Reparative Therapy Helped Me
Reparative Therapy helped me retrain my brain and feel better. My senior year of high school I started having sex with other guys at school and eventually realized I was gay. I ended up coming out to my extremely religious parents, and they took it horribly. A few months after I told them, they said they had found someone who specialized in conversion therapy and could help me overcome these “thoughts and feelings.” At the time I had no idea what conversion therapy was, but I ended up agreeing just so I could attempt to keep some sort of relationship with my parents until I could move out after high school (I was already 18 at the time, but needed to finish school). I ended up doing conversion therapy with this guy through our church …