#824 Anna. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7. Other: Severe religious PTSD and public shaming
My story has layers of complexity, but I’ll do my best to share it. I’ll start out with the simple facts of being asked about masturbation as a teen some…
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Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):
- Inappropriate shame and guilt
- Childhood self-loathing
- Adulthood self-loathing
- Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
- Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
- Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
- Years of recovery from childhood shaming. Often lasting decades.
- Suicide Ideation
- Attempted Suicide
- Suicide of a loved one or friend.
#823 Name Hidden. CS: 5
The identify of the people involved in the following account have been omitted to protect the privacy of those involved. Those wishing to verify this submission may contact Sam, who…
#822 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,8
I felt impressed to tell my own story although I was a couple years older than a legal minor. I grew up in the Church. I was blessed to have…
#821 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. Other: Fear of relationships with the opposite sex.
The worthiness interviews containing questions of a sexual nature drove me to avoid relationships with the opposite sex out of fear of sinning for my entire young adult life. I…
#820 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,7
I started masturbating when I was maybe 13 years old after reading about it in a book about puberty and learning about it at school. I was simply curious. It…
#819 Name Hidden. CS: 1
When I lived in the Apple Valley area of California, I decided to go to my bishop after speaking with my dad about my sexual activity as a teen. In…
#818 Jessica F. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
When I turned eight years old, my parents took me to the bishop’s office to have my baptism interview. Before I went into the room, I asked my parents if…
#817 Crystal H. CS: 1,4
My 12 year old daughter went into the bishops office for her 12-year-old interview. I joined her. After the friendly and brief interview we asked if she could go ahead…
#816 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
My Mormon story: growing up in Utah you had to be Mormon to be able to play with your friends. So i had been baptized around 4th grade. I took…
#815 Name Julie S. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. Other: Depression, anxiety, PTSD
My heart just breaks. I was subjected to these interviews as a youth. I had endured many years of sexual abuse as a child beginning at the age of 4.…
#814 Name Hidden. CS: 4
When I was 14 or 15 I was asked if I had, had an organism after answering a question about chastity. I didn’t even know what that was, and had…
#813 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5,7
When I turned 14, I was like any normal child. We had moved to a new town, and I was finding my footing. I went to a youth dance for…
#812 Name Hidden. CS: 1
40 years ago or more, I was interviewed on several occasions by my stake president. He was a big tall man and a man of influence. He eventually became a…
#811 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Anger that I let my power as a mother be taken from me so easily, without a fight. Anger that the Bishop thought he could keep me out of the interview.
Hello, I am not sure if this story is being shared in the appropriate place. But I wanted my thoughts to go with Sam to his probable excommunication. When my…
#810 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7. Other: Physical neglect from parents who could not recover mentally from their own abuse.
Something that I realized I needed to share was the generational effect of abuse victims. My father was raised in incestuous Mormon family. His father, the predator was at one…
#809 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Self abuse
My childhood was very painful. This was not necessary the fault of the Mormon church, but rather my biological father was/is pedophile and abused me sexually, multiple times. Which lead…
#808 Name Hidden. CS: 4
As a young man nearing the age of 12, I was interviewed by my bishop and asked if I masturbated. I didn’t know what that meant. My parents had taught…
#807 Amy C. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I was born and raised in the LDS church in Las Vegas, NV. I began worthiness interviews with my bishop at the age of 12 as it was expected of…
#806 Chelsea T. CS: 1,2,3,4,8
I didn’t find out that masturbation was a sin until my bishop had a fireside for the youth. After that I felt extreme guilt because I couldn’t stop. I honestly…
#805 Madison H. CS: 1,3,4,6,7,8
As a child I would have these one on one interviews with bishops behind closed doors. The sexual questions began when I was a teenager. Very uncomfortable considering I wasn’t…