ABSTRACT

All survivors of trauma have post-traumatic responses, commonly called being 'triggered'. Post-trauma responses are not all deliberately programmed. Non-programmed post-traumatic responses are usually triggered accidentally by situations that resemble the original trauma. However, if a response is programmed, you need to negotiate with the insiders who are 'doing their jobs' in setting off the response, to help them understand that it is safe to turn it off. Many of the other types of programming produce psychiatric symptoms, usually administered as punishments by insiders who are trained to administer them, if the survivor has breached security or disobeyed the abusers' instructions in other ways. Perpetrator group members can give cues to parts to set off these programmes and have the spinner parts spin them out to the rest of the personality system. Suicide trainings are often really trainings for internal homicide, that is, one part killing the body with the goal of getting rid of the other parts.