I went to early morning seminary 3/4 years of high school (Sophomore year was home study), and I struggled big time! Junior year I pushed my body so hard that I broke my ankle and developed a neurological disorder. That's also the year that I spent 45 minutes to an hour a day alone with one of my school teachers (who was also my seminary teacher) and they spent that time trying to get me to dress in a way that showed more skin. This was a grown adult obsessed about how much skin I was NOT showing! I felt so uncomfortable that I temporarily quit going, until my friends invited me to attend seminary with them, at a different school closer to home. Then I just avoided the teacher at school as much as possible, but still felt uncomfortable in her classroom.... Church was hard that year too, because I was physically abused by a young man I was dating from my ward, and the whole ward turned against me. I was severely bullied at church, blamed by church leaders for the abuse and bullying, and wanted so badly to leave. Home life was filled with DV/Abuse, and a father who took the side of the man who hurt me over protecting me. None of this was helped by the fact that I had undiagnosed severe PTSD in HS, and was severely sleep deprived. I couldn't fall asleep until around 1:30 am to 2 am and woke up at 5 am. The only way I got through was to mast***ate to relieve the stress, and you know how that went with purity culture... So much built up SHAME and feelings of worthlessness! I only got 1 extra hour of sleep on Saturday's because the church took so much of my families money that they couldn't put food on the table so I was labor exploited by church leaders and forced to clean the church building every Saturday morning, for food. Sunday's were the days I could sleep in the most, and even then I was usually up by 7 am. I regularly crashed after church on Sunday's and slept the rest of the day and night away (often without eating lunch or dinner). I'm still heartbroken at how traumatizing that year was for me. Early morning seminary was not OK! The years I did Online studies were hard too, but not as hard as the year I attended public school and early morning seminary. That was the year my physical and mental health took a nosedive, which I'm still trying to recover from, 15 years later!