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just me here
I am just wondering, does anyone else have a controling, overbearing religious parent in their history? I was exposed to a very strict religion at the age of 11 by a stepparent.
They sent me to a school where the majority of the kids were also rejecting the efforts of a parent to force them into compliance. Some kids had been in the religion all of their lives and had no problem following the rules, no matter how strict. The rest of us were more like me and speaking for myself, I fealt oppressed and un-loved, humiliated and criticised, an outsider in what had been my home, an unwanted intruder at my new school and the focus of ridicule at my new church.
An interesting thing about that school, we had 17 kids in the 6th grade and 4 were in prison for long sentences by the age of twenty, one was killed while working prostitution, and half suffered from drug addiction at one time or another.
Sadly, I would say most of us threw any moral compass we had out when we threw out the religion. .
Thats my glancing blow with religion, and through EMDR I have come to realise how much of my life is affected by the three years I was exposed to the extremes of that religion.
I have purposely avoided naming the faith here, I think if I named it I might hit some sore nerves or insult some beleivers, I would suggest that anyone that responds to this should do the same..........but I wonder, how many people suffered long term emotional abuse at the hands of an overly zealous religious parent? How many think it started them on a path leading to CPTSD?
They sent me to a school where the majority of the kids were also rejecting the efforts of a parent to force them into compliance. Some kids had been in the religion all of their lives and had no problem following the rules, no matter how strict. The rest of us were more like me and speaking for myself, I fealt oppressed and un-loved, humiliated and criticised, an outsider in what had been my home, an unwanted intruder at my new school and the focus of ridicule at my new church.
An interesting thing about that school, we had 17 kids in the 6th grade and 4 were in prison for long sentences by the age of twenty, one was killed while working prostitution, and half suffered from drug addiction at one time or another.
Sadly, I would say most of us threw any moral compass we had out when we threw out the religion. .
Thats my glancing blow with religion, and through EMDR I have come to realise how much of my life is affected by the three years I was exposed to the extremes of that religion.
I have purposely avoided naming the faith here, I think if I named it I might hit some sore nerves or insult some beleivers, I would suggest that anyone that responds to this should do the same..........but I wonder, how many people suffered long term emotional abuse at the hands of an overly zealous religious parent? How many think it started them on a path leading to CPTSD?
