HYPERIAN “RTS”: AN INVENTED “ILLNESS”

Someone called Dr. Marlene Winell made up an illness called “religious trauma syndrome”. If it were an actual condition, billions of people would be suffering from it given how many people are subjected to strong religious upbringings. There is no such thing as RTS. It’s the invention of a woman suffering from malignant narcissism looking for, and desperate for, attention.

Valerie Tarico wrote,

“Dr. Marlene Winell is a human development consultant in the San Francisco Area.”

FFS, not another fucking CALIFORNIAN! – the source of all bullshit and invented illnesses, always based on ATTENTION-SEEKING, the ubiquitous Californian disease.

Valerie Tarico wrote,

“Winell is also the daughter of Pentecostal missionaries. This combination has given her work an unusual focus. For the past twenty years she has counseled men and women in recovery from various forms of fundamentalist religion including the Assemblies of God denomination in which she was raised.”

This person invented RTS in 2011. Prior to that, there was no such thing! And guess who eagerly leapt on this invented illness? Yup … Morgy Porgy! Perfect for all his weakling, victimhood bullshit and to deflect from his REAL condition … his malignant narcissism and psychopathy.

Winell said,

“Religious trauma syndrome (RTS) is a set of symptoms and characteristics that tend to go together and which are related to harmful experiences with religion. They are the result of two things: immersion in a controlling religion and the secondary impact of leaving a religious group. The RTS label provides a name and description that affected people often recognize immediately. Many other people are surprised by the idea of RTS, because in our culture it is generally assumed that religion is benign or good for you. Just like telling kids about Santa Claus and letting them work out their beliefs later, people see no harm in teaching religion to children.”

“RTS” brings to mind Refrigerator Mother Theory. Wikipedia says,

“The Refrigerator mother theory, also known as Bettelheim’s theory of autism, is a controversial psychological theory that the cause of autism is a lack of maternal (figurative) warmth. Evidence against the refrigerator mother theory began in the late 1970s, with twin studies suggesting a genetic etiology, as well as various environmental factors. Modern research generally agrees that there is a largely epigenetic etiology of autism spectrum disorders. The terms refrigerator mother and refrigerator parents were coined around 1950 as a label for mothers or fathers of children diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. When Leo Kanner first identified autism in 1943, he noted the lack of warmth among the parents of autistic children. Parents, particularly mothers, were often blamed for their children’s atypical behavior, which included rigid rituals, speech difficulty, and self-isolation.”

People DO NOT suffer from religious trauma syndrome. They suffer from not being raised properly, and having catastrophic relations with their parents, especially their mother.

These fake RTS people are actually MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS. Professor Sam Vaknin, himself a malignant narcissist who had a nightmarish upbringing, said,

“Pathological narcissism is a reaction to prolonged abuse and trauma in early childhood or early adolescence. The source of the abuse or trauma is immaterial – the perpetrators could be parents, teachers, other adults, or peers. Pampering, smothering, spoiling, and ‘engulfing’ the child are also forms of abuse.”

So, parental religious extremism is just one way of fucking up children. Pay attention … it’s not the religious extremism itself that is the actual problem. A loving mother who is a religious extremist and who brings up her child as a religious extremist does not thereby fuck up her child. As long as she parents her child well, the religious extremism is irrelevant. When a mother is terrible (she is referred to as a “dead mother” as opposed to a “good enough” mother) then the child is in very serious trouble. It’s certainly possible that a mother who is much more intent on her religion than she is on loving her child and raising the child properly is GOING GO TO BE A DEAD MOTHER, raising, sorry to be tasteless about it … an ABORTION (aborted mentally, not physically). The point is that a bad mother, a “dead mother” (deadly cold to her child, and more or less absent as a proper nurturing mother) can have ANY EXCUSE for being a fuck-up. She could be an atheist, an academic, a careerist (career at all costs), a celebrity, an artist, an alcoholic, a drug addict, a sex addict, a cretin, a narc … you name it. And all the children of these dead mothers ARE FUCKED.

Vaknin talks about bad parenting very well in this video:

How to Raise a Narcissistic Child, Winner in a Sick World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do8rj4w_nf0

So, it’s a LIE that people are traumatized by religion. They’re not. They’re traumatized by their DEAD MOTHER. And of course it could also be a DEAD FATHER, a father you wouldn’t wish on anyone. But Vaknin says that the No.1 problem is the mother and especially how she raises the child in its earliest years. A bad father’s influence tends to become important later on.

