Allison Josephs’s piece, “Healing from Within,” about the correlation between OTD kids and emotional neglect, is still drawing significant and impassioned feedback
I love reading articles about our OTD children and teens at risk. It is so fascinating reading about myself. I would like to address a few points from within.
One of the main reasons we humans stay so dependent on our parents for many years is that we should learn from our relationship with them how to have a relationship with Hashem.
It is often brought down that Hashem is like our father. Now for people like me who have never experienced parents as loving — if anything, just the opposite — we are predisposed to view Hashem as chas mil’hazkir very unforgiving, out to punish us for everything. Moreover, our perception is that He doesn’t really care about us anyway since He gave us such a difficult life, so why try to please Him at all?
My guess is that most of us don’t really have an issue when it comes to faith and belief in Hashem; we just don’t really know who the real Hashem is at all. That could definitely be healed by a healthy attachment.
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