Recovery from MIND CONTROL

HOW DO PEOPLE GET OUT OF RELIGIOUS CULTS?

Different people leave in different ways. Some WALK out. Some get KICKED out. Some cult members just BURN OUT. Others GROW out. Still others FIND OUT or get COUNSELED out.

WALK OUTS

These people simply rebel from the situation and leave.

Unless they shed the mind control, walk-outs may lead destructive or fear-filled lives.

Some adopt the attitude that since they couldn't measure up to the system's requirements, there isn't any hope for them anyway, so they might as well "live it up" while they can.

Some develop patterns of living that they wouldn't have chosen otherwise.

KICKED OUTS

These people are excommunicated or shunned for a variety of reasons, usually related to the fact that they failed to fully integrate the four aspects of mind control--information control, thought control, emotion control and behavior control.
People who are kicked out of cults are commonly filled with grief and guilt. They are still very loyal to the group's beliefs and its people, even though rejected by the group.

BURN OUTS

These people have been so abused spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally and financially, that they are barely able to function on a normal basis.

Some :burn-outs" exhibit the Post-Traumatic Stress syndrome that is commonly experienced by war survivors. They are usually very confused, perhaps even physically ill, afraid and unable to trust anyone, most of all themselves.

FIND OUTS

These are people who are given, or stumble onto information which explains the situation enabling them to leave the mind control without fear and guilt.

These people usually take several years to work through the adjustment to normal living and attitudes. Education, scriptural as well as secular, cultivating new friends and establishing a new environment and restoring one's God-given personality are most helpful. The more one learns, the greater the healing.

COUNSELED OUTS

These people are rare.

Few studies have been done on the needs of people who were born and raised within a mind control group.
Most counselors are ill-equipped to handle the complexities of exit counseling because there are so many factors involved in mind control, and each person's experience is different, even within the same group.

JanG

Wow!

Thanks JanG for the information.. I'm not nor have I ever been a JW, but I have a good friend that is one, and it breaks my heart to see him being controlled without his own conscious knowledge!!!

Read my "Want to help my JW friend" thread for more info...

Liked this information. At first I was "thrown out" but the guilt and fear brought me back in. Then I after almost getting "thrown out" on several more occasions, I finally was a combination of "walking out" and "burnt out". Then I "found out" (by accident, exploring on the net) and now I am "out out". But they think I am "drifting" and "weak" and that is fine with me.

Lindy

Hi Jang,

I went through a mixture of walking out due to an inability to
measure up to the set standards and finding out about their scriptural deceptions. I did a bit too much researching and questioning, instead of developing enough faith and humility, I was told. On top of this, due to several health and emotional problems,
my field service time was always below 20 hours. But I always got to
hear about how so and so with worse problems manages to pioneer
full-time. They made me feel so worthless, unfaithful, useless and wicked that it ended up killing me inside. My spirit died. Now I'm
struggling on a daily basis to revive my spirit and keep it living.
It seems that they take everything from you and leave you only with
an empty breathing body, so that without them you are nothing.

Emyrose