Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Yeah, I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut about my sexuality because my religion (Mormon/LDS) still practices electroshock torture for ‘fixing the gay’. I maintained my silence out of sheer terror that the people I was supposed to trust would want to hurt me that way.
Now that I am stronger, I will not forgive and I will not forget. Nor will I remain silent any longer.
Did you leave the Mormon church. I hear leaving comes with issues too.
Glad you were smart and aware about what could happen. My parents were not happy I was gay and thought it was a mental illness and that my friends were teaching me to be gay. None of my friends were gay. I had to make new gay friends. I was able to keep one old friend but lost all the other friends I had before I come out.
Being an atheist on top of that was the cherry on top of it all.
Oh, yes I left it behind long ago, never quite really believed any of it, although I conformed for social survival. All it took to leave was complete social suicide, I left behind my entire family for a few years (have since reconnected with the good ones). I lost all my friends from before the age of 30. It was an incredible cost. Fuck everything they stand for.
Sorry that happen to you. Glad you were able to get away from it.
I was happier with gay friends I could talk to about things. But my parents came around. They still were not happy but knew there was nothing that they could do. I was an adult and supporting myself.