2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
A harmonious personality rarely falls under the influence of sectarians. More often - people with certain character accentuations. Characteristic features of such people can be introversion, isolation, rigidity, insufficiently developed critical thinking, hysterical (desire to be in sight, in the center of attention), paranoia (fixation on one idea). Also in the sect there may be those who are in a state of stress, the collapse of hopes, acute chronic psychological trauma, who do not receive sympathy and support, primarily in the family. Adolescents are a special category of “weak” - those who do not receive life value orientations in the family, or the values change rapidly (change of place of residence, change of parental profession, divorce). If a person, having fallen for the bait, comes to the organization simply for "interest", his psychological treatment begins, this is called "love bombardment". A dumbfounded person, sometimes having problems with communication, suddenly begins to say: "Really no one told you that you are so smart!"; "Where did you get such an ability to dress!": "It seems that you know incomparably more than what they give you!" The person begins to extol, he becomes extremely comfortable in the environment of new "friends". It is at this stage that they can open to him where he actually ended up, they begin to acquaint him with some of the principles of this organization, which the neophyte may not share. Then he asks some "uncomfortable question", then "best friends" immediately become gloomy, harsh, dry, turn away from him. To regain their affection, the newcomer does not ask any more “uncomfortable questions”, begins to act as his “friends” say - and this is already the beginning of giving up freedom.
The goal of all sects is the same - to recruit as many citizens as possible under their "banners". And the content of religious deception is all sorts of promises to make life happy. And, as a rule, promises are not selfless. Because the basis of happiness can be a complete renunciation of one's property. Of course, in favor of the sect. Fraudsters often resort to false promises. What is worth promising and getting a round sum for it! Note that it is verbal deception that is the main weapon of sect leaders. And we must pay tribute to the latter: they are orators and ideologists - what else to look for!
The stories of people who have fallen into destructive sects are always stories of grief and sadness, a family's struggle with an unknown enemy, which does not always end with the return of a lost relative. In a short time, everything that was "before" is knocked out of a person, and he is filled, like an empty vessel, with new contents. A person's consciousness is completely changed under the influence of psychological manipulations. Sectarian addiction has the same features, signs and manifestations as any other addiction - alcoholic or narcotic.
The danger of sectarianism lies in the fact that the sect completely cuts off a person from real life. He concentrates only on religious worship. A person may be indifferent to family and friends, loses interest in work, study, family and everyday life. Thus, the sect makes people socially useless, and sometimes even socially dangerous.
How to resist manipulation:
- work on a stable psyche;
- to improve psychological literacy;
- have a critical perception;
- do not enter into discussions with unfamiliar passers-by, representatives of sects, brotherhoods, etc.
- not to spread information about yourself to casual acquaintances, so as not to give them material for manipulation;
- be attentive to your state - when we are sad and depressed, we are most vulnerable;
- even if you get to a festival, celebration, presentation of something similar to a sect, take everything that happens as a film or a play;
- in difficult life situations, look for support in yourself, or if it does not work out, seek help from a psychologist;
- detect in time a prolonged bad mood, which can be a harbinger of depression;
- channel your desire for communication in a positive and constructive direction, such as helping the elderly, children and people in need;
- have your clear position and picture of the world;
- work on developing your personality and develop awareness;
- change your social environment if you see that it pulls you down;
- remember that love and happiness are an internal product, not an external one.
The article was created with the help of works: a teacher-psychologist - Kalacheva Galina, a clergyman - Vitaly Yavkin and me, a psychologist - Alena Lumiere.
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