In fact, as a rule of thumb, we could probably say that you are screwed if you have a “dead mother”, but if you have a “dead father” you’ll have a lot of psychological baggage to deal with but may well not tip over into pathology. Nearly everyone raised by a dead mother will end up as a person with a severe personality disorder. Dead fathers create trauma but not pathology.

So, rather than dealing with the ACTUAL ISSUE – a terrible problem with mother or father – this bullshit RTS nonsense lets people AVOID THE ISSUE and blame their problems on stupid religions. Religion was NEVER the issue. Bullshitters like Rebhahn say they were traumatized by the idea of hell. Does he ever talk about STS? – Science Trauma Syndrome. Here’s what science says: you’re a pointless, meaningless, soulless collection of material atoms devoid of free will in a vast universe utterly indifferent to you, and you will have a life of say, seventy-five years, and then be swallowed by oblivion. “You” will be utterly annihilated, and you never really existed in the first place, since you were nothing but a rather random collection of “atoms” that have nothing to do with you since they all existed before you did and will continue after “you” have gone! And your “consciousness” was just an illusory epiphenomenon.

Well, what’s not traumatic about that? But is there even one person in the world that claims to have STS?! There are zero sufferers. People like Winell just make up shit to advance their career.

Here’s an interesting Illuminist discussion:
Chelo Stone said,

“The philosophy you adhere to or like the most says a lot about who you are. A lot of people will say they like one philosophy but their actions might contradict that philosophy. Like this man Corey S. Rebhahn, leader of the cult of Hyperianism, who says he likes Hegel and Nietzsche but does exactly that which both philosophers detested the most. He’s a malignant narcissist, the worst kind of narcissist, so he’ll say anything to get narcissistic supply. Everything about him is a lie, a fraud, a con that’s been specially thought out and sadistically engineered to viciously get $$$ and adoration from people. Hyperianism is a truly evil enterprise created by a broken psyche, by a psychopath, an Abrahamist freak no less. Morgue is the product of child abuse and extreme fundamentalism. We have Jehovah to thank for the Hyperian cancer. That ‘holy book’ can really fuck up people’s head. He streamed today, “I became JESUS | Ex-Christian Plays ‘I am Jesus Christ'”. That was the title and he actually played a role game for his audience. So this is Hyperianism today, a group of outcasts watching a man with RTS supposedly trying to overcome his RTS playing a video game about becoming jesus. How’s that gonna work out? The shocking part is that no Hyperian ever suggests Morgue that it’d be best for him and his RTS if he just stop talking about it. No one tells him to focus on something else! This implies that many Hyperians also suffer from RTS, like Jan Eriksson, and they have found their support group so they won’t ever suggest anything like that! They will actually encourage more Jesus talk! It’s a vicious cycle that feeds itself more and more creating a snow ball effect. The more ppl with rts that attend his lives the more he’ll talk about Jesus, all the worse for everyone’s psyche and possibilities of overcoming their mental disease. And that’s exactly what happens. Hyperianism is, to a great extent, an RTS support group for damaged individuals. It has fuck all to do with a new world order, new terra or whatever, there’s nothing new there. It’s all been said and done a million times already. Morgue is following the same path other cult leaders followed before him. It never ends well. If you have someone you care for trapped inside this man’s psychotic scheme, watching his lives and clips or promoting his cult somehow… do your best to GET THEM OUT!
#deletehyperianism”

Indeed!

Daniel Diorio said,

“Well said! The only real way to overcome RTS is to STOP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT IT!!!! Instead one should focus on creating the glorious New World Order laid out by the PI where this shit doesn’t happen and life for the working class and all monads incarnating here have a much better quality of life free from this garbage and the predatory capitalism that bred it in the first place.”

Yup!

Karen Shaw said,

“I mentioned Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) in last night’s livestream Hyperian chat as a way to heal from RTS. Jan called PTG “toxic positivity” and got extremely nasty. I said it was a choice to focus on PTG rather than wallowing in RTS or PTSD. Of course Morgue twisted my words and said I was claiming RTS was a choice. Being mentally and emotionally abused by religious fanatics (or cult leaders) is NOT a choice. However, choosing to wallow in the memories and pain of RTS or PTSD is THE CHOICE OF HOW TO RESPOND TO ABUSE. Hyperians LOVE the pain of RTS (they are masochists) and LOVE identifying as and bragging about being victims.”

