Do you attribute the benefit to a meditative process which has been studied, or peace of mind (I suppose this overlaps), or God choosing to grant you relief by virtue of worship
When I think back on how bad it got for me at my worst points, it does seem miraculous how far I've come. When I first started praying, I was so far down I'd wound up in a mental hospital, and I made a promise to God/myself that if I ever got out of the situation I was in, that I'd become a believer (was a firm atheist growing up). 10 years later, I have a successful career and a loving family, and my difficult past seems like a different lifetime. I fully intend to stick to the promise I made back then.
That said, I also believe that it wouldn't have been possible without me taking a lot of actions and working to better my situation. In my mind, it's like God held the door open, but I had to push myself to actually step through it.
So to answer your question directly, I don't believe it would've been possible without some form of divine assistance, like if I was just talking to myself (as in meditation).
> I made a promise to God/myself that if I ever got out of the situation I was in, that I'd become a believer
I don't think Christian belief is meant to be contingent on perceived debt over wordly affairs. That said, the relationship of faith, worship and salvation arguably has debt woven into it, unless you're a Calvinist or the like, in which case, nothing you do can guarantee salvation. It seems afterlife is a pretty popular motivation to believe, but then some religions have no afterlife yet still have followers.
> I don't believe it would've been possible without some form of divine assistance
Then effectively you have a faith that it would have been impossible to pull through without divine intervention? Since you couldn't really know. Some can claim to have pulled through breakdowns without.
I feel there's a kind of vanity in the God-found-my-car-keys convictions of miraculous intervention while people, including children, can suffer in excess until their demise, prayer notwithstanding. It says: God's plan is for others to suffer, and for me to get special treatment, because I'm a meaningful cog in his plan which cannot be comprehended. That's how he prioritizes. Or alternatively: I believe those people don't suffer as much as is perceived, if they have faith (that's a popular one). Or another alternative: their mortal suffering doesn't matter, salvation is the only thing that does (which would undermine the rationale in praying for mortal relief)
