The relationship between religion and mental healthcare are somewhat complicated with the psychiatric need for control and religions attempt to accept what we cannot control. Swedish mental healthcare is undergoing a change towards a more individualistic and patient ruled care. Throughout the world clinicians are more and more convinced with the positive effects religion and spirituality can have on the recovery process for the mentally ill. This paper will show a variety of different studies made on the effect of combining religious coping with mental illness as well as showing result from interview made especially for the context of this paper. The result of these combined studies shows an overall positive effect of religious coping for the mentally ill. Focus within the primary study is behaviourproblematics with extra attention on IPS, emotionally instable personalitydisorder formerly known as borderline personalitydisorder and posttraumatic stresssymptom.