Comments on: How Being in a Cult Can Affect Your Mental Health https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/ Something Can Be Done About It Sun, 26 May 2024 19:46:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Suzie Lovell https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581984 Sun, 26 May 2024 19:46:12 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581984 Excellent article brigs alot of attention to things that go along with cults. The mental health aspects of cults all add up to being dangerous for the person. Leaving those aspects of mental health is hard to do in a high control group/ cult situation.but once you see the traits you can’t ignore them.

]]> By: AnEx https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581683 Wed, 22 May 2024 09:23:07 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581683 In reply to pluvo.

pluvo. Nice article – thanks. If you don’t know already, you may like this podcast with Mark and Mike:

https://www.mikerindersblog.org/podcast-with-mark-vicente-of-the-vow/

]]> By: Denny Owen https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581667 Wed, 22 May 2024 02:04:56 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581667 My recent post on cults may be of interest, “From Narcissistic Abusers to Global Movements: The Deceptive Spectrum of Cults.”

Just my one-man effort to help shed a little light on those dark corners of society with the hope to prevent further harm and protect vulnerable individuals from exploitation.
https://tinyurl.com/bdfy6yf5

]]> By: Imogen https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581665 Wed, 22 May 2024 01:25:36 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581665 In reply to pluvo.

Mark’s video is absolutely incredible. he just seems like a great guy in general who wants to warn people about the danger of cults through his own experience. Lots of insight and wisdom that he has shared after leaving NXIVM.

]]> By: Chris Shugart https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581658 Tue, 21 May 2024 22:43:23 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581658 a cult is “an ideological organization held together by charismatic relations and demanding total commitment.”

Thank you for that clear and concise definition. I’ve always had a problem with the word “cult” because it became a misused, overused catch-all buzz word meant to criticize any organization one doesn’t like. That’s just being intellectually lazy.

]]> By: Imogen https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581651 Tue, 21 May 2024 20:37:26 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581651 Alot of great points mentioned in this article. I found it nice in particular the How to get out of a cult portion brings up so many ways that someone in a cult can do to get out and get help.

The mental health aspect of leaving a cult has always been interesting to me I feel as ot would be a straining experience leaving a situation like that especially if you where raised in it.

]]> By: pluvo https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581647 Tue, 21 May 2024 20:02:09 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581647 The best and most comprehensive and comprehensible issue of “What is a Cult?”, I’ve ever encountered is from Mark Vicente (video and text, so one can also read comfortable while listening):

https://www.markvicente.com/thoughts/2023/5/15/what-is-a-cult

]]> By: Eviee https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581646 Tue, 21 May 2024 19:26:47 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581646 Cults and mental health don’t particularly seem to mix well within the cult mindset. Most cults that i have looked into dont seem to believe in anything mental health related. Leaving a cult seems difficult but this article helps especially at the end with the list of how to leave a cult.

]]> By: LoosingMyReligion https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581645 Tue, 21 May 2024 18:55:56 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581645 In many, if not most, cases, the level of indoctrination one has been subjected to is the key issue. How much this has permeated the way of thinking and reasoning, in the conscious and unconscious, is unfortunately decisive.
Just think, as far as scn is concerned, just the idea of ​​being critical about it or leaving is automatically a symptom of “overts and withholds” for the person himself. Getting out of it often is an ordeal and if it was the Sea Org it’s even worse.
What has worked for me is thinking about what it would be like next and holding on to that thought.

]]> By: Tori James Art https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-being-in-a-cult-can-affect-your-mental-health/#comment-581637 Tue, 21 May 2024 16:01:56 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2622622#comment-581637 This was a fantastic article. Your input wad also very insightful and informative. Cults and information about mental health don’t go well together. Because the mental health information never matches up with the information the the cult has given its followers.

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