.
Historically, the church called this affliction melancholy—a burden of the body, yes, but also a trial of the conscience and a grief of the soul. The Puritans didn’t dismiss this pain, but they didn’t call it neutral either. They traced it back to disordered loves, guilty consciences, and spiritual darkness—and pointed people to Christ, not a couch.
In this episode, Right Response Ministries confront the hard questions:
✨What if our therapeutic age isn’t a solution to suffering, but a refusal to see it rightly?
✨What if feelings aren’t enemies, but signposts?
✨And what if the Church still holds the cure—not in padded offices, but in Word, sacrament, and the communion of saints?
