Dear friend,
God allows evil to exist in the world and while it is not His Perfect Will, He allows it because the circumstances often provide a chance for even greater good to happen. Consider the death of Christ on the Cross. God allowed His Only Son to suffer terribly (even to the point of death) because, by That Very Circumstance, which He would lovingly offer as the Sacrifice for sin, the whole world could be saved.
So accordingly, we can unite our sufferings with Our Savior to become an offering for those who need it.
We cannot see things as God does but, if we could, we would understand what He accomplished through the worst of trials.
The mental illness you spoke of sounded like it resolved itself, even so much so that everyone saw God's providence in the aftermath.
Maybe that is all the reason you need.
Peace,
Bob Kirby
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