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Originally Posted by jigsaw44
Q. What was the breaking point of you LC kids. It breaks my heart to see y'all still inflicted after all these years. I know LC parents are super strict with kids in regards to socializing and activities like sports or entertainment. But what exactly would you LC kids say is the biggest source of pain and torment for LC kids growing up. Is it the constant berating of how "wOrLdLy" things are how sinful every little thing is? Or perhaps witness doctrine being ingrained into your mind? What exactly is the source of all this pain from LC kids? It truly breaks my heart and only share if you want to. Im just appalled of how terrible some of you are still feeling from the LC after all these years. What in the heck was the factor that led to all this misery?
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I'm happy to answer this, thanks for asking! I think it's the powerlessness, and then everything stems from that. As minors we are under the control of our parents, financially and emotionally. Our parents require us to follow the LC doctrine, so the doctrine dictates our lives. The strict rules our parents enforce, both through punishments and shaming, are enforced and encouraged by all adults in our lives, because all adults our parents allow around us are LC people. The Recovery isn't well known, so complaining to people outside of it isn't very productive. At the same time, the brainwashing takes the power to dissent and think critically away from us. There is no escape, we learn. We are rebellious and wanting to leave is our natural sinful nature coming out. This is drilled into us. Sometimes it takes all the way through college and even grad school to experience the outside world enough to realize something is wrong. Then it takes therapy to overcome the brainwashing. Then you realize you're isolated from the world around you. Leaving the church leaves you isolated, because the church isolated you for so long. You have no friends. If your family is in the church, you don't have them. If they aren't, you don't have them either because they won't believe their own family members did this to you. And you don't have a relationship with them anyway because your parents kept you away from them, emotionally if not physically.