1. Mental health condition suffered by the overly religious whereby the religious, actively deny treatment or medications to facilitate increased suffering.
2. The imposition of suffering, denial of treatment, or services, to those who you are responsible to
care for with the expressed intent of increasing misery or hastening
death. (see betrayal trauma)
3. The imposition of religious beliefs to increase suffering in the efforts to elicit
pleasure in the person denying, or reserving access to treatment or services.
When I presented the case for a need for an antidepressant to my
doctor, after my mom died, he got all 'Mother
Teresa Syndrome" on me and said, "You need to experience this without
drugs so you can grieve properly."