In September and October 2015, we found ourselves at the Underground Bunker scrambling to keep up with a major national story that we’d helped to break: Actor Jim Carrey’s girlfriend, Cathriona “Cat” White, had been found dead of an apparent suicide at 30.
I have personal experience with how Scientology handles members who have mental issues that don’t respond to auditing. I had severe clinical depression and agoraphobia for three years. Scientology assigned two volunteer ministers to watch over me. I appreciate their efforts, they donated their time to see that I ate and got exercise outside. They did not have any therapeutic tools and so I suffered every waking minute. I still believed in Scientology and thought I was a complete failure.
Finally I got so I did not care that I was violating ethics rules and I started reading Tony Ortega in the Village Voice. In two month the depression lifted and I knew Scientology was a lie.
Jenny Burpee needed professional help. Gaslighting is the cause of so much mental turmoil within the cherch organization.
You can see my story in a new documentary called BROTHERS BROKEN debuting in the Cinequest Film Festival. I hope my story prevents others from joining Scientology.
Brothers Broken - Cinequest/Cinejoy Film Festival page-
This is what frightens me the most about scientology. Once you’ve been in it, even after you leave, there are time bombs planted in your mind from your time in there. The emotional shrapnel pops up at unexpected times and if you are programmed to not get real help, there’s nowhere to turn.
Always so sad.
It's hard enough to persuade people who need treatment to seek it, at the best of times. Their very illness gets in the way.
Nobody needs a fear of councillors, let alone psychiatrists, created by Scientology conditioning.
So many people must have died unnecessarily, over the years - genocide in slow motion.
I have personal experience with how Scientology handles members who have mental issues that don’t respond to auditing. I had severe clinical depression and agoraphobia for three years. Scientology assigned two volunteer ministers to watch over me. I appreciate their efforts, they donated their time to see that I ate and got exercise outside. They did not have any therapeutic tools and so I suffered every waking minute. I still believed in Scientology and thought I was a complete failure.
Finally I got so I did not care that I was violating ethics rules and I started reading Tony Ortega in the Village Voice. In two month the depression lifted and I knew Scientology was a lie.
Jenny Burpee needed professional help. Gaslighting is the cause of so much mental turmoil within the cherch organization.
You can see my story in a new documentary called BROTHERS BROKEN debuting in the Cinequest Film Festival. I hope my story prevents others from joining Scientology.
Brothers Broken - Cinequest/Cinejoy Film Festival page-
https://creatics.org/create/cinejoy/showcase/moviepage/267106/Brothers-Broken
... "you didn't even know you were in."
The absolute best wording for those of us who are well educated but were suckered in ... until we knew it was a scam.
This is what frightens me the most about scientology. Once you’ve been in it, even after you leave, there are time bombs planted in your mind from your time in there. The emotional shrapnel pops up at unexpected times and if you are programmed to not get real help, there’s nowhere to turn.
May she be in Peace, Light & Love.
May Scientology be in turmoil,darkness and hate born of it’s Lies.
Thank you Tony. Sending 💛
It was good of you, Tony, to do what you could to push her toward the help she needed. I didn't know of her, but this is heartbreaking.
I'm so sorry. What a sad, sad thing to learn. My thoughts are with the people who loved Jenny.
How sad, nothing else need be said, but the $cieno mindset can do you great harm.
Mark, thank you. I’m still deprogramming. Making the documentary helped a lot.
Powerful Post Mark Thank you.💛