How have your religious beliefs (atheist and agnostic too) affected your ability to mentally get better?

[greyblue_bian]

For anyone who has been hospitalized/gone through any sort of psychiatric treatments and has ever had any religious beliefs…It's for a paper and I thought getting perspectives would help me research more on the topic….

 

[noname223]

I think religions can give strength to recover. Though for me it was quite the opposite. I was raised somewhat christian. During my first major depression with severe suicidality the notion of hell scared the shit out of me. I had very horribe nightmares which increased my pain even more. When I read about atheism this could comfort me. But that is pretty individual. I am now either atheist or agnostic not fully sure about it.
Losing my faith made life a little bit easier to cope with.

 

[Sulyya]

I was atheist all my life and started with faith pretty recently. It can save my mood some of the time which is much better than none. Still facing my personal life issues though.

 

[picklemick]

I wish I could believe in something tbh

 

[nixdeath]

For anyone who has been hospitalized/gone through any sort of psychiatric treatments and has ever had any religious beliefs…It's for a paper and I thought getting perspectives would help me research more on the topic….

I was born a Christian. After getting abused by a church member, at first it didn't lead me to hate God, but to try and love him and trust him more. Eventually, this didn't really work and I lost faith. For a little bit i worshiped Satan, but eventually I just did not worship anybody. This felt freeing at first, but it still did not help me recover. I since never have, although recently I have converted back. I never thought I would, and I'm almost embarrassed of it, but I still have. Anyway all this to say I'm hopeful that religion can bring peace, but not quite sure.

 

[Tobacco]

Becoming an agnostic has crippled my mental health

Hello everyone, this is my first thread. Being religious was my biggest psychological crutch and I bet it is for a lot of people. I was part of minority religious sects since I was like 14 years old. I NEEDED God to be real. Before that, when I was in 5th grade I was losing my faith because I...

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[Kasumi]

I did believe in god previously but that didn't make me feel any better or any worse.
Maybe realising that I wouldnt get any help from god was what slowly caused me to not believe in god anymore.
After all if god really existed it would mean that either god didn't care or even worse, intentionally ruined my life, and that doesn't fit to how god is described.