So, let’s dig into this critical point – identifying as a VICTIM and being more or less proud of it and seeing it as a badge of honor.

Sam Vaknin has done a brilliant video on Hyperian-type “movements”:

VINOs: Victims in Name Only – Professional, Career “Victims”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvUDit0L8qc&t=1s

In an interview entitled “Prof. Vaknin on Victimization and Victim Identity Movements” conducted by Scott Douglas Jacobsen, the following exchange took place:

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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What defines victimization? What defines a real victim in contrast to a fake victim?

Prof. Shmuel “Sam” Vaknin: Victimization involves the denial of the self-determination, identity, self-actualization, rights, and boundaries of a person without their express consent and collaboration.

Jacobsen: What makes victim identity movements, in fact, movements?

Vaknin: When victimhood becomes an organizing and explanatory (hermeneutic) principle, a determinant of the victim’s identity, and a socially binding force centred around grievances; prosocial or communal grandiosity; entitlement; conspiracism (paranoid or persecutory delusions); aggressive engagement or, on the other end of the spectrum, schizoid withdrawal; dysempathy; defiance (reactance); and contumaciousness (rejection of expertise and authority) – we have on our hands a victim identity movement.

No one is a victim. We may end up being victimized – but it doesn’t render us victims for life, it doesn’t brand us.

Jacobsen: Some studies in British Columbia, as you have noted, found some victimhood movements have been hijacked by narcissists and psychopaths. How does this muddy the waters of the real justice movements and make them ineffectual?

Vaknin: This was not the only study to have unearthed this very disconcerting undertow. We are beginning to wake up to the reality of what Gabay et al. call (2020) Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood, TIV). “professional” or “career” victims with emphasized narcissistic and psychopathic tendencies find new homes (“pathological narcissistic spaces”) in these social justice upswells.

It makes it difficult to tell apart legitimate evidence-based grievances from entitlement-fueled manipulative and counterfactual claims.

One helpful way to distinguish the two is by noting that narcissists and psychopaths are destructive, not solutions-oriented. They thrive on negative affects such as anger and envy and are loth to invest in the routine and tedious chores attendant upon rectifying wrongs and building a better world.

Jacobsen: What have been extreme historical cases of this going awry, as this phenomenon has been historically cyclical, including one close to ‘home’ in 2004?

Vaknin: Nazism is a victimhood movement gone awful. And, to a lesser degree the white man’s grievance movement implausibly headed by Trump is a more recent example of such subversive dynamics.

Jacobsen: What is the typical arc of development of victim movements?

Vaknin: The sociologist Bradley Campbell suggested that we have transitioned from a culture centred around dignity to one based on victimhood.

Learn more by reading Habermas, Fukuyama, and Foucault. All justice-seeking movements start with grievances (injustices). They decry and seek to remedy and reverse individual transgressions (eg, the narcissistic abuse online movement) or societal and cultural biases (implicit and explicit), discrimination, and suppression.

The victims organize themselves around exclusionary identity politics and intersectionality and this orientation results in grandiosity and entitlement, in other words: in growing narcissism. Increasingly more aggressive, these movements often become psychopathic (defiant and contumacious) and demonize the Other.

Left-leaning victimhood movements centre around entitlement and reparations claims on the majority, on social institutions, and on history. Right-wing movements are conspiracy-minded and avoidant, but also more violent.

Narcissists and psychopaths gravitate to such movements in order to obtain narcissistic supply, money, power, and sex. They become the public faces and the media darlings on these hapless victims, having hijacked their legitimate complaints and demands.

Jacobsen: How much of the online content on narcissism and psychopathy is garbage (worthless or worse) now?

Vaknin: About 90%. It is not only worthless (wrong), it is dangerously misleading and entrenches a lifelong self-defeating and self-aggrandizing victimhood stance even as it demonizes and mythologizes abusers.

Jacobsen: What is the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (TIV)?

