#754 Name Hidden. CS: 5
When I was 3 years old and finishing my last year in nursery before going to Sunbeams I can vividly remember a Sunday at church the has affected my life…
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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.
#755 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,7,8
I was raised LDS and when I was 14 I felt I needed to talk to the bishop about my first sexual experience because I believed that God could only…
#756 Name Hidden. CS: 6,7,8
Too much to share… decades of shame due to a couple of choices I made. The very thought of Bishop interviews give me anxiety. I always believed it was a…
#757 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
I accidentally discovered masturbation right after I turned 12, and I engaged in the act just one time. Shortly thereafter, the bishop told the parents of the ward that they…
#758 Diane B. CS: 1,2,3,5,6,7. Other: PTSD
Was born and raised in the Mormon Church in Provo Utah. I have been questioned inappropriately by Bishops since age 8. When I was 12 years old, My Bishop’s name…
#759 Mike T. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9
For my entire life, I was taught that obedience to counsel was of utmost importance. This teaching alone is dangerous. If the counsel reeks of guilt and shame, there is…
#760 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,6,8
I was 21 when this happened, so I wasn’t a child except in the sense that my extremely conservative parents kept me purposely “innocent” without teaching me about sex or…
#761 Name Hidden. Other: Scheidung, Depressionen…
lieber bro Sam, … wir, meine Frau, ich und unsere zwei kleine Kinder waren erst ein paar Jahren Mitglieder der Kirche LDS, auch mit Tempel Siegelung. davor hatten wir mit…
#762 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8
I have my own story of shame and acceptance of abuse instigated by inappropriate questions and shaming from a bishop when I was a teen but, today I’m sharing my…
#763 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,8
At BYU-Hawai’i, while a student, I came out as gay to my bishop. His response was to ask me detailed questions about what I liked to think about and imagine…
#764 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,8
I finally had the courage to confess my “sins.” I sat in the bishops office shaking, explaining that I had a messed up. He asked detailed, explicit questions that I…
#765 Katy K. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I grew up in the church. I vividly remember sitting through a Young Women’s lesson one Sunday when I was 15 or 16. The lesson was on chastity. Our well…
#766 Taylor R. CS: 1,3,4,6
I was a sophomore attending BYU. I believe my Bishop was a good man with good intentions. He was merely following the inappropriate interview guidelines given to him. I was…
#767 Tate. CS: 1,3. Other: Loss of trust
While my story is not nearly as horrible as others on here I’ll tell mine to help add to this book. I was 18 and had a girlfriend. We did…
#768 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,8
When I was freshly out of high school I was sexually assaulted. I hadn’t been active in the church in sometime but thought maybe a bishop could help give me…
#769 Name Hidden. CS: 1
I was a naive 19 year old attending Ricks College in Rexburg Idaho and feeling guilty after a makeout session with my boyfriend which involved him touching my breasts. No…
#770 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8. Other: Repeated self harm as part of guilt
My youth leader took a different route. One day in Deacon’s quorum he asked all of us “Do you know what jacking off is?” He sort of made a hand…
#771 Name Withheld. CS: 1,4,6
As a 15 year old young woman, I had a boyfriend that was sexually and emotionally abusive. It took me a long time to get out of the relationship because…
#772 Andy A. CS: 1,3,8
My story may not apply here, as it happened as an adult. As my fiancé and I prepared for our temple marriage we struggled to keep the rules of morality.…
#773 Leah S. CS: 1,4
When I was 12 I had a “worthiness interview” from my local Bishop to enter the temple. He asked me explicit questions about my chastity. In particular, he asked if…