How to talk about a dilemma in the past tense?
Solution 1:
It would be nice to have a transitive verb from dilemma but dictionary search produces none. You might consider the more conventional divided conscience
Here is one example of many to be found online. This one uses the phrase in the title and implies its involvement with dilemmas within the following text.
Dostoevskii and the Divided Conscience
In the decade between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, many of the Russian radical intelligentsia believed that Dostoevskii had anticipated their moral dilemmas…
Cambridge University Press