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From: Cougar on 7 Jul 2007 02:24 Still wondering if anybody has dealt with this. What do you do? What do you feel? Who helps you? cougar
From: coyote on 7 Jul 2007 13:03 Cougar wrote: > Still wondering if anybody has dealt with this. What do you do? What do > you feel? Who helps you? > cougar > > As the other person who replied to you said: please define "religious abuse" so that people have some context to work off of. Right now it could be interpreted at least 5 different ways, so could you please be more specific? -- ~coyote
From: Cougar on 7 Jul 2007 17:12 I posted a link the first time I asked if anyone suffered from Religious Abuse (RA). If someone does not suffer from this, they will not relate or understand. If you have been spiritually or religiously abused then you will know exactly what I am talking about. You can google "religious abuse" and there is not much of a dictionary, scientific explanation that I can post. This subject has not been addresses very much, however, there are many sources explaining the effects of PTSD. Maybe different experiences, but alot of the feelings are the same behind the issues of why someone has PTSD to begin with. Post-traumatic stress disorder(according to wikipedia): " (PTSD) is a term for certain severe psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful events that the person experiences as highly traumatic.[1] Clinically, such events involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or a threat to physical and/or psychological integrity, to a degree that usual psychological defenses are incapable of coping with the impact. PTSD may be triggered by an external factor or factors. Its symptoms can include the following: nightmares, flashbacks, emotional detachment or numbing of feelings (emotional self-mortification or dissociation), insomnia, avoidance of reminders and extreme distress when exposed to the reminders ("triggers"), loss of appetite, irritability, hypervigilance, memory loss (may appear as difficulty paying attention), excessive startle response, clinical depression, and anxiety. It is also possible for a person suffering from PTSD to exhibit one or more other comorbid psychiatric disorders; these disorders often include clinical depression (or bipolar disorder), general anxiety disorder, and a variety of addictions." My definition of what religious abuse is...well, that's why I am posting to this board. I am not ready to publicly tell my story. I am looking for others who have been in cults or cult like organizations (christian and non-christian) who have endured years of oppressive abuse, scare tactics, punishment methods, bible thumping, cut off from the outside world or they are going to hell type of experiences. Anyone that has been in a cult, extreme organized religion who has lasting scars and can't move past it. People who have PTSD from their experience...people who have suffered mental, emotional and spiritual abuse as a result of being in an organization and as a result, are spiritually fragmented, broken, and have found nothing to make it ok again. That's the person I am wanting to visit with. Maybe this definition will help. It is about psychological abuse, which is very similar to what I have endured from religious abuse. Psychological abuse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Psychological abuse refers to the humiliation or intimidation of another person, but is also used to refer to the long-term effects of emotional shock. Psychological abuse can take the form of physical intimidation, controlling through scare tactics and oppression. It is often associated with situations of power imbalance, such perhaps as the situations of abusive relationships and child abuse; however, it can also take place on larger scales, such as Group psychological abuse, racial oppression and bigotry. A more "mild" case might be that of workplace abuse. Workplace abuse is a large cause of workplace-related stress, which in turn is a strong cause of illness, both physical and mental. There need not be an agitator for psychological abuse to occur - one can undergo self-abuse, as in the case of someone who is a depressive, or self-mutilation. Any situation in which the repeated and extreme impact of a situation affects a person's emotional and rational thinking, in such a way as to adversely impact their later lives, could be termed as psychological abuse at some level. Psychotherapy and psychiatric methods can help some people overcome the negative effects of abuse, given time and a healing environment.
From: coyote on 7 Jul 2007 19:36 Cougar wrote: > I posted a link the first time I asked if anyone suffered from Religious > Abuse (RA). I saw no link, Im sorry. Can you repost it? This is all that was in the body of your post: > First time post. Would like to hear from anybody who has religious > abuse, and is suffering from that. I do not think I can help you, as I have no experience with what you described in the rest of this post, but I *would* like information I can learn from. -- ~coyote
From: Cougar on 8 Jul 2007 01:11
I will look for that link. My mind has been really upset, and I am not sure I kept it. The info I posted today was similar...pretty much the same info, but if I run across that other info, I will post it ok. Thanks, Cougar "coyote" <no(a)spam.thx> wrote in message news:12ltk5.buk.17.1(a)news.alt.net... > Cougar wrote: > > I posted a link the first time I asked if anyone suffered from Religious > > Abuse (RA). > > I saw no link, Im sorry. Can you repost it? This is all that was in the > body of your post: > > > First time post. Would like to hear from anybody who has religious > > abuse, and is suffering from that. > > > I do not think I can help you, as I have no experience with what you > described in the rest of this post, but I *would* like information I can > learn from. > > > > > > -- > ~coyote |