I guess it depends what you mean by 'spiritual support'. I do think that it sounds like you both were treated quite badly, though, I'm sorry.

I guess I agree with spiritual_emergency in that some atheists can be just as intolerant in their views as some religious folk can be in theirs. Dawkins book 'The God Delusion' springs to mind, here, I think that it is a shame that he uses unnecessary rhetoric that is likely to put people off more than anything else. I know a number of atheists who think Dawkins tends to give atheism a bad name. But then similarly, I know a number of religious folk who similarly lament that (they think) some church doctines give theism a bad name.

I guess... People are thinking of the 'bio-psycho-social model'. Its been jazzed up with a fourth aspect: 'spiritual' by some theorists. So getting better is about altering biology and psychology and teaching people to integrate into society (you don't hear much about altering society so that it is more suited to individuals needs). And spirituality... I wonder what this is supposed to be... But then I similarly worry about the soul and about how it is different from the mind (if survival after death amounts to pyschological continuity of memory and conscious experience and so on and so forth). Dunno...