Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

  • @betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    151 year ago

    And then filtering out the ones who suggest that the solution is a stronger personal relationship with god and they know the nicest little church, you’ll love it, …

    • @meyotch@slrpnk.netOP
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      11 year ago

      Those therapists need to have their licenses revoked. If a therapist doesn’t have the objectivity to keep their own preferences out of therapy, are they even qualified to be doing it? I’d say no. For some, the community of church is a healthy thing, for others it just adds to the trauma. A competent therapist would figure out what each client really needed before pushing the church crap.