Vaknin: A series of two studies by Israeli scholar Gabay and others, published in 2020. The authors provided this abstract:

“In the present research, we introduce a conceptualization of the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (TIV), which we define as an enduring feeling that the self is a victim across different kinds of interpersonal relationships. Then, in a comprehensive set of eight studies, we develop a measure for this novel personality trait, TIV, and examine its correlates, as well as its affective, cognitive, and behavioral consequences. In Part 1 (Studies 1A-1C) we establish the construct of TIV, with its four dimensions; i.e., need for recognition, moral elitism, lack of empathy, and rumination, and then assess TIV’s internal consistency, stability over time, and its effect on the interpretation of ambiguous situations. In Part 2 (Studies 2A-2C) we examine TIV’s convergent and discriminant validities, using several personality dimensions, and the role of attachment styles as conceptual antecedents. In Part 3 (Studies 3–4) we explore the cognitive and behavioral consequences of TIV. Specifically, we examine the relationships between TIV, negative attribution and recall biases, and the desire for revenge (Study 3), and the effects of TIV on behavioral revenge (Study 4). The findings highlight the importance of understanding, conceptualizing, and empirically testing TIV, and suggest that victimhood is a stable and meaningful personality tendency.”

Read an analysis of these studies here: “The Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood: The Personality Construct and its Consequences” (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886920303238):

Another interesting study:

“New research provides evidence that narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism — maladaptive personality traits known as the “Dark Triad” — are associated with overt displays of virtue and victimhood. The study suggests that people with dark personalities use these signals of “virtuous victimhood” to deceptively extract resources from others.”

(“Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities“, was authored by Ekin Ok, Yi Qian, Brendan Strejcek, and Karl Aquino, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychological Association, May 2020).

Jacobsen: What are the primary signifiers of narcissists and psychopaths who have or might hijack legitimate victimhood or justice movements looking for money, power, and sex?

Vaknin: Ironically, these usually are prosocial or communal narcissists. They often “control from the bottom” (emotionally blackmail by being self-sacrificial). So, the infestation of victimhood activism by narcissists and psychopaths is the tip of a submerged iceberg of ersatz altruism.

Some narcissists are ostentatiously generous: they dedicate time and other resources to social justice movements and to activism, they donate to charity, lavish gifts on their closest, abundantly provide for their nearest and dearest, and, in general, are open-handed and unstintingly benevolent. It is a form of virtue signaling. How can this be reconciled with the pronounced lack of empathy and with the pernicious self-preoccupation that is so typical of narcissists?

The act of giving enhances the narcissist’s sense of omnipotence, his fantastic grandiosity, and the contempt he holds for others. It is easy to feel superior to the supplicating recipients of one’s largesse. Narcissistic altruism is about exerting control and maintaining it by fostering dependence in the beneficiaries.

But narcissists give for other reasons as well.

The narcissist flaunts his charitable nature as a bait. He impresses others with his selflessness and kindness and thus lures them into his lair, entraps them, and manipulates and brainwashes them into subservient compliance and obsequious collaboration. People are attracted to the narcissist’s larger than life posture – only to discover his true personality traits when it is far too late. “Give a little to take a lot” – is the narcissist’s creed.

This does not prevent the narcissist from assuming the role of the exploited victim. Narcissists always complain that life and people are unfair to them and that they invest far more than their “share of the profit”. The narcissist feels that he is the sacrificial lamb, the scapegoat, and that his relationships are asymmetric and imbalanced. “She gets out of our marriage far more than I do” – is a common refrain. Or: “I do all the work around here – and they get all the perks and benefits!”

Some narcissists are compulsive givers.

To all appearances, the compulsive giver is an altruistic, empathic, and caring person. Actually, he or she is a people-pleaser and a codependent. The compulsive giver is trapped in a narrative of his own confabulation: how his nearest and dearest need him because they are poor, young, inexperienced, lacking in intelligence or good looks, and are otherwise inferior to him. Compulsive giving, therefore, involves pathological narcissism. In reality, it is the compulsive giver who coerces, cajoles, and tempts people around him to avail themselves of his services or money. He forces himself on the recipients of his ostentatious largesse and the beneficiaries of his generosity or magnanimity. He is unable to deny anyone their wishes or a requests, even when these are not explicit or expressed and are mere figments of his own neediness and grandiose imagination.

Some narcissists are ostentatiously generous — they donate to charity, lavish gifts on their closest, abundantly provide for their nearest and dearest, and, in general, are open-handed and unstintingly benevolent. How can this be reconciled with the pronounced lack of empathy and with the pernicious self-preoccupation that is so typical of narcissists? The act of giving enhances the narcissist’s sense of omnipotence, his fantastic grandiosity, and the contempt he holds for others. It is easy to feel superior to the supplicating recipients of one’s largesse. Narcissistic altruism is about exerting control and maintaining it by fostering dependence in the beneficiaries.

