How monotheist parents weaponize psychology and psychiatry against their pagan, atheist, and LGBTQ children

    Table of Contents

If your parents are monotheists, they may be against modern secular psychology and psychiatry, or they may be for it but with a religious twist.  Here is what your monotheist parents do; once they realize you are polytheist, atheist, or LGBTQ, they begin a systematic campaign to destroy you and your mental health. If your parents do not try to convince you you are possessed by demons they will say you are mentally unstable and have multiple brain and personality disorders.  Depending on where they stand they will either deny you secular psychology and psychiatry, or they will force religious therapy down your throat and medicate you to the point you are in a waking comma. 

Let's say your parents hate psychologists and psychiatrists and think they are satanic.  These parents will likely accuse you of being possessed.  If you ever make the mistake of telling them you are depressed they will say it is because you are spiritually sick.  Their remedy will be more religion, more hatred, more absurdities, and more social restrictions.  Some children have organic mental health issues.  Let's say you have people in your close family with mental illness, like depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia. These are often caused by genes and can be inherited. If your parents are more anti-science, they will ignore any scientific evidence which points to the possibility of innate organic mental illness that stems from a chemical imbalance caused by genetics.  They will say the only reason why mental illness exists is because people are spiritually weak and not following god's ways. If you have had the misfortune to have inherited childhood schizophrenia, but are aware your hallucinations are not real, yet want medication to make them go away, you will be denied and told this is caused by demonic possession and not any organic brain dysfunction.  Also, if you ask to see a psychologist you will be reprimanded and and punished and get a lecture on the evils of satanic secular psychology which has no relevance to god your parents will claim. 

However, there may be the other side of the coin. Your parents may immediately bring you to psychiatrists and psychologists and try to get you diagnosed with all kinds of mental disorders. They will say you have a defiance personality disorder and a problem with authority and attachment to your parents.  They will get your diagnosed and use this against you, having their certificate that you are mentally ill, now they have the right to totally restrict everything you do and watch you like a hawk.  The slightest of slipups, any hint of emotional uptick in response to injustice will be taken as a sign of a flareup in your mental illness and the need for more therapy and control.  Additionally, your parents may seek out monotheist-based counseling centers where you will be further indoctrinated and exposed to hateful and ridiculous rhetoric.  Sometimes these counselors and your parents will make a mixed diagnosis of mental illness and and demon possession. 

Once they have you pinned as mentally ill, your parents may begin heavily medicating you, that is if they don't believe psychiatry is sorcery.  Your parents will likely prefer sedatives to keep you down rather than anti-depressants which may elevate your mood.  Mood stabilizers with exhausting effects may also be used. It may become hard to function normaly under heavy medication and your parents will claim this is evidence of further mental decline and demon possession. If your monotheist parents have their way, you will be diagnosed and medicated and ready to be dumped in an institution by the time you are 18.  This is all they want for their non-monotheist children.  

Monotheists often weaponize psychology and psychiatry against their polytheist, atheist, and LGBTQ children. They may withhold counseling and medication from you, or they may abuse psychology to get you diagnosed and sedated on drugs. If you feel your parents are withholding care from you or are abusing the medical system to isolate and persecute you, you need to talk to adults at school or anywhere you can find them.  This is a very difficult situation and you need help and guidance.  Your parents may use your induced malaise as an excuse to keep you away from society so this may be hard, but if you can get someone to listen there is hope.