Mental Health on Sidechat | As someone who’s not religious, I’m really fucking sick and tired of religious people telling me to “turn to god” whenever I mention how shit my mental health is. Respectfully, keep that shit away from me.

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Mental Health 5w

As someone who’s not religious, I’m really fucking sick and tired of religious people telling me to “turn to god” whenever I mention how shit my mental health is. Respectfully, keep that shit away from me.

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Anonymous 5w

i'm glad people find comfort in their "relationship with god" or wtv but i feel like most people use god like a bandaid to cover up and hide problems instead of learning how to handle them on their own. if you have to rely on some omnipotent being in the sky for happiness you still have a lot of work to do on yourself

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Anonymous 5w

the toxicity of the church is why am even in this predicament the bullied me bad as a child

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Anonymous 5w

as someone who is religious, i don’t get why others push it so hard. not everyone gets that same comfort/help and that’s okay. i hope you do find something to help with your mental health though 💗

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Anonymous 5w

Everybody needs a little faith and hope in their lives. And when all hope is gone and your mind tells you that nobody cares about you…HE does❤️

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Anonymous 5w

Okay then let us know when your way works out

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Anonymous

#2 5w

Are all of yall this condescending lol?

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Anonymous

OP 5w

Read your comment again…such a hypocrite..

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Anonymous

#2 5w

Great. Another “Christian” dickhead. 🙄

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Anonymous

#2 5w

Omg i turned to God and he used his magical abilities to cure me of my depression! What a miracle🤩

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Anonymous

#1 5w

The sky ends at 100 miles above sea level and all that remains is vast nothingness for quite some distance. Statistically speaking that’s a pretty big limiting factor for the most powerful being in the known universe. Maybe your perception of the reality is what needs reshaping? I’m not telling you to no one of the Protestant religions, but I feel called to ask…where did all that is and was and will be come from? And before you answer this please consider the law of conservation of mass

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Anonymous

#4 5w

#1 doesn’t need to answer your stupid hypotheticals, they just made it vividly clear they aren’t religious😭 literally no one cares

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Anonymous

#2 5w

By this logic: your god created me and allowed me to be abused my entire childhood simply for existing. If that’s your god, then it will not fix the harm it has caused by creating me and did even bother to help me get out of that situation when I was literally an innocent child. That is not a benevolent god, nor one worth worshipping. Saying this as someone who has been ordained.

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Anonymous

#3 5w

Religion is a cult. Being in a fake performative club and observing the origins of the universe are two different things but maybe that concept is too intricate for you I sincerely apologize

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Anonymous

#5 5w

I would gently push back on that with my own nuance if I may. My father abandoning me at birth was hardly enjoyable and that being allowed is cruel in essence. I will say it has made me such a better human and the cycle of abuse In my family ended with me because of it’s happening. That must not be overlooked. Tragedy inspires change to those who refuse to get locked in despair and fear

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Anonymous

#4 5w

they’re on your side dawg

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Anonymous

#4 5w

Okay… good for you? I am considered so traumatized that my mental health problems are labeled as treatment resistant: been in therapy and on various meds since 2012, and nothing has helped. The only thing I haven’t tried yet is literal illegal substances in lab settings, like ketamine trials, and those are only accessible if you’re independently wealthy enough to afford making that your life instead of work and school for a few months.

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Anonymous

#4 5w

Your minimizations of the experiences of others, and the attitude that all of us can bounce back just like you did (because god forbid someone have a different experience than you) is insulting and dehumanizing.

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Anonymous

#4 5w

Also: be glad your father abandoned you. Mine didn’t, so I slept with a knife most of my childhood. We are not the same. Our experiences are not the same. Stop treating other people’s trauma like it’s something we can all overcome.

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Anonymous

#6 5w

Ordained minister here: I abandoned Christianity because your god allowed me to be abused my entire childhood. No matter how many times the cops came, no matter how many times I reached out to trusted adults outside my family, no one came. No human, no angel, no god. If there ever was a Abrahamic god, it abandoned us long ago, and our society shows it.

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Anonymous

#5 5w

I am so sorry you went through this. I’m glad you made it out, but you deserved more than you got. I’m not saying it to influence you to become religious again (I’m not religious). It just sucks that this happens to so many people.

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Anonymous

#2 5w

truly no hate like christian love!

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Anonymous

#4 5w

bro where the fuck did this come from 😭

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Anonymous

#5 5w

I lost my 15 year old brother to suicide. My parents did nothing. The school and teachers did nothing. The EMT’s and paramedics did nothing. His friends and all the kids at school did nothing. Everybody failed him. And I still get really angry at God! BUT SOMETIMES GOD SAYS NO. He’s not a fair God. EVERYBODY life sucks. Last time i try being supportive. Suck a dick and I’ll see you in hell😂

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Anonymous

#6 4w

sorry but such an unjust god isn’t one worth following

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