PSA: Religious Trauma Is Not Simply Disagreeing With Religion And Calling It Trauma. It Is Not, “I
PSA: Religious trauma is not simply disagreeing with religion and calling it trauma. It is not, “I was dragged to church every Sunday and I got really bored there.”
It is physical, verbal, and sexual abuse.
It is being led to believe that you will go to a place of eternal suffering if you step out of line, even if only slightly.
It is having a fear of said place of eternal suffering, and some people are afraid of it even after they renounce their faith.
It is being told that all people are inherently evil and deserving of death and eternal suffering for being flawed, and feeling ashamed of being imperfect as a result of this.
It is being told that you will never be good enough.
It is being told that you are nothing in comparison to God.
It is being told by loved ones (including those who raised you) that, if they had to choose between you and their god, you will always come second.
It is being discriminated against for being a minority.
It is being punished by and/or losing family and friends for rejecting parts of the faith or the faith itself.
It is being demonized for having sexual desires and having your worth based on whether or not you abstain until marriage, especially if you were assigned female at birth.
It is being told that you are responsible if others look at you with lust or sexually harass or assault you. Again, this idea is especially hammered into your head if you are a person who was assigned female at birth.
It is being physically or mentally unable to have sex or experiencing guilt after having sex due to purity culture.
It is having your health put at risk as a child because your family opposes certain medical procedures (vaccines, blood transfusions, etc.) for religious reasons.
It is being treated negatively for having a physical disability or mental disorder (not to mention the abusive behaviors listed above can worsen existing mental health disorders or cause them to come about in someone who did not have them previously.) This is not to say that nonreligious people can’t be plenty ableist, of course.
It is missing opportunities and losing years of your life to fear, repression, and pain.
It is experiencing horrible things in the name of a God that no one has undeniable proof of in terms of whether or not he exists.
Don’t get me wrong. I know that not all religious people do the things described above. But damn, if there aren’t a lot who do… those people are unfortunately the loudest.
This has been a PSA.
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I’ve been listening to this song Rebecca said she listened to while drawing Spinel (홍단아 - 탓탓탓 Feat. 스윙스) and im just obsessed so i made this. No idea if I’ll develop this into anything futher
We have been watching you all grow up.
We miss you. And know that your favorite stories have not forgotten you.
To think you found comfort in monsters, because the ones in your head or in your home at the time were too much to bare.
So you painted your faces, drew yourselves with us, ruined clothes to look like us or just enjoyed looking like a lunatic.
We watched you go from band tees and rubber bracelets with ripped jeans, to black dresses, slacks, ties, and corsets. Some of you did a whole fuckin 180° and wear neons and pastels. Others of you just enjoy a hoodie (heh) and jeans. Some of you guys wear long skirts and pants, with cloth-patched tops and boots, crystals hanging from your necks.
Some of you just elevated your aesthetics. We can see pieces of us that got left behind in you.
Either way, we're proud of you little freaks. We know shit's been hard.
Just know the creeps and nightmares you found comfort in are still watching over you. Whether you forgot we existed, or moved on with your lives.
We see the art you make. The stuff you guys write. Some of it makes us laugh or roll our eyes, we adore it anyway.
As red and orange leaves surround you, horror movies, and screams fill your minds once again, and you see an increase of our faces, we hope you find that nostalgia again.
- Your favorite Creeps
(Just a little thing that came to my mind to write, bc I'm 22 now seeing creepypasta on my feed again, and it sent me down a rabbit hole. Idk writing this gave me comfort. I hope it gives you comfort too. ♡ )
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