The People-pleasers

People-pleasers dread conflicts and wish to avoid them (they are conflict-averse) – hence their need to believe that they are universally liked. Always pleasant, well-mannered, and civil, the conflict-averse people-pleaser is also evasive and vague, hard to pin down, sometimes obsequious and, generally, a spineless “non-entity”. These qualities are self-defeating as they tend to antagonize people rather than please them.

But conflict-aversion is only one of several psychodynamic backgrounds for the behavior known as “people-pleasing”:

1. Some people-pleasers cater to the needs and demands of others as a form of penance, or self-sacrifice;

2. Many people-pleasers are codependents and strive to gratify their nearest and dearest in order to allay their own abandonment anxiety and the ensuing intense – and, at times, life-threatening – dysphoria (“if I am nice to him, he won’t break up with me”, “if I cater to her needs, she won’t leave me”);

3. A few people-pleasers are narcissistic: pleasing people enhances their sense of omnipotence (grandiosity). They seek to control and disempower their “charges” (“she so depends on and looks up to me”). Even their pity is a form of self-aggrandizement (“only I can make her life so much better, she needs me, without me her life would be hell.”). They are misanthropic altruists and compulsive givers.

All people-pleasers use these common coping strategies:

1. Dishonesty (to avoid conflicts and unpleasant situations);

2. Manipulation (to ensure desired outcomes, such as an intimate partner’s continued presence);

3. Fostering dependence: codependent people-pleasers leverage their ostentatious helplessness and manifest weaknesses to elicit the kind of behaviours and solicit the benefits that they angle for, while narcissistic people-pleasers aim to habituate their targets by bribing them with gifts, monopolizing their time, and isolating them socially;

4. Infantilization: displaying childish behaviours to gratify the emotional needs of over-protective, possessive, paranoid, narcissistic, and codependent individuals in the people-pleaser’s milieu;

5. Self-punishment, self-defeat, and self-sacrifice to signal self-annulment in the pursuit of people-pleasing.

Jacobsen: What, historically speaking, can be done to combat these Cluster B bad behaviors connected to some social movements?

Vaknin: As the grievances of these movements are addressed, they become a part of the establishment. This is when the hard work begins: the labors of writing laws, regulatory oversight, politics, negotiations and compromise, and the tedium of perseverance and routine.

These newfangled demands on the psychological and logistical resources of the movement and its adherents drive narcissists and psychopaths away: they are unaccustomed to and reject the hard slog and the often Sisyphean undertakings of public policy.

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You can see how horrifically accurate this is regarding the whole Hyperian scene and all the misfits in it, who are all professional victims, whiners and complainers. They are all “artists” and “intuitives” and the lgbtq gang (the extremist type, not the sensible ones who do not see themselves as victims, do not play the victim card, and do not go around demanding special status, special treatment and special privileges … they’re the cool gang who get on just fine with mainstream society).

The entire Woke scene is mentally ill, penetrated from top to bottom by malignant narcissists and psychopaths and all manner of enablers, codependents and people suffering from borderline personality disorders, and all of them claim to have nonsense conditions like RTS. How better to play their victimhood game? These people lie all the time, especially to themselves. They deny reality. They blame everyone else for everything but are always blameless martyrs themselves. That’s how these people play the game. That’s their chosen strategy. They are always pious and pompous sermonizers. They all endorse slave morality and condemn power. Power is offensive to them. They call it toxic. In fact, these are the most toxic people on earth. They are the Second Christianity, the rebirth of the weak and meek deluding themselves that the world is theirs.

So, the further adventures of deathbycrimson (aka Morggie, the Official Loony):

Deathbycrimson:

“You say you wanted a solution
If it makes you less sad, I’ll move out of this state
You can keep to yourself, I’ll keep out of your way
And if it makes you less sad, I’ll take your pictures all down
Every picture you paint, I will paint myself out
It’s cold as a tomb, and it’s dark in your room
When I sneak to your bed to pour salt in your wounds
So call it quits, or get a grip
You say you wanted a solution; you just wanted to be missed”

[Eh?!]

Deathbycrimson:

“Kiss Me
Kiss me, damn it!
You and I both know you want to.
I told you what you warned from me.
You’re like my hero.
Drake & Josh
Ramen
sushi
And Cuddles
Am I insane?
Maybe…
But all I want is you.
Please, just kiss me.”

[WTF! … You’re definitely insane mate … and keep eating the sushi, you “vegan” fuckwit!]