In todays victorian newspaper was an article short and breif ,about the effects of shunning on a person.
1.Giving someone the cold shoulder can make you feel decidedly sorry for yourself. Researchers beleive we feel guilt and suffer from losing a social connection when we ostracise a freind.
2.Tests showed that being shunned,even by a faceless stranger,was upsetting.
3.But complying with the researchers instructions to ignore another person was equally disheartening.
I sent a letter to the editor outlining a religous org.whose official policy is to shun members of their own family if they have been previously baptised and left the faith ,labelling them apostates ,and the heartache,trauma,breakup of familys this has caused for decades .( This is the gist of what I said not word for word ) It will be interesting to see if they publish my letter.
Any comments would be appreciated especially if you have seen this article
smiddy