I woke from what seems like an anxiety or panic attack. Been realizing that the environment I'm in is what makes me feel sad and depressed. Needing to suppress my emotions or feelings to avoid what my family avoids. But why should I do that if they often show when they're upset about something. I should be able to. Waking up from that and going to my mother made me realize how her tough love, is probably a reason why I am the way the way I am. I don't want to follow her path.
Thank you.. didn't know where to turn to.
I haven’t had that problem specifically, but I think some others in this group have
Oh what’s the meaning of the second drawing?
Are you able to get professional help? Therapy?
Just how I feel about religion
What’s your religious belief?
It's sad for those of us who experience it, whether aware or unaware of it. We don't want to blame others but sometimes what others do, affects us. Especially when it's been continuous
Or what was your religious upbringing?
I used to be atheist, but now I'm agnostic. Born to a Catholic family
I have considered it, therapy or a psychiatrist but am iffy after the last time they had tried to go straight into some tough experiences and not what was happening in the present
Ahh that tends to happen when we come from a Catholic home, it's understandable
I've been lied to about God, and I can't imagine that happening on my worst enemy. Gaslighting your own children where there's a man in the sky that'll send you to hell if you disobey him even slightly. But he's SO loving, isn't he?
I've wondered about that too and why certain people choose to hide behind religion to do or say certain things when they don't practice what they preach
It's no wonder many of us struggle to have faith, not just in religion but in anything
I have been raised as a Catholic too.
I consider myself an atheist now.
I'm very sorry. It seems somehow it helps to not be a certain way that isn't I guess well, not like the people who tried to push their beliefs onto us
I am not spiritual, and I don’t have the feeling that my family imposed their beliefs on me
It’s just the culture that was prominent in my country at the time
But I lost my faith in my early youth and I don’t regret it
And I don’t miss having other spiritual beliefs
I don't know what I believe in anymore
Am a Christian.
I feel relieved not believing in anything
I don't know
Times have been tough so things are not going well so I guess that's what confuses me
Holding religious beliefs in a world based on scientific knowledge doesn’t make much sense, in my opinion.
Religion has the purpose of giving hope for an afterlife
I feel guilty for feeling conflicted 😔
Science it's self is not reliable
Grew up in a Christian home
Science can be proven
Faith cannot
So being conflicted makes me gulity
>>> Science can be proven Faith cannot
Not everything 'proven' is accurate
Religion expects us to believe that there’s a man in heaven observing us and who created the world in 7 days
If you watch national geographic documentaries you'll find that things the bible are true
Proven in real life
It might not be accurate but it is continuously revised
>>> Religion expects us to believe that there’...
God
Yeah he did
I am not going to discuss catholic predicaments
You are free to believe what you want
>>> But doubting is normal
Yeah true
