Personