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Old 09-04-2009, 01:49 PM
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shockozulu
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I'm religious now but religion screwed me up. I found that I had to be able to talk about my time in a religious cult to get over those issues. The fact many don't know the cult side of the religious group I was a member of made things very hard. These parts of my life are very important and the longer I held them in the more screwed up I became. My shrink was great with that, as was my therapist. The first is a bi-sexual agnostic, the second was a gay Jewish man dating an active Mormon. It didn't matter what religion THEY are, what matters is their ability to practice psychology. If I had a rapport with them, and I did, then I trusted them with my life. And in those years of my life, that was not a figurative term, but literal.

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