Tips to leave a cult

This is not a drill.

Deprogramming someone from a cult can be a complex and sensitive process. Here are some general steps that might help guide the process:

  1. Educate Yourself: Learn as much as you can about the specific cult, its beliefs, practices, and the methods it uses to control its members.
  2. Build Trust and Maintain Contact: Try to maintain a positive relationship with the person. Avoid criticizing their beliefs directly as it may push them further away. Show genuine care and concern.
  3. Encourage Critical Thinking: Gently encourage the person to think critically about their beliefs. Ask open-ended questions that might prompt them to reconsider certain aspects of the cult’s doctrine.
  4. Provide Emotional Support: Cult members often feel isolated from friends and family. Providing a support system can help them feel more secure when considering leaving.
  5. Create Cognitive Dissonance: Introduce information that contradicts the cult’s teachings. This can create cognitive dissonance which might lead them to question their involvement.
  6. Professional Help: Seek assistance from professionals who have experience in dealing with cult deprogramming. This could include psychologists, counselors, or organizations specializing in cult recovery.
  7. Safe Environment: If the person decides to leave the cult, ensure they have a safe environment where they can recover and re-adjust to life outside the cult.

Always approach the situation with sensitivity, as the process can be emotionally and psychologically challenging.

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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