Although it is often believed that mental depression is a disease and can be cured materially by, for instance, applying electric shocks to the brain or administering drugs, there is a spiritually scientific answer.
Whether one is seventeen, trying to establish his identity, or seventy, endeavoring to maintain a satisfying place in society, his happiness is promoted by consciously establishing a spiritually based sense of worth.
Some prisons have bars and walls; others, keeping mankind in bondage, are poverty, hatred, drug addiction, and many other conditions seemingly beyond control, such as chronic illness.