Extreme trauma doesn't kill a human body; rather, it causes a psychic injury that robs a person of their rightful human gifts. Healing is possible. It requires awareness, compassion, & dedication.
Here are foundational facts you can use to help increase awareness.
Contents
Trauma-Based Victimization: A Primer
Trigger Warning
Introduction
Dissociation: A Totally Natural & Universal Process
How Traumatic Memory Works
Parts, Alternate Personalities
A More Visceral Understanding
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Trauma-Based Victimization: A Primer
Terminology — Trauma-based victimization & mind control refer to intentionally-induced trauma for the purposes of manipulation & control. Learn related terminology here.
Foundational Facts (you’re here) — Trauma does not kill a human body, but it can cause profound psychic injury that robs a person of their rightful human gifts. Healing is possible. It requires awareness, compassion, and dedication. Here are foundational facts you can use to help increase awareness.
Prevalence — “The conspiracy of silence about child abuse had become a conspiracy of censorship, even within the profession charged with its treatment.” Thus, curation of research and testimony is critical. Research and reports on the prevalence of extreme abuse and trauma-based victimization includes more than 30 gov’t agencies, churches, and other organizations engaged in or covering up abuse.
Torture & The Science of Mind Control — The targeted person — often a small child — is repeatedly subjected to horrific trauma which causes her to dissociate in order to survive. The dissociated states are then manipulated to control the victim.
Survivor Testimony + Perpetrators — Survivor and therapist testimony, plus professionals who have been convicted, arrested, or identified in court or by officials as perpetrators in abduction and abuse cases.
Healing & Support Resources — “Recovery and healing require examining the relationship with extreme evil, the concepts of free will and coercion, the structure of the mind, and the nature of connectedness.”
Trigger Warning
Nothing here is sensationalized or gratuitous, but it includes frank (and therefore horrific) descriptions and examples of ritual abuse and trauma-based mind control.
If you are in a healthy state of balance, then becoming educated about these monstrous crimes can help you to bear witness for those who have endured unimaginable trauma, preparing you to be a powerful ally for truth, justice and healing.
However, your individual health and healing is of primary importance. In order for the content here to serve a productive purpose, you need to be well-resourced — not re-traumatized. Please be cautious. For information that is less potentially triggering, please see About Trauma or Trauma-Based Victimization: Healing Resources.
Introduction
The subject of trauma-based victimization is horrific, which is exactly why understanding and productive action are vital. A synonym for “horrific” is “unspeakable.” The goal here is to bring light on this in order to change our world so that such horrors are no longer unspeakable, but rather nonexistent.
Addressing colleagues who work with clients who have experienced ritual abuse and mind control, world-renowned expert Alison Miller wrote:
We All Must Pay Attention to Our Vicarious Traumatization
First of all, there is the sheer horror of the memories they are disclosing… You name it, you will hear about it. Your clients need you to be able to hear these memories with calm compassion… We are all traumatized [by the disclosures], especially by the first few clients with these kinds of experiences that we encounter. We have to pay attention to our own vicarious traumatization and make sure we take care of ourselves so that we are not constantly living in a state of trauma.
Alison Miller
Here we explore what exactly happens to victims of trauma-based mind control. Survivors, therapists and whistleblowers have come to learn the science behind trauma-based mind control and know it to be extraordinarily precise and effective. It’s possible (and necessary for supporters) to come to understand how a victim’s mind can be “programmed.” Here is a series of steps for learning how trauma-based mind control works:
Familiarize yourself with the natural process of dissociation.
Learn how traumatic memory works.
Explore the process by which the mind creates alternate states, which many have called personalities but are perhaps better understood as states or “parts.” This is challenging to understand but is made easier through listening to the experiences of survivors and supportive professionals.
Dissociation: A Totally Natural & Universal Process
The foundation for understanding how trauma-based victimization works is understanding how the natural human process of dissociation works.
Dissociation is the essence of trauma. The overwhelming experience is split off and fragmented, so that the emotions, sounds, images, thoughts, and physical sensations related to the trauma take on a life of their own.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
A fundamental part of the human ability to survive trauma is a natural, protective response that dissociates the experience so that the person can endure the pain and horror and continue to go on.
