Can church be bad for your health?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by coadie

Aquila, that ain't exactly true either. Where do you get your "stuff"???



"perhaps the most radical thing that I said in that book that deviated from traditional psychiatry is that I located the source of psychiatric ills in the conscious mind, rather than the unconscious.”
Yes this quote is from M Scott Peck M. D.a real psychoanalyst.
The old Freudian models say the garbage comes from repressed memories etc.

A real Repentence means no more bondage and no more chains. That includes the past.

There is a lot of money to be made selling psychotropic drugs to victims and carriers of anxiety disorders.

Kinda hard for folks to claim emotional abuse from a pastor when they listen to preachin' less that 75 minutes a week.

It sounds tempting for this woman to gossip about how bad the preacher is . One day they will have to do an intervention and have her cope with her issues. Boundaries may be a small part of them, but not the core issue.

This person was in leadership and was at the church nearly every day for preparation for Sunday School, choir practice, family prayer, choral practice, morning prayer, out reach, etc. They were VERY involved and VERY close to the leadership. It's already confirmed that the pastor's wife suffers from chemical embalances and takes medication for it. Her mood swings and his accomodating her has led to a number of seriously hurt people. At one point this ultra conservative church MANDATED that everyone in leadership have a filter on their computer that generated a record of internet activity to a mailbox accessible by the pastor. They were not allowed to watch television, non-Christian radio was admonished and secular radio condemned, no worldly sports allowed, women were admonished not to cut the hair, those who did were condemned, slandered, and disfellowshiped,... the list could go on. I know the church this person came from, I attended too for many years before leaving because of abusive leadership.

You're missing the point Coadie...

Is it possible that someone could suffer from PTSD in relation to emotional and spiritual abuse in church?

Is it possible that while this person misses church on some levels, attending sends them into such a negative spiral that attending church is bad for them?

Those are some simple questions.