Thank you for caring for this young man and others like him. I can see his and his mom's tenacity and courage. I know they will come out of this stronger and more whole than ever. I could see them using the trauma and intense pain of their experience to help even more people in the long run. I am so inspired by the humility and courage it takes for them to speak out. I hope they know that there is so much depth of love and support for them (that exists from others like us). I hope that Mark can move away from the toxic environment of where he lives now and begin to heal and find a community that he can thrive and feel free to be fully himself.

I deconstructed my entire grid of belief systems (religious and political) because of agonizing traumatic experiences. Religious people caused me to stay in abuse instead of helping me (they hurt me). And I have only been hurt more and also abandoned by them. Losing your entire grid of belief systems is painful. It has been a few years now and it is so good to be on the outside of all of that toxicity, trauma, shame and pain (of the control and brainwashing of religion and political systems).