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For as long as organized religion has existed, there have always been some percentage of people who were born into it — or joined at some point — and later left. In recent times, particularly in the ...

These days, it seems like trauma talk is everywhere you turn. Looking back, signs of an approaching wave were there. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that public conversation about religious ...

Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS) can look like other disorders – PTSD, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders (i.e. hoarding or social anxiety), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), ...