Search results for query: Ritual abuse

My therapist used that A LOT in the beginning-ish, when i was idenitfying rituals as rituals and could idenitfy what they did as also rituals. Yes, there was a time I didnt not. They were just things I was supposed to do back then and at the time in therapy. He now just calls it a cult and...

Saying it was by a cultist would cover that for me. Since that addresses the perp's mindset & type of abuse & the dynamic, but without specifying larger organized settings. Or, ditto, describing the practices. Cultic / ritualized / sectarian etc descriptors may all have merit. Since that...

...- my mother is a clinical psychologist specialising in working with adults who suffered sexual abuse as children. She uses the term "ritual abuse" to describe the systematic ritualised abuse that is often seen in a cult environment, but does also occur in the absence of a actual cult...

Its ok about my mom. I mean, its insanity, but i just mean...im not like all devistated, though, I think, my "inner child" is. Moreso for the hope "she" (not a seperate identity, i dont have DID) was the part of me that held out that hope that my mom would "come around". And she did create a...

Omg, that's it exactly. Reenacting until it's processed, until I'm enured to the memory. Looking at images repeatedly and as long as I can to test my limits, ie how long it takes me to break. I can see I've been doing this in diff forms my entire life- abusive men, drugs, alcohol, chaos- but...

Im no expert , can only share my experience and i think it is a risk factor. My T and previous Counsellor think so too. I was only diagnosed this year, i have a succesful career and most people 'outside looking in' would not have a clue. Ive been able to create coping mechanisms for years - hid...

Just found out that my older sister (7 years older) was abused my my dad too. She isn't his biological daughter. She was 4 when my mom and dad got married. I asked her what she remembers about daddy and she told me. Her memories seem "g" rated compared to what's in my head. She never asked...

Remember that you are grouping "takers" and "abusers" into one group and that isnt always the case. Are all abusers takers? Id say yes. Are all takers abusers? Nope. One of my neighbors borrows money from my step mom. She never pays it back. She asks for rides all the time to places and...

...is hauntingly beautiful. Thank you for posting. This is the first time I'm posting/replying as I just registered here last week. I am a ritual abuse survivor. I found out my son is transgender last month. How long he's been living in emotional pain and hatred of himself utterly breaks my...

I do not have a therapist at all. I had one who I really liked but it came to a point where I didn't feel she was helping me anymore. I'm just really confused. Because I really do NOT think I was RA (ritually abused). But I DO know I was RA (religiously abused and spiritually) from birth until I...

I'm sorry. RA is Ritual Abuse. http://ra-info.org/faqs/ Thanks for the support. Means a lot to me. And no, the spaceship is not a place I went to I don't think. Yes traumas from small age until I was 21

I read it as ritual abuse. And because I know something about ritual abuse, I'm sorry but I can't in good conscience answer the question. It you were abused in that way you likely have layers of programming in place to keep you from remembering... or from remembering and still being all right...

My parents took us to a Community Church where the golden rule was the basis of the mission. We didn't have rituals or fear control. We were simply taught to treat everyone the way we would like to be treated. Of course, there sat my abusive drunk of a father and a mother that allowed his reign...

I grew up in a very conservative, Christian, right-wing household and extended family culture. The patriarchal system served to silence those of us who were being abused while enabling the abusers access and authority to harm others. It has taken me a long time to recover from the religious...

@hogananjiggs You are welcome here.:hug: Others here have been subjected to cult abuse as you can see. You believe you will go to Hell because they told you that. They lied. They said that to cause fear and to control your mind. Do you have DID? Are you receiving help?

...the ages of 6-8 as well. I seem to have dissociative identities. There are other people of sorts in my head. This is not Satanic ritual abuse, admittedly. But I ought to be able to kind of understand some of what you've been through. Particularly the shame. ...I keep having to fight that...

So I survived satanic ritual abuse. It happened beetween 5 and 7 yes old. Right now I wish I didn't survive I'm haunted every day. My shame button is the size of a dinner table I would so love peace so I could be useful to my wife and kids. I'm working and it's difficult alot and I'm so tired at...

Well - your therapist is probably working his own angle on how to keep you from minimizing your own abuse. But the definition flat-out matters, because there are people who are held, in international arenas, by terrorists or terror organizations, and tortured. That's 100% pure, grade-A, by the...

I agree with that now. I easily get myself confused, apparently, and so I think I was defining it pretty ok at the beginning but then started to question where abuse becomes torture but @Cashew i think had the best answer the second time where I understood, a line drawn on many swords or many...

hello guys ! i am new here , i just want to know if i actually have complex ptsd i suffered from emotional abuse from my parents for like 5 years because i refused to study medicine which was their dream , it was a petty reason and that is why i was so shocked , i noticed how they changed he...

Figured out that the colors in the room were part of the ritual abuse. Did not know that colors were used deliberately and why I associate the colors with the flashbacks from the ritual abuse but not the CSA at home. The dreams and the colors in those that I still don't understand and how they...

...continues to affect me. I am having difficulty integrating. I should go to therapy for this but am distrustful and now see why. Group/ritual abuse. They have people hidden in the public and I am afraid of who I may be talking to. Paranoid. Can't trust people to not take advantage of the...

...he was likely hurt in the same way and kept it going with his own children from being damaged. I am unable to remember much from the ritual abuse, which is surfacing years into processing parental abuse traumas. Because it was a ring, I am aware that others must have been hurt and feel...

Yes. One step at a time. What has helped me is my trauma therapist and having support...this site being my only support. I broke through the cult beliefs and just working my way to the core of that. But one tiny step at a time and having a good trauma therapist is my best advise. Its a...

Anyone whose parent hurt them via incest and also by placing them into a ritual abuse circle? :( They used elecrtrocution, colors, brainwashing statements, symbols to induce a DID kind of system. I can't go any further than that right now. What is helpful when healing from this kind of...