My husband says I cry out in the night and cry in my sleep. I was in an empty room with no escape. Totally alone and so so scared. Why RTS is so invisible With RTS, the social context is completely different from other trauma recovery situations. [babcp.com]

When asked to describe my past, overwhelming emotions sap my body of positive energy...Flashbacks assault my subconscious in vicious nightmares after dredging up this damage. [babcp.com]

As a child I had an awful fear of hell, and I used to fall asleep crying cause I thought I wasn't saved. Irrational fear leads to irrational decisions. [babcp.com]

Depression, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, etc... you name it. It sucks. Probably from years of guilt being a Christian and a sinner, and thinking people I love are in hell. [babcp.com]

Religion can and does cause great personal suffering, fractured families, and social breakdown. There are many individuals needing and deserving recognition and treatment from informed professionals. [babcp.com]

Intriguingly, both the Tetris study and the opiate study suggest that it may be possible to interrupt negative neuroplasticity—even before it occurs! [psychologytoday.com]

They gently suggest that I’m over sensitive or making a big deal out of nothing or that I don’t understand who Jesus really was or that it couldn’t have been all that bad since I turned out to be such a nice person. [babcp.com]

In many ways, a person with RTS can be retraumatized again and again through minimizing and denial. This can cause regression to an earlier state of fear by triggering the phobia indoctrination. [babcp.com]

Their ‘relationship’ with God was a central assumption, such that giving it up feels like a genuine loss to be grieved. It can be like losing a lover, a parent, or best friend who has always been there. [babcp.com]

As a child I had an awful fear of hell, and I used to fall asleep crying cause I thought I wasn't saved. Irrational fear leads to irrational decisions. [babcp.com]

I've been feeling a mixture of anger, sadness, and desperation regarding my former ‘life of faith’... [babcp.com]

Whether or not they lead to practical treatments, they are both exciting examples of what I have called the "the New Neuropsychiatry ". [psychologytoday.com]

People report huge relief and some excitement about their new possibilities. [babcp.com]

I even got headaches from thinking and worrying so endlessly. A lonely trip into the unknown battling that what you have been taught, questioning over and over again that what might be true or untrue. [babcp.com]

Never have I experienced such confusion, pain, grief, loss fear, anxiety, depression, paralysis. All because of religion, faith, God. [babcp.com]