“Religious women who stop attending services are three times more likely to experience generalized anxiety and abuse alcohol than women who continue their religious activity, reports a January study in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (Vol. 43, No. 1).

“What’s more, women who’d been religious since childhood exhibit the lowest incidence of mental illness compared with women who cease public religious activity and those who weren’t religious as children.

“However, the study found the opposite effect among men: Those who attended religious activities as children and continued as adults were at higher risk for major depression than men who had ceased public religious activity.”

I think you’re right on the sense of reality score – family is meant to grant you stability not leave you second-guessing your world.

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