Religious trauma can lead to many mental health issues, but another key characteristic of religious trauma that’s sometimes overlooked is the way it often manifests in distressing physical symptoms. We’ll be covering 6 of the most common physical manifestations of religious trauma in this article.
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The Truth About Comparative Suffering & Religious Trauma Recovery
Comparative suffering is when someone minimizes their own pain or trauma by comparing it to the experiences of others, somehow concluding that their own suffering is less significant or valid in comparison to the suffering of others. This article explores some of the pitfalls of engaging in comparative suffering.
4 Ways Children are Wounded by Religious Cult Parenting Practices
Religious cults often support authoritarian parenting practices, which can create lasting harm to children’s emotional, mental and sometimes physical well-being. This article looks at the four lasting consequences authoritarian parenting tends to have on children.
How to Deal with Religious Trauma Triggers
Religious trauma impacts the nervous system, sensitizing it to perceived threats and resulting in “triggers” even after leaving the traumatic environment. These religious trauma triggers can take on many forms. This article explores how to spot these triggers and what to do about them.
5 Ways High Control Religions Cause You to Dissociate
Dissociation is a common symptom of religious trauma, and indoctrination into a high control religion (which often leads to religious trauma) can cause you to dissociate as a way of managing the extreme, chronic stress of your environment. This article explores the different types of dissociation and the specific ways high control religion may cause you to dissociate.
Religious Trauma & OCD: Everything You Need To Know
The source of your religious OCD may be unhealed religious trauma. This article gives you an in-depth overview of what religious OCD is and how it could be connected to religious trauma, particularly for those who were indoctrinated into a high control religion.
Quitting Religion Doesn’t Mean You Quit Being a Fundamentalist
Religious indoctrination often results in rigid, black and white patterns of thinking. Even after leaving the religion, it’s common to continue these fundamentalist patterns. Most people simply transfer this rigidity onto something else. This “internalized fundamentalism” can be viewed as an ongoing symptom of religious trauma.
A Therapist Reviews: When Religion Hurts You by Dr. Laura Anderson
This book is an excellent primer on religious trauma and how it impacts those who have been affected by it. My review of this book gives my overall impressions of the book and who might benefit most from reading it.
How to Untangle Religious Trauma from Family Trauma
As people begin the journey of healing from their religious trauma, they often discover it’s completely tangled up with their family trauma. One seems to complicate the other. This article explores why this is and what to do about it.