{"id":150732,"date":"2025-11-24T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/150732\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:16:13","slug":"never-missed-a-day-inside-the-mental-health-group-merging-faith-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/150732\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Never missed a day\u2019 | Inside the mental health group merging faith and science"},"content":{"rendered":"

LIBERTY TWP., Ohio \u2014 Jannah Gilbert calls her sister to ask for old family pictures. The woman on the other end of the phone immediately asks why, and when Gilbert tells her she\u2019s doing a television interview about mental health<\/a> there\u2019s an audible sigh.<\/p>\n

\u201cGirl bye,\u201d her sister says.<\/p>\n

Gilbert hangs up and looks at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee what I\u2019m saying?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilbert said she’s been trying to get some of her family to seek help. She tells us she needed mental health guidance years before asking for it. <\/p>\n

A few minutes later, she pulls out her phone and opens a text message. It’s a family photo. Gilbert\u2019s mother was white, barely tall enough to come up to her shoulders. Her dad was Black. The family grew up in Texas, and Gilbert tells me she was always asked if she was adopted. <\/p>\n

That compounded the tough love she says she received at home. Love that she has to stop herself from calling abuse multiple times. About a decade ago, Gilbert moved to West Chester Township to take care of her mom, who had terminal cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until the passing of my mother that I felt like something was going on,\u201d Gilbert said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to go out of the house. I didn\u2019t want to talk to anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilbert tells me this in her kitchen, while cutting potatoes and washing vegetables for dinner. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was severely depressed. And I\u2019d been that way for quite a while \u2014 didn\u2019t even know it,” Gilbert said. \u201cI had an individual therapist. That didn\u2019t work for me.”<\/p>\n

She needed something more. That\u2019s why on this rainy evening, she drives to a meeting at Modern Psychiatry and Wellness<\/a> in Liberty Township, for a group that blends spirituality and neuroscience.<\/p>\n

WATCH: Go inside the mental health group that combines faith and science<\/p>\n

This mental health group combines spirituality and neuroscience<\/p>\n

\u201cMedications are effective,\u201d said Quinton Moss, the medical director there. \u201cThey help most people. But there is still a segment of people who \u2014 even with that \u2014 can\u2019t get over the hump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moss tells me about his own experiences with mental health. <\/p>\n

\u201cOh gosh, I think I had my first depressive episode when I was in med school,\u201d Moss said. \u201cSo that\u2019s been a part of my journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

As has his faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s everything for me,\u201d Moss said. \u201cIt\u2019s everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

He started the practice in 2009 after using a combination of spirituality and mental health treatment to get through school. The program he runs now is called Life Reset. It starts with a meal and breathing exercises. And it ends with prayer. <\/p>\n

\u201cClients are saying they\u2019re feeling better,” Moss said. “Over and beyond what we typically do in mental health treatment.” <\/p>\n

The group\u2019s last meeting is this month, and Moss tells me he hopes to reopen the class early next year. Gilbert says she hasn\u2019t missed a meeting. And even though she’s late to this one, getting out in the cold and rain is huge for her. <\/p>\n

At her home, Gilbert says a prayer in Arabic. At the meeting, they say another kind of prayer. One that ends with amen. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all different types of denominations, but we still have that connection,\u201d Gilbert said. \u201cI\u2019m not in this alone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIBERTY TWP., Ohio \u2014 Jannah Gilbert calls her sister to ask for old family pictures. The woman on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[91957,91958,163,85,46,522,523,91959],"class_list":{"0":"post-150732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-cincinnati-news","9":"tag-finding-solutions","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth","15":"tag-wcpo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}