St. John of the Cross famously wrote the poem the "Dark Night of the Soul," as a sort of existential spiritual crisis in which spiritual despair and God's absence pervades your whole sense of being. There is an intense sense of a loss of meaning and purpose in one's life, along with feeling abandoned by God. For me personally it feels like I am knocking on a door and asking God to open it, but there is just no one on the other side. As someone who suffers from depression a

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