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Extreme Abuse (EA)
What is Extreme Abuse? History of Extreme Abuse Extreme Abuse Survey What's next?
What is Extreme Abuse?Extreme Abuse (EA) is a term that encompasses the more
extreme forms of human-against-human abuse that exist in our world today. These
extreme forms of abuse include human
trafficking and slavery; cult abuse;
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC); forced participation in
pornography, prostitution, drug sales, arms trafficking, murder for hire, and
other illegal acts; war crimes; Child
Soldiering; kidnapping; false imprisonment; governmental and nongovernmental
torture; ritual abuse; and mind
control.
HistoryThe concept of Extreme Abuse was developed in the late 2000s by representatives of the ritual abuse and mind control community, in response to strong political and media attacks that the survivor community had experienced from the early 1990s through the mid 2000s. Most of the attacks seemed to originate from leaders and founders of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and other questionable organizations, which accused survivors of having fabricated "false memories" of having been abused in unusually horrific ways. One reason the concerted attack was so successful, was that even the survivors had great difficulty describing their experiences in ways that listeners could "wrap their minds around". Another reason was that many of the survivors had previously been taught - by perpetrators - to use abnormal code words, phrases, and more when communicating about their socially abnormal experiences to "outsiders". Using strange code words and phrases unfortunately served to further alienate and confuse concerned listeners. Another reason for the success of the anti-recovery backlash, was that most survivors identified themselves as survivors of "ritual abuse" and "mind control experiments", concepts that were easy to ridicule and attack. In the late 2000s, some of the leading survivors in the ritual abuse and mind control communities, and support persons, joined together to discuss and create new, more socially acceptable terms and definitions of the horrific abuses they had suffered. Although many survivors of extreme abuse still choose to identify themselves primarily as survivors of ritual abuse and/or mind control, other survivors no longer feel locked-into identifying themselves in such limiting ways. By using the more global term of Extreme Abuse, survivors are more able to emerge from the isolation and restrictiveness of the former terms, and to connect in healthier ways to other supportive organizations that represent and help survivors of other forms of Extreme Abuse.
Extreme Abuse Survey (EAS)After the identifier was agreed upon, a group of four committed researchers designed a series of surveys to identify and measure variable commonly reported by survivors of extreme abuse. The researchers - Thorston Becker, Carol Rutz, Wanda Karriker, and Bettina Overcamp - named the series Extreme Abuse Surveys. To learn more about the Extreme Abuse surveys and current results, visit these websites: http://extreme-abuse-survey.net http://eassurvey.wordpress.com http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Extreme_Abuse_Surveys http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies Thus far, the EAS results strongly validate the previously
reported, commonly shared experiences of many survivors of extreme abuse. The results
also help non-survivors to face the awful truth that survivors' reports, which
were blasted in the media and courts for more than a decade, are legitimate.
What's Next?As we learn about the Extreme Abuse Survey results, our next question may be: what do we do with what we learn? Some answers may be found in an excellent blog article at http://akaunk.wordpress.com. Although some people will still turn their backs on the unpleasant reality of the existence of Extreme Abuse in North America, our hope - here at NAFF - is that most people will become sufficiently outraged, step beyond their old comfort zones, and work together to change laws and legal policies, to help ensure that future generations in the U.S. and Canada will never have to experience the terrible human-against-human atrocities that today's survivors continue to speak out about - often in the face of great adversity. We hope that as more people and organizations learn about the reality of the existence of Extreme Abuse in North America, they will be motivated to work towards providing basic protection, support, and rehabilitative services to help larger numbers of survivors cope with the horrors of their pasts, and to heal and build safer and healthier lives for themselves and their dependents. To learn more about the special protection, support, and
rehabilitative needs of Extreme Abuse survivors, see Kathleen
Sullivan's Lincoln Memorial speech.
This page was most recently edited on 11/20/2009. |
Emergency contacts and resources
Catholic
Charities of East Tennessee, Inc. Children's Focus
Adolescent Services: Family Help in Tennessee The
Partnership Survival
Necessities Assistance USA
Abuse
Consultants Child
Help USA Cyber
Tipline Domestic
Abuse Helpline for Men Friends
of Battered Women and Their Children Hot
Peach KID
SAVE National
Center National
Center National
Family National
Family National
Runaway/ Adolescent Suicide Hotline National
Suicide Hotline National
Youth Prevent
Suicide Rape,
Abuse, & SAFE
(Self-Abuse Stop
Abuse for Stop
It Now! Suicide
Prevention Virtual
Global Task Force (VGT) Abuse Centre
for Treatment of Sexual Abuse & Childhood Trauma Hot
Peach Kids'
Help Phone Stop
Abuse for Telecare
Distress Victims
of Violence Virtual
Global Task Force (VGT)
Many more helpful contacts are listed on NAFF's Recovery Resources and More Resources web pages. |
Every day around the world, and even here in the United States,
children are sold into virtual slavery or traffic for the worst forms of sexual
abuse - President Bill Clinton, U.N.
Protocol Orders Signing Ceremony
July 5, 2000. |
