Poll Have You Had Bad Experiences With a Church or Religious Organization?

[sweetface]

I chose yes and it caused my PTSD but really it just made it worse. It retraumatized me as religious people are fanatical usually and judgemental. It goes with the territory.

 

[vietnam2nd]

my chuch has made me so angry that i have not gone to church in over seventeen years. i have thought about going back as i like the late pope john paul ii. if i went to confesion one of my aunts joke the priest while answer please give me the short version since your last confession was over seventeen years ago. so i vote yes the church hurt me but had nothing to do with my ptsd.

 

[Deleted member 1606]

Yes

Yes, every day. I support and accept people of all religions, but not when they try to legislate how I life my life. It's my experience that people who try to control other people have no life of their own. I'm too busy running my life to try and run someone else's.

 

[Other]

I haven't had any traumatic experiences with any churches, but I have had what I think of as "bad" experiences with several religious organizations.

I put "No, I don't go to church".

-Other

 

[eml]

This is a good question for me as I am opening up as a newbie. The church was not the beginning for me, but it definitely added to a lifelong pattern of abusive situations. For 13 years I belonged to a holiness church where most of the congregation lived in constant fear. Sometimes the minister would out right call out someone's name and yell at the person from the pulpit. To this day I am extremely sensitive about doing what is "right".

 

[fin]

Hi yes....I took part in this poll, and my answer wasnt correct...I left it because there wasn't an option for me and I was having some church issues at the time of seeing it.

If there could be another option ...did a church contribute to your PTSD (C-PTSD in my case). I know I shouldnt have taken part as I'm not ptsd....but it did contribute massively to my trauma....(I was sexually abused and then later raped by church member/s) , but it wasn't solely the only thing to bring on PTSD. Nor was it the first trauma I had experienced.

(sorry if my answer has skewed the poll findings although I know that is taken into account when analysing statistics)

So if there could be another question there that would be great.
Thankyou
~fin

 

[2quilt]

I was raised Southern Baptist; all the crap about stillborn children go to hell, dancing sends you to hell, holding snakes makes you powerful and god will keep the snake from killing you if you are worthy, and nobody else but Baptists that think exactly the way my church says to think will make it to heaven.

I am now a happy Atheist. Religion is superstition.

 

[jeapea]

I voted yes, but it didn't cause my ptsd.

It contributed to it's ongoing effects and manipulating and justifying the abusers behaviors more than anything else ever has, though!

 

[tardis]

I hate my f*cken church, or rather, the one I was raised in, I'm atheist now. Didn't cause my PTSD, but they weren't kind to me. Fact is, they told my parents I was not welcome to attend as a kid because of my disruptive behaviour (related to my autism). I don't know... maybe they were right that I was too disruptive, but I don't understand why they couldn't have been more accomodating or tried to work out some solution, rather than essentially banning me from the church. To this day it still hurts and humiliates me to think about and I reckon I will never set foot in that church again.

 

[fin]

This sucks Tardis, I am so sorry that this was your experience.

I have seen it also myself, and just gotta ask myself; what the hell are they thinking when children are not welcome in a church????

Maybe not such a bad thing for you tardis...to be somewhere that asks people not to bring their children, maybe not such a good place to be.

No matter what Tardis , no matter what, Just soo wrong that they did that.

 

[tardis]

Yer it stinks. I get so damn pissed off just thinking about it. And being engaged complicates things. Evie and I are of the same religious background; consequently both sets of parents are assuming we will get married in "our" church. At first it didn't bother me but the more I think about it, I reckon I don't like it. I'm not ever going there again and ****ed if any children we have will ever go there either, so I don't see the point...

 

[cragger65]

I put 2nd one, "Yes but did not cause PTSD", though I think that it never would have been so convoluted and damaging had it not been for my earlier experiences with religion, and a religious sister's comments to me after breakdown. Both EXTREMELY DAMAGING. Sado-Catholisism is what I term it for the younger years, using fear and threat to manipulate and mangle young minds. My sister is just a self-important twit.