In the midst of all of the difficult news that has happened in the past few weeks, you may have missed the update that some Christians believed that the Rapture was scheduled to take place on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
Of course, seeing that it is now September 29th when we are publishing this, the Rapture did not, in fact, happen. Or if it did, it took far fewer people than expected, as precisely zero families have reported losing their loved ones to the heavens.
What some families are reporting, however, is their own shared and lived experience growing up in families who sincerely believed the Rapture was going to happen — and how the belief that they would see their loved one suddenly whisked away affected them as young children.
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Other influencers have shared similar experiences.
While not all other influencers are parents, like Hamilton is, many have taken to social media to explain how rapture anxiety is a very real thing that can affect people even long after they’ve grown up.
One influencer even described how, although he has since left his religion, growing up in a fundamentalist religion, he now “freaks out a little” every time there is a new Rapture prediction.
“It got in young,” he noted.
“This was my biggest fear as a child,” added another TikTok commentr on a different video about rapture anxiety. “Nothing else was worse than feeling like I was going to go to hell if I made a mistake.”
Some of the TikToks have shared humor about the Rapture, while others have simply shared their own experiences, but as Hamilton alluded to in her post, the experience could deeply affect a child, or even a teen or adult later in life, so many in her comments section did encourage her followers to seek professional mental health if needed.
Any type of anxiety that is affecting someone’s ability to function on a daily basis warrants at least a conversation with a mental health professional.
