Replies to '01/05 "Am I Cursed?"'

I got Sharons age wrong.  She was 9 when she was forced to go through an excorcism.  Not that I think two years makes one bit of difference.  It still explains all her feelings of guilt, fear, and shame. 

And before I get a rebuttal post from countrycow explaining how all Sharon needs is to accept Jesus into her heart, please allow me to continue with my thoughts on this.  

 Like Sharon, I too was abused at the hands of the religious.  Not near as drastic as her, but still...  Like all abuse survivors, I too felt the fear guilt and shame.  For years and years and years and years.  No amount of religious counsel ever took that completley away.    The only way I was ever able to heal was with psychological help.  Understanding my feelings.  Learning why I had them.  Knowing I was not alone.  Learning how to change my thinking and how to heal.  Being told over and over and over again, until it finally started sinking in, that I was not evil.  I was a child!  An innocent!  Just as Sharon was.  Even worse for Sharon, not only did she carry the burden of childhood abuse by thinking she was bad and unworthy and filled with guilt fear and shame, she was TOLD she was all these things by a religious power.  Her father.  

 She needs to be UNtold all of this.  Over and over and over, by someone who wont get into all the possible "evil" in the world, but who will stick with the psychological effects children who are abused are left to suffer with.  If after all of this, she still has a desire to seek out religous/ spiritual help, then by all means!  But at this point, I for one, think poor Sharon has been put through enough at the hands of religion and is now in need of one hell(againpun intended) of a good psychologist.  JMO 

I got Sharons age wrong.  She was 9 when she was forced to go through an excorcism.  Not that I think two years makes one bit of difference.  It still explains all her feelings of guilt, fear, and shame. 

And before I get a rebuttal post from countrycow explaining how all Sharon needs is to accept Jesus into her heart, please allow me to continue with my thoughts on this.  

 Like Sharon, I too was abused at the hands of the religious.  Not near as drastic as her, but still...  Like all abuse survivors, I too felt the fear guilt and shame.  For years and years and years and years.  No amount of religious counsel ever took that completley away.    The only way I was ever able to heal was with psychological help.  Understanding my feelings.  Learning why I had them.  Knowing I was not alone.  Learning how to change my thinking and how to heal.  Being told over and over and over again, until it finally started sinking in, that I was not evil.  I was a child!  An innocent!  Just as Sharon was.  Even worse for Sharon, not only did she carry the burden of childhood abuse by thinking she was bad and unworthy and filled with guilt fear and shame, she was TOLD she was all these things by a religious power.  Her father.  

 She needs to be UNtold all of this.  Over and over and over, by someone who wont get into all the possible "evil" in the world, but who will stick with the psychological effects children who are abused are left to suffer with.  If after all of this, she still has a desire to seek out religous/ spiritual help, then by all means!  But at this point, I for one, think poor Sharon has been put through enough at the hands of religion and is now in need of one hell(againpun intended) of a good psychologist.  JMO