Your child is acting strangely - he starts treating you like an enemy, breaks up relationships, has a mood swing? This may be the result of maturation, but it may also be a sect. What are the other symptoms of so-called sect syndrome?
Sects are looking for the weak, lonely, insecure. Young people are a tasty morsel - they are looking for the meaning of life, experience dilemmas, and often do not find love or support in the family home. The sects take advantage of this through the so-called bombardment with love - someone who has so far felt underestimated, unnecessary, suddenly becomes someone important. The places of "recruitment" vary: members of sects often look for adepts at youth parties, in popular holiday destinations, and even accost them directly on the street.
How do I know if my child ended up in a sect?
In people who joined one of the sects, you can observe the so-calledsect syndrome . The child abandons his previous interests. The group he belongs to is everything to him: under the influence of its members, he can change the style of dress, breaks up relationships, seems absent, is alternately happy and sad, begins to see enemies among people he has loved so far, becomes oversensitive, gives up his own "I" can also be exhausted and malnourished (some sects require members to follow a low-calorie diet).
What to do when a child has become involved in a cult?
Seek professional help, because a sect is a group that is very difficult to leave, and besides, a manipulated young man does not want to do it. Cult information centers operate in every voivodship, and their addresses are easy to find on the Internet, for example at www.opoka.org.pl. Specialists will advise you on what to do to regain your child's trust and free them from the sect. Try to find out as much as possible about the group to which the teenager belongs, and most of all try to keep in touch with him, keep every conversation going, be interested in what he says. Also hide important documents (e.g. apartment purchase deed), savings, credit cards, so that the child, under the pressure of the sect, could not take them out of the house.
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