He also convinced her not to tell her family because if they accepted her as a lesbian she would not change and go to hell. As a devoted, impressionable girl, Alana listened to that priest.
Alana endured 7 traumatic years of this miseducation, “pastoral counseling,” conversion therapy, and religious abuse, which resulted in years of severe depression, self-harming and extreme suicidal ideation.
When Alana’s parents discovered her great suffering, they got her the help she needed through inpatient and outpatient therapies, and several specialized therapies.