Examples of people whose suffer negative emotions when thinking about God:

	People convinced by wrong teaching that God is always angry and harsh.
	Although I don’t think it accurate to view God as having a sexual identity, (after all, he is not sexual – see God’s Gender) some victims of male harshness, or inappropriate behavior by males, think (at least subconsciously) of God as being male in a human sense and this enough to make them feel uncomfortable about getting close to him.
	For others, what creates unease is specifically thinking of God as a father. Obviously, this stems from difficulties in their relationship with their earthly father, but not always because he treated them harshly. Other possibilities include feeling abandoned by their father, or because he acted inappropriately sexually toward them, or solely because of how he treated their mother or their siblings, or simply because he was unreliable, or emotionally cold, or had other character flaws.
	People who, due to an anxiety disorder, regularly feels horrific guilt, no matter how forgiven they are.
	People convinced through repeated experiences beginning from early childhood that no-one could ever love them – God included.
	People wrongly believing they are unforgivable (for help see Feeling Condemned? There’s Hope!).
	People virtually brainwashed into believing they are evil and unredeemable and that God hates them.
	Sincere Christians who, through a bizarre form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, suffer horrific blasphemous thoughts or disgusting mental images whenever they draw near to God.
	Someone whose parents used to mercilessly beat her, day after day after day, to the sound of Christian worship music.
	Someone who had an extreme emotional dependence upon God and then underwent a wilderness experience that she misinterpreted as abandonment. Even though she now realizes God never left her, the deep emotional scar is still healing.
	Someone so horrifically betrayed by Christians and churches that she would suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder whenever she forced herself to enter a church.
	People who, as a child had been drugged and raped by a man dressed up as Jesus, and because of the drug, her young age, and the severe trauma, she was convinced it was Jesus. Although, intellectually, she realizes now that the rapist was not Jesus, it still generates an adverse emotional reaction when she is in God’s presence.