I had same experience. Following religion simply made things more complicated for me. If I worship particular god his or her rival god will get angry at you. What the what? I am already having hard time dealing with real people around me and now have to please imaginary beings who might have rivalry among themselves?
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I get by without religion by knowing all life is fleeting, brief and precious. You only have one shot at it so you may as well try and make the most of it. Good and bad happens to us all indiscremitely, no one got bad events happen to them because they did something wrong and deserve punishment. Equally you donāt have good things happen to you because you are amazing and deserve it. Life is random for everyone. But my attitude doesnāt mean Iām alone. I put my attention on the here and now. I try to cherish every experience. I love animals and I love people.
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I canāt really claim to be a hard A atheist anymore after my psychotic break, I just donāt quite know what weird things could possibly occur in reality. I donāt really go out of my way to believe that thereās much of anything going on spiritually. I donāt think this is anything other then an illness.
I donāt think Iām being persecuted for sins, I donāt think Iām less fortunate then someone with an illness like a cut off leg, or a paraplegic who is stuck being a head on a body. I suffer through negative symptoms and they suck but Iām very well treated for my positive symptoms and my family is helping me quite a bit and while Iām poor, I think I have enough guts to fight for my life if my housing situation changes.
Iām going to dreadfully miss my parents. I donāt know how that phase of my life is going to be, but I thinkā¦ I think I know that my parents are ready for their time to come and arenāt going to have regrets that I canāt help them work through.
I wish I knew more about my family and I wish I had a better memory for what my extended family is because my mom and dad are really my life line to all those people. I donāt know how to contact them and I do wish I could know more about everyone in the family.
I agree. Religion is useless to me. Iām far too analytical, and at no point does any of it make sense.
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I believe in a higher power, and in the supernatural, but donāt view myself as āreligious.ā What I do to ease my suffering is: stay on my medication, talk with my doctor regularly, eat healthy foods, exercise daily, practice mindfulness, and accept my limitations. Accepting limitations is extremely important. Without acceptance, I would always be comparing myself to more able-minded people, and this would eat me alive. Iām not perfect at it yet. There are days where I think: āOh, I should be doing more. All the other normal people can do so much more. Why canāt I? Iām a failure, blah, blah, blah.ā
I found a good quote recently. āIt doesnāt matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop.ā (by Confucius)
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Spirituality. You donāt necessarily need religion.
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Try writing Haiku.
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You donāt have to be religious to believe in an afterlife.
Iām agnostic but I think thereās something after. I just donāt follow any books or messiahs or dogma or ritual. That is, no religion.
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I believe all it takes is making true friends with oneself.
The rest will fall into place 
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Spite.
Unwavering raging fires of spite that I wonāt let this beat me.
Some days are harder than others, sometimes I get weak, but I try to fight it.
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Preach on.
Iām a spiteful brat, too. Iāll go to my grave a ball of rage.
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Spite is not good. I understand it is a human condition though.
I have not been religious for a year now, to see, if that was the cause and effect.
Found that if there is no religious thoughts, something else takes its place, like conspiracy theory. I am from so and so.
Hence, I get through suffering with meds and have a peace of mind, by not carrying the burden of the world on my shoulders. Which is already done.
With Hope, Faith and Belief. It makes me move forward in life, why not choose both, when one becomes normal.
Like Tom, I believe only after a touch? How many more times I should touch.
Seconding this.
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I get through it by being partially religious. The Old Testament God makes a lot more sense to me for reasons other than being all that wonderful.
I am very happily Catholic. God literally carried me through my sonās death ten years ago.
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You fight and seek knowledge
Like this,
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I take whatās true from each religion. You could say Iām a universalist.
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Writing and maintaining a journal
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