Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

  • meyotch@slrpnk.netOP
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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          10 months ago

          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.