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Random question but was wondering if anyone has any experience with leaving a cult/the trauma of one?
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Whole this section, or a search function.
I think this has been about covered multiple times.
Edited to add: I think being more concrete about the question beyond the Anyone else? might do good. Since that one was covered already, so some depth or what concretely about exiting and from which groups you are looking at might be more useful as starting a thread.
I think this has been about covered multiple times.
Edited to add: I think being more concrete about the question beyond the Anyone else? might do good. Since that one was covered already, so some depth or what concretely about exiting and from which groups you are looking at might be more useful as starting a thread.
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Does anyone have knowledge of cult dynamics in particular ones based in spiritual abuse? and or how to regain oneself after dealing with a cult that was dependent on finding out your secrets and vulnerabilities and pressing on them to mold someone, and use it as leverage for terror?
EveHarrington
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Are you talking about your online experience?
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Eve why do you keep invalidating me?
my online events didn't cause my diagnosis just further ignited events and flashbacks this is therapist approved
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Yes, but I think it depends on what age you were while in the cult. Is this you you are speaking of?
I think this is a given. This is what cults do.
Only when one misbehaves and doesn't fanatically and without question adhere to the inculcation of the cult.
More information would be helpful.
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strangely enough my descent in the cult involved me trying to find my abuser online only to end up in the grips of some weird cult that I believed he was apart of
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yes but same dynamics
Chiqui
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Have you seen this book, "Combatting Cult Mind Control" from Steve Hassan?
It helped me a lot.
It helped me a lot.
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@TommySunlight - I've merged your two threads on this, since the topic is the same.
Regaining oneself after cult immersion is, in essence, the re-building (or building for the first time) a set of core beliefs that are positive and healthy - while dismantling the core beliefs that contribute to one's suffering.
Oftentimes, dealing with the trauma event that caused the PTSD is necessary, before one can really effectively re-build one's core beliefs. At least, it's something that can be done concurrently.
You've written about the sexual abuse you endured when you were much younger elsewhere on the forum. Forgive me, but I can't recall if the first incident was an ongoing abuse or a singular event. In any case, that's the thing that you are ultimately going to have to start addressing, somehow.
Otherwise: anything you try and do, as far as deeper work is concerned - like, say what you're asking about here, how to do self-reconstruction post-cult - is likely going to be hampered by the negative core beliefs that started forming as a result of the first traumatic incident.
If the childhood sexual abuse was in any way traumatic for you, when it happened - it would have affected your personality development in some way. You were still a kid. This would be true whether or not you developed PTSD as a result of that specific incident.
Have you talked with your therapist about any of that stuff?
Our sense of self is made up of what we believe about ourselves - those are called 'core beliefs'.
Regaining oneself after cult immersion is, in essence, the re-building (or building for the first time) a set of core beliefs that are positive and healthy - while dismantling the core beliefs that contribute to one's suffering.
Oftentimes, dealing with the trauma event that caused the PTSD is necessary, before one can really effectively re-build one's core beliefs. At least, it's something that can be done concurrently.
You've written about the sexual abuse you endured when you were much younger elsewhere on the forum. Forgive me, but I can't recall if the first incident was an ongoing abuse or a singular event. In any case, that's the thing that you are ultimately going to have to start addressing, somehow.
Otherwise: anything you try and do, as far as deeper work is concerned - like, say what you're asking about here, how to do self-reconstruction post-cult - is likely going to be hampered by the negative core beliefs that started forming as a result of the first traumatic incident.
If the childhood sexual abuse was in any way traumatic for you, when it happened - it would have affected your personality development in some way. You were still a kid. This would be true whether or not you developed PTSD as a result of that specific incident.
Have you talked with your therapist about any of that stuff?
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