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Multiplicity

For some people who experience severe trauma or abuse in childhood the only means of survival may be to develop what is sometimes known as Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder. read more

Self injury is a coping mechanism

Self-injury can be very hard to understand, both for the people who do it and for those who support them. The main thing to realise, and accept about it though, is that it is a way of coping with difficulties. read more

Some basic truths about self injury

Self-injury is not a sign of deep disturbance or madness. read more

Flashbacks

Flashbacks are memories. Sometimes, survivors have a strong memory that seems very real to them, like they are actually re-living it. It can be so strong that they thing they are back in the place where it all happened. To them it can be so real that they see it, feel it, taste it and smell it. Often the memory repeats itself over and over again. read more

Panic attacks

Another problem for survivors can be panic attacks. These are very distressing and often just seem to appear out of the blue. read more

Survival tactics and problems of survivors who have escaped

Survivors instinctively use many different tactics to survive ritual abuse and the aftermath of such abuse when they get away from it. read more

Beliefs and faith

Many survivors of ritual abuse grow up with a faith that they still firmly believe in even after they have finally escaped from the group. read more

Prostitution

Though society often judges people who are involved in prostitution harshly and considers them to be making an active choice in what they are doing, this is not always the case. read more

 

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