JUPITER SAID:
I find long-term recovery to be hard. I am emotionally stable, I am strong and self-aware, but growing up in a cult reveals the worst aspects of humanity which cannot simply be unseen. I find that I notice destructive group patterns everywhere, and I stay away from any group or organisation which seems remotely wounded or destructive in any way. Actually, this doesn't make it easy to hold down a job, because many companies are somewhat dysfunctional and resistant to change. I am far less tolerant due to my post-cult recovery.
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I see the same thing everywhere I go. I am retired now, but the trade I was in, I went to several different companies. Each company had a flavor of it's own, you could say they all had their own personality, or even they were all of a different "spirit." The long term employees took on the personality of the owners, and the higher ups of each company REALLY took on the personality of the owners. They were all sort of like cults, or actually I call some of them outright cults. The formen were all wanting to be higher up formen, like cult members wanting to be in the inner circle, closer to the owners. It's really the same thing as cults.
I see the same thing in good churches as I do in cults, only on a less toxic level. If the higher ups of those good churches flip out, the whole church pretty much will flip out with them.
I find long-term recovery to be hard. I am emotionally stable, I am strong and self-aware, but growing up in a cult reveals the worst aspects of humanity which cannot simply be unseen. I find that I notice destructive group patterns everywhere, and I stay away from any group or organisation which seems remotely wounded or destructive in any way. Actually, this doesn't make it easy to hold down a job, because many companies are somewhat dysfunctional and resistant to change. I am far less tolerant due to my post-cult recovery.
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I see the same thing everywhere I go. I am retired now, but the trade I was in, I went to several different companies. Each company had a flavor of it's own, you could say they all had their own personality, or even they were all of a different "spirit." The long term employees took on the personality of the owners, and the higher ups of each company REALLY took on the personality of the owners. They were all sort of like cults, or actually I call some of them outright cults. The formen were all wanting to be higher up formen, like cult members wanting to be in the inner circle, closer to the owners. It's really the same thing as cults.
I see the same thing in good churches as I do in cults, only on a less toxic level. If the higher ups of those good churches flip out, the whole church pretty much will flip out with them.