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Old Feb 03, 2016, 01:29 AM
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I'm sorry that you have to experience this. I am very much a Christian with the whole Christian college, Christian therapy center (my therapist is a PhD in counseling but also a pastor), etc.

13 years and 2 days ago my best friend came to my house to tell me all the ways I was not acting like a Christian and that my behaviors such as using meds and therapy were preventing me from following the righteous path or something. We had a mutual friend who was a psychologist and he had my permission to talk to her about anything. I had offered to pay for us to go to counseling together near her home. Instead she had people who didn't know me vote of whether I was a Christian. She told me that the only reason my other friend stayed in my life was guilt and a sense of duty. It was pretty awful. I was suicidal and when I confronted her about upsetting someone so much when she knew they were suicidal she said it was a risk she had to take. she risked my life......

It took me years to even talk about it beyond getting her out of my life about a year later. When I did I finally realized that God gave me this illness and He also gave me grace. Yes, my yelling "F***!" last night while slamming things around was not really right but He gave me this disorder and so He knows that I'm going to act like I have it. I may not be able to tolerate church but He knows that and always did.

Going through that hurt me so much. I can't imagine how hard it must be when those aren't even your beliefs you are being smacked with. I guess what helped me was individually countering each thing that upset me with what I believed. I did it in therapy and eventually shredded the thing she wrote and deleted it from my computer. I have never looked back although sometimes I do look for her online. She was basically abusive but I miss the good times still. Just not the time she decided she was more important than my life.
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