The problem with Christian Science is that, even when people ARE kind and caring, they often can't be kind and caring on what I call a "gut level." They may care about you, but when you are sick they instinctively put up emotional walls as they "know" your perfection. They can't validate your emotional needs because they can't acknowledge that your problem is real. And you can't really pour your heart out to them (as sick people sometimes need to do becaue they need for someone to understand what they are going through) because you know that the Christian Scientist either doesn't want to hear it or will instinctively block out (or simply minimize) what you are saying. The emotional walls built in Christian Science are subtle but powerful, even when those walls are built between nice people who really think they're caring about each other.

I can't speak to how specific Christians treated you since I didn't see it. But I do suspect that their attitude toward you was different from what I'm talking about with Christian Scientists. Christian Scientists negate a person's present reality and emotional needs by essentially saying (thinking, acting as if, etc.) "the problem you think you are having is not real. It is no part of you. Don't feel the way you are feeling. If you would just correct your thinking, you wouldn't be seeming to suffer." CSists misunderstand, or refuse to even acknowledge, much of what makes a person who they are on a daily basis. That's different from the salvation issue; Christians don't deny the reality of a person's human experience, regardless of whether they think that person is going to heaven or hell.