Timothy S. Rodriguez

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310 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Sounds Like A Cult · The Cult of Conversion Therapy · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Initially, I was always told like, well, that's because they fell away.

But I started to learn that a lot of the substance abuse and depression and a lot of the things that they were struggling with weren't the result of them embracing their sexuality.

It was the result of all of the toxic things that they learned about themselves in conversion therapy that led them to those destructive ends.

And because going into conversion therapy, you know, it was therapy, it was talk therapy.

And so for a lot of them, when they got out of conversion therapy, they were scared to go back into a therapeutic space because that had been violated for them.

And so they really were neglecting to get the real help that they needed to do to integrate themselves after being told to erase or disintegrate so much of themselves for so long.

I mean, so those Hollywood archetypes of it aren't wrong.

They're just the minority of what conversion therapy looked like.

For me, initially, there were no groups for me to go to because I was in the middle of Illinois.

And so I had to join this online support group that was a forum out of this organization in Dallas, Texas that still exists today.

And so it was just me on a message board.

This is like early 2000s.

So like very like web 1.0.

But I was on this forum and I was interacting with people, but it was completely controlled.

Like we weren't allowed to exchange contact information.

This was like right around the time that AOL Instant Messenger came around.

We weren't allowed to share our Instagrams.

It was a very controlled, like we could only post what the moderators could read.

But it was also the first time I read other stories like mine or felt I was connecting with other people who shared a similar experience.

And so there was that end to it.

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