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View Poll Results: Have You Been Hurt By Your Church? | |
Yes, and it caused my PTSD.
|     | 4 | 8.89% | |
Yes, but it did not cause PTSD.
|    | 25 | 55.56% | |
No, my church or religious organization has always been helpful.
|    | 8 | 17.78% | |
No, I do not go to church.
|    | 8 | 17.78% | 
12-12-2007, 10:00 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Oranjestad, Aruba
Posts: 2,305
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Oh okay thanks for the explanation and sorry if I sounded sensitive. I didn't think about the placebo effect. But when you consider that you are right it is important, for statistical purposes. I guess I'd better go vote in that other poll now! |
01-01-2008, 04:27 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida, USA
Posts: 1,236
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While I do not go to church, Mother does. I have a funny story to share about church. My mom and the ladies decided that I needed to be fixed up with the Tall, Dark, Handsome singer in the church choir!
He was absolutely beautiful and had a voice that would melt butter. Well, we went out on "1" date and I instantly knew This guy is a NUT!
He proceeded to stalk me for months. He left 100's of messages on my answering machine. Left food on my patio after I went to work. He would park his car by mine at work and wait for me. I worked the 3-11 shift so his being there was creepy.
This was in 1991 so the stalking laws were weak at best. I was scared but not traumatized--I don't think! There really was nothing I could do but it did became the joke of the church and the ladies group.
He finally went away, but only after security at work and here at the complex where I live explained the "facts" to him.
Anyway, meeting good people at church is not always the best advise |
22-07-2008, 09:52 AM
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Posts: 23
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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. |
23-07-2008, 01:49 PM
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Posts: 35
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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. |
20-11-2008, 03:33 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: San Francisco
Posts: 119
| |  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. |
22-11-2008, 10:41 PM
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Posts: 50
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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".
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