mockingbird
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This thread is to report to anyone who has any symptoms of stress or trauma that they feel could be from scientology in the form of auditing or training or working in or just being in the cult environment , I want you to know that MANY PTSD symptoms and other stress symptoms are reported by cult experts like Steven Hassan and the late Margaret Singer to be CAUSED by participation in scientology.
There are a lot of technical aspects of this I could start to lay out or try to explain , BUT the important thing for this post to communicate is that this is a VERY COMMON result for scientologists and ex-scientologists , including feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness.
Anxiety , fear , hypervigilance , feeling detached , agitation anxiety , nightmares , losing interest , headaches , and a long list of OTHER mental and physical symptoms are CAUSED by scientology and I want everyone out there who has ANY or A LOT of this to know they are not unique or alone and it's not your fault.
A lot of us are reluctant to trust again after scientology , and some won't go to cult recovery experts or specialists (like those at Freedom of Mind).
I ask you to at least if your in distress or suffering to at least LOOK at some of the tremendous amount of info online , much of it free .
The book THE RAPE OF THE MIND :The Psychology of Thought Control , Menticide and Brainwashing is an excellent start , ( and online free )
I also recommend Freedom of Mind by Steven Hassan ; it really helped me .
I like Jon Atack's many articles online free.
Whatever you do , KNOW your situation is NOT HOPELESS , feeling that is a symptom of cult abuse.
There are a lot of technical aspects of this I could start to lay out or try to explain , BUT the important thing for this post to communicate is that this is a VERY COMMON result for scientologists and ex-scientologists , including feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness.
Anxiety , fear , hypervigilance , feeling detached , agitation anxiety , nightmares , losing interest , headaches , and a long list of OTHER mental and physical symptoms are CAUSED by scientology and I want everyone out there who has ANY or A LOT of this to know they are not unique or alone and it's not your fault.
A lot of us are reluctant to trust again after scientology , and some won't go to cult recovery experts or specialists (like those at Freedom of Mind).
I ask you to at least if your in distress or suffering to at least LOOK at some of the tremendous amount of info online , much of it free .
The book THE RAPE OF THE MIND :The Psychology of Thought Control , Menticide and Brainwashing is an excellent start , ( and online free )
I also recommend Freedom of Mind by Steven Hassan ; it really helped me .
I like Jon Atack's many articles online free.
Whatever you do , KNOW your situation is NOT HOPELESS , feeling that is a symptom of cult abuse.
