The Lord's Prayer is from Mathew in the New Testament, as well as Luke. It is the words that Jesus instructed his disciples to say and I found listening to them all reciting the words while holding hands in a circle as I sat out, really isolating. It was getting worse each time instead of better. I had spoken up during a sharing and said I didn't participate in the LP because i was not a Christian and I was sitting down because I did not know what else to do.

It doesn't help that my family are all Holocaust survivors. I didn't mention that part. I was starting to think how many of my family were killed for being Jews who were different in their religious practise. I thought of my dead relatives while they said their prayer.

@BirdDancer, you have a lot of insight into how the anonymous fellowships deal with mental illness. I have started going to an Emotions Anonymous meeting and it has a different feeling to it.