PATHOLOGIES INDUCED BY CULT MANIPULATION - Phobias
Cult ideology is based on the internal-external dichotomy and a
Manichean view of good and evil, leaving the cult member with a permanent fear of the world. [7] All CC speech feeds and supports social fears. The cult acts as though it is a rampart against the evil that reigns outside. Confrontation between the cult member and real society causes episodes of anxiety [8} that can reach the level of great panic attacks with physical manifestations. For example, the doctors treating the children who were let go in the days preceding the destruction of Waco observed massive somatic disorders, in particular cardiac disorders (tachycardia, arrhythmia, palpitations, syncopes) and intestinal disorders (diarrhea and colitis). These disorders developed directly following the traumatic events, therefore proving to be the psychosomatic origin. [9]
To a lesser degree, we have seen these disorders in the children of the Family of Love, when they were confronted with normal society, which had been described to them since birth as the Kingdom of the Devil. These disorders were reinforced by the “obligatory” contact with a select few “representatives” of the outside world. The obligations that come from belonging to society are often denied by the cult, and they are the cause of a wide range of more or less complex phobias. This is often the first obstacle to surmount when trying to begin a psychiatric dialogue with the member or ex-member of a cult.
Doctors and family are invested with a malevolent power by the
cult, for they embody the hated society, of which they are the symbolic instruments and, at the same time, the defenders. The unconscious persistence of the conduct and rituals taught by the cult places the subject within a framework where he finds himself hemmed in between the old constraints of the cult and the new requirements of society. Stubborn obsessing over ideas, stereotyped behaviors and absurd impulses is typical of a obsessive compulsive disorder. The subject, conscious of his own bad judgment, has almost insurmountable difficulties in controlling his thoughts and is involved in a multitude of behaviors, which he rejects intellectually but can withdraw from only with painful effort. [10]
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7. Social phobia, DSM IV: 300.23.
8. Simple phobia, DSM IV: 300.29.
9. Psychosomatic troubles, DSM IV: 300.81.
10. Obsessive-Compulsive neurosis, DSM IV: 300.30.
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