![]() ![]() Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome …presents as a severe, negative - almost allergic - reaction to inflexible doctrine, outright abuse of spiritual power, dogma and (often) praise bands and preachers. Reba Riley wrote a wonderful blog called It’s Called Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome and Yes, It’s Real where she describes her own experiences. Each person may have a different story, but they all were hurt in some way by the culture or politics of their church. It could be a conflict, abuse, bullying, or some other event that causes a disconnect in a person’s mind between the way that person thinks the church should be and the failure of the church to live up to that. Post-Traumatic Church is the result of a traumatic event that occurs to a person in a church. I recently met some people in Facebook who have had some painful church conflicts and I learned about a new term: Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome. A few years ago, when I attended an Episcopal Church, I inquired if there was any group that I could attend for people struggling to overcome painful church conflicts, but they didn’t have any. It’s been tough trying to find others who’ve gone through similar experiences who would be able to empathize and understand. For the past decade or so, I’ve been struggling to understand and move on from several conflicts that I’ve had in church. ![]()
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