3rdgen: You're welcome, but really the thanks goes to all of you that have shared your personal experiences and feelings in response to my OP. Your accounts are both riveting reading and heart-breaking, especially because it is all so unnecessary.
What a shame. The organization that so many of us believed would lead us to happiness in fact is the direct cause of so much sadness, despair and suffering.
I wish there was some way to force the GB members to read these accounts and to acknowledge their responsibility. They need to have their faces rubbed in it. It is truly outrageous. Their culpability is only exceeded by their willful resistance to accept responsibility and to admit error. It is beyond shameful. I am at a loss to describe how I truly feel ...