Episode 799: Kyle Dunshee, New Book, Hope For Others With Mental Health Challenges

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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*** This episode talks about suicide. If you are suicidal, please call/text/chat *988 *** My friend Kyle Dunshee (age 30, married father with new baby, suicide survivor) joins us to share his journey with mental health. Kyle starts with his journey with severe OCD/anxiety which led to a suicide attempt at age 10. Kyle talks about his great parents getting him help—including being institutionalized (helpful experience). Kyle also talks about self-harm and gives insights on why people engage in this behavior and how it is able to put this behind him. Kyle talks a Book of Mormon scripture story that gave him hope and his decision to serve a mission—but the painful/angry experience when he was denied this opportunity. Kyle talks about his pain, anger at the institutional Church, and the deeply spiritual experience in an empty movie theatre watching an R rated movie—a powerful experience where he felt the love of God and a desire to become more active in the Church. Kyle talks about why he decided to resubmit his mission papers and his call to serve in Portland Oregon. Kyle talks about how his mental health is on ongoing part of his life—and why it is (at times) a beautiful struggle. Kyle’s story is in his new book called “At the Bottom of Bountiful” (see show notes). I was so impressed with Kyle’s courage and vulnerability to share his story. It is a powerful story that helps others walking a similar road with mental health issues and those with difficult church experiences who want to stay in the church. I encourage everyone to listen to Kyle’s podcast and read his book so we have more insights to help ourselves and our friends/family working with mental health issues. You are a good man, Kyle. Honored to have you on the podcast. Links: Kyle’s book on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ8Z9RHH Grandpa Thomas Rogers Obituary: www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/deseretnews/name/thomas-rogers-obituary?id=55427103 Kyra Dunshee Podcast: soundcloud.com/user-818501778/episode-293-krista-mortensen-and-kyra-dunshee-sisters-when-your-child-leaves-the-church

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.2	Today, my guest on the podcast is my friend Kyle Dunchie. Welcome to the podcast, Kyle.
0:15.8	Thank you. I appreciate you having me.
0:18.0	Kyle has written a new book. We'll link to it in the show notes called At the Bottom of Bountiful.
0:22.9	And it is his story working through mental illness and then wanting to serve an LDS mission but being denied and the complexity of that.
0:35.5	And then he ended up serving a mission.
0:42.3	But the book really focused on the bottom of Bountiful, this really tough period in Kyle's life where he wanted to serve the organization that he believes in supports and
0:46.6	wants to help people find the hope of the gospel, did not allow him to serve a mission.
0:52.9	So that might be helpful for you, listeners, if you're working through mental health
0:56.8	or have had a curveball or don't quite fit in or in a really tough spot where you're an outlier
1:02.8	in the church because your path is different.
1:05.6	Kyle's story may help you.
1:07.3	Kyle grew up in Davis County.
1:08.9	He's 30.
1:10.3	He's married. Him and his wife just had a baby.
1:14.0	They have a four-month-old. He is in tech support. He's also going to talk about suicide as part of
1:21.6	his story. So there's kind of a trigger warning. We're going to talk about suicide. And we do that
1:26.3	to hopefully give hope to any of you that are suicidal. We said a prayer before we started, and we just hope
1:31.9	that Kyle is so brave to do this, and talk about self-harm, and talk about just the difficult
1:37.6	road he's walked as a really good man with mental health and OCD and not really sometimes
1:43.2	fitting in the mold, that this will help you
1:45.9	if you are walking a similar road or if you're a parent or a leader or a friend and have someone
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