Can church be bad for your health?

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

EMDR - is used to replace a tramatic event in one's life (in your brain/thoughts). You are asked to think of a "safe" place you can go to in your mind (big fluffy chair that makes you feel safe and cozy) or whatever. Then they begin the therapy by causing your eyes to go back and forth - which "opens files" in your brain of the bad experience and you are signaled to replace that file with your "safe" place.

The problem is that if might not work and you open even deeper or more disturbing tramatic events.

True. Some have found that the emotional and spiritual abuse they endured didn't begin in church. Sometimes it originated from early in their childhoods and situations in church mulitiplied the pain, sense of rejection, failure, etc.