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When mental health treatment assumes religious solutions

My therapist suggested I explore spirituality to help with my depression and I don't know how to tell her that organized religion was part of what made me depressed.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic relationships become strained when professional recommendations conflict with personal history and authentic healing needs.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Atheist and secular identity?”

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