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What often leads a child to be MPD/DID in these cults is that the intelligent, creative children are taught to dissociate. They are taught how to block out the abuse and let their minds go to a safe place. When the child learns how to successfully dissociate they are programmed by the cult to develop alters by further abuse. Each alter absorbs some of the abuse and protects the "core" personality from more abuse than they can handle. The children are often unaware that the alters even exist and that they have been programmed. Some alters are programmed to return to the cult at a certain time, even if they leave, commit suicide if they don't return on certain dates or release information about the cult, communicate with the cult with out the knowledge of the core personality. These programs are carried out by the use of triggers which could be a color, a word, a day, or anything that the cult feels it should use. |