Losing Faith Complicates Mental Health Recovery?

[TubbyTubby]

The brain likes stability, especially when it comes to the model of reality it creates for itself. Uprooting that model by concluding your religion is false will cause the brain to be unbalanced. When you combine that with mental health issues, which essentially means you have a brain that doesn't stabilize very well, you throw your brain and your sense of self into a sort of chaotic soup. It's a one-two combo that can really mess you up.

I have never dealt with leaving a religion, but having spent over a decade battling mental health issues myself, I can see how it would exacerbate the situation. Just do your best to stay vigilant about what helps and what hurts and remember that there are many others out there that share your struggles.

This is all very interesting stuff, at least for me anyway. It's not something I've considered too much. It is also quite telling that Drich and our other theist residents seem to avoid these types of discussion.