Radical religious upbringing can destroy a child’s ability to feel their own emotions
Evidence
The Vienna Children’s and Youth Advocate’s Office reports, “And some are so caught up in feelings of fear, shame and guilt that even when someone tries to help them, they experience this offer of help as a threat because they have completely lost the ability to perceive their own feelings. This is something that happens to children who grow up in radical religious groups” . — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 524
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: A precise mechanism: fear, shame, and guilt train children to read help itself as threat — the erosion of interoception as a control strategy. Dense and worth sitting with.
- XREF: connects to: Religious right childrearing doctrine frames infants as rebels needing force — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 642; Child Evangelism Fellowship deliberately exploits child psychological vulnerability to recruit converts — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 988; Mid-century Catholic schooling instilled visceral death-and-damnation anxiety in young children — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 71 (+1 more)