MesaUnited States

Mesa, Arizona has the largest LDS population outside Utah-Idaho, with the Mesa Temple as one of the oldest temples in the Church. The east valley of metro Phoenix is heavily LDS, and the leaving experience shares many features of the Mountain West LDS exit, layered with the Sun Belt cultural backdrop and a more religiously mixed surrounding metro.

Elder X has been through the religious exit himself — the family rupture, the guilt that would not stop, the psych wards, the isolation of being the person nobody in your family understands anymore. If you are in Mesa and that description lands, reach out. Not therapy. Personal advice from someone who made it to the other side.