#12222 Catholic Answers to Suicide, Guilt, and Mental Health Struggles - Dr. Greg Bottaro
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In one of the most compassionate and powerful episodes of Catholic Answers Live, we take on difficult but crucial questions about mental health, suicide, guilt, and healing from a Catholic perspective.
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Questions Covered:
- 20:16 – What can I do for my son who has Autism and recently tried to take his own life? How can I support him?
- 24:46 – What will it take for mental health to catch up to actually treating people, especially those considering suicide?
- 40:57 – I’m new to the faith and my friend who helped me come to the faith has been struggling mentally so much lately. How can I be a support for him?
- 45:19 – We tend to feel guilt after we sin, but do we get out of the constant dwelling of that guilt?
- 47:48 – Where do you feel the Eucharist fits into mental health and healing?
Transcript
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. |
| 0:33.3 | I am Cy Kellett, your host. |
| 0:34.7 | And as promised, Dr. Greg Bataro is here with us. |
| 0:38.4 | He's a Catholic psychologist. He's the founder of the Catholic Psych Institute and the creator of the Catholic |
| 0:44.0 | psych model of applied personalism. And we'll talk about that a bit with him. Before he was |
| 0:51.2 | married, he was Franciscan friar for four years with Father Benedict Greshel and |
| 0:56.4 | the friars of the renewal. |
| 0:59.2 | And he's now married, and he's got seven kids under 11. |
| 1:02.7 | So Steve Ray was jet lagged, and now we've got Dr. Bittaro, seven kids under 11. |
| 1:07.5 | This is the tiredest show that we have done all year. |
| 1:10.4 | Dr. Greg Mitaro, |
| 1:11.1 | thanks for being here with us. Thanks so much. I'll try to stay awake, but I think you'll keep |
| 1:15.1 | you awake here. It's all tired people today. We've got nothing but tired guests today. |
| 1:20.2 | Fortunately, I slept well last night, and my kids are grown, so I'll bring the energy. |
| 1:25.3 | But let me just ask you a little bit about the Catholic Psych Institute first, and then we'll talk a little bit about... |
| 1:33.3 | I said in the introduction to the show, and I will say it again now, that I think a lot of Catholics are conflicted about mental health professionals, about medications for mental illness, |
| 1:47.1 | because psychology and spirituality are so close. They're right next to each other, |
| 1:54.1 | and sometimes probably overlapping. So people are not sure which is the thing for the priest, which is the thing for the psychologist, which is the thing for the hospital, which is the thing for confession, you know, like, or do I just need to have more faith? |
| 2:09.0 | So I want to talk about all that with you, but maybe you could just start with what the Catholic Psych Institute is. |
| 2:14.3 | Yeah, well, that's a great insight, and it's a really great question to lead off on because they are so close and they do overlap. |
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