Disheartened Faith
Blind faith is confusion. Manipulated faith means that you have lost track by being misguided by those who are not truthful. You have to give them up in order to make some real progress. Distorted faith is what you have produced yourself by your own cheating mentality, by being too attached to matter and sense gratification. Very often the loss of superior faith takes place by being involved with activities in distorted faith, such as intoxication.
When you take intoxicants, like tobacco, marihuana, different drugs or alcohol, even your positive, constructive, reasonable faith may become shaken. But that is your mistake.
Disheartened faith is something else, which is more or less produced by having encounters with people who disheartened you. You may have trusted them, but then you got abandoned. That is of course a very painful experience. You have to go through this to realize that only the truth, and the souls who are purely dedicated to the truth, or at least those who are pure in purpose, can provide healing faith. They have real faith, positive healing transcendental faith. You will become disheartened when you put too much faith in somebody who does not have these qualifications. Having been disheartened should encourage you to find somebody appropriate to put your faith in.
We cannot walk without faith. We cannot even eat without faith. If you ate something, which gave you a lot of pain in your stomach, then next time you would not eat it. You would no longer have faith in that food. If something like this happened, you would not stop eating altogether. You would try to go somewhere else and get something else. If this something else gave you good nutrition, then you would put your faith in that type of food. Disheartened faith in that sense is an aid to finding real faith.