Dissociation is the separation of things that are usually together.
In the case of trauma, dissociation refers to specific psychological processes that naturally happen and change the way a person experiences themselves.
The processes of dissociation are described with various clinical terms and diagnoses such as depersonalization, derealization, dissociative amnesia and dissociative identity disorder.
Dissociation can be viewed as an attempt by the individual to “prevent overwhelming flooding of consciousness at the time of trauma.” [source]
Dissociation… is a psychological and physiological response to childhood trauma…. a normal reaction to an abnormal situation… I like to tell clients that a dissociative disorder is mental injury rather than mental illness and, therefore requires a different treatment.
How Traumatic Memory Works
While a typical memory is of a whole event (sights, sounds, feelings and meaning are all associated), dissociation causes the event to be separated from meaning or feelings, and various parts of the event are stored separately.
Thus, memory recall of dissociated events is unlike typical memory where all associated elements are recalled at once.
Dissociated memories are recalled in fragments, perhaps as a “flash” without the typical context. Sights can be separated from sounds, which can be separated from feelings and so on.
In the case of severe child abuse, “many events are experienced in a state of shock, stored in a dissociative state, and recalled in fragments.” [source]
Over time, survivors may recall enough fragments to piece together the event which caused the mind to dissociate at the time of the trauma.
See Also
Parts, Alternate Personalities
Introduction
Trauma causes “a fragmented sense of identity.”
As a result, a person’s experience changes and may involve what is called: parts, alternate personalities, alters, or multiplicity. These terms (generally synonymous) refer to:
The dissociated states are not fully-formed personalities, but rather represent a fragmented sense of identity… with different identity states remembering different aspects of autobiographical information.
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISST-D)
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), MPD
Due to past traumas, a person’s fragmented sense of self may be strongly separated inside them, causing a state to be unable to recall another.
Different self-states separated by walls of amnesia, so total that one state doesn’t remember what another state has done.
Alison Miller
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was previously called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Expert Alison Miller explains that the name change from MPD to DID was designed to reflect that a person with this disorder is one person who has been fragmented as opposed to different people sharing one body. However, with her characteristic empathy for survivors, Miller explains, that “most who have the disorder feel more as if it is MPD.”
The clinical definition of DID is “the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of one’s behavior. The patient has an inability to recall personal information. The extent of this lack of recall is too great to be explained by normal forgetfulness. The disorder cannot be due to the direct physical effects of a general medical condition or substance. DID entails a failure to integrate certain aspects of memory, consciousness and identity. Patients experience frequent gaps in their memory for their personal history, past and present.” [source]
Coming to Understand
Although the definition of DID explains what multiplicity is (dissociated states), it’s difficult for non-experiencers to understand. Reading survivor accounts seems one of the only ways to really “get” what this process is.
This survivor points out how the process removes awareness and experience from the conscious mind:
My handlers focused a great deal on creating dissociation. Their intentional use of traumatic situations (torture and electrochock) along with psychoactive drugs made it possible for them to selectively disconnect from my conscious mind aspects of awareness or experience; these were contained in dissociated identities, or alters, that they created. The alters would serve other purposes as well.
Trish Fotheringham, survivor
A More Visceral Understanding
The following account is extremely traumatizing — but sensible. It provides a logical and visceral understanding of what must be happening:
Those of us who have not experienced this can only imagine how destructive [the horrific traumas] are to the spirit of the child… As in war, the “choice” presented to the child is “kill or be killed.” … Perpetrator groups know that many children will choose to die rather than to kill, but this really only results in that particular alter being “killed” — tortured to the point of unconsciousness — and a new alter being split off, until the child produces an alter who will do the killing. By now the child — the alter — is likely to kill robotically, with little or no awareness of what it is doing. Abusers will continue to train and refine the alters who do the harm, making sure that they do not feel compassion.
Thus, we learn that while trauma does not kill the human body, it can be used to subject people to soul-shattering experiences and profound psychic injury.
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