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In Reply to: True Story about Mind Control posted by CB on January 17, 2007 at 21:48:46:
At one time I asked an SG "Why didn't you just run away?" and the question was NOT meant to imply the person must have wanted to stay. It was to point out that there are factors bigger than having bars around you that make a person stay in any given abusive situation.
This applies to adults and children because the "Stockholm Syndrome" was first discussed after that bank robbery where adults were held captive and became defensive, even, of their captors.
They didn't do this because they were bad but that is where their psyche was at under that kind of pressure.
People did not understand Patty Hearst and what she did and she had to be in jail awhile but she was forcibly taken, raped, held in a closet and felt she would die at any time. So she adapted to her captors and joined them.
Pimps, drug dealers, cultists all recruit people. With cults, sometimes the nature of the beast is quite different from what is presented. For all, there can be a period of coddling, cooing, nurturing at which time dependence is being set up.
Once the person is hooked or under the influence enough, the true nature of the beast begins to show. It reminds me of that TV film on "Human Trafficking where both children and young adults were taken and forced into prostitution and slavery. The adults were wined and dined and treated nicely until they were in a postition to be forcefully raped and psychologically re-wired. THEN once they were in positions to get away, they stayed because there seemed to be no way out. Either they were afraid of being in trouble because of what they had done, even when forced to, or they were afraid of losing relatives, etc.
In a sense, the cult held those sort of things over peoples heads with the threat of breaking families apart or by breaking them apart and then many could feel like obedience was the way to ensure continued communication with loved ones.
There was the "milk" for babes and the "strong meat" for those in longer. There was definitely RAPE in many cases which is extremely degrading and humiliating. Add to that an atmosphere where everyone is telling you that rape is love and your feelings are wrong, not revolutionary, or are based on being weak if you resist.
A person's basic reasoning is turned upside down and inside out. Then when a person manages to leave they look back at what they did while in, whether to themselves and/or to anyone else and they can HATE themselves for it.
I hope professionals study this issue a whole lot more because it occurs on so many levels in society.
As an adult in the family, I even volunteered one time for unwanted SEX because I felt like God was going to kill me for my resistance. The result was there was some relief because I didn't feel like God was waiting to cap my butt for being resistant anymore. OR even worse, in the Family, it was thought that God could take away loved ones for a person's disobedience.
Looking back, it sure was sinister. We all deserve recovery after the cult experience.
