ABSTRACT
My therapist and intelligent, informed friends who know about this field have told me for years that I am not responsible for what cult perpetrators do. “They did that, not you,” they say. Of course, I do not believe them. It just did not sink in or I would not let it sink in even after I heard it multiple times. Media messages sink in after two exposures, sometimes three, but I just could not receive that all this evil was not my fault. Ridiculous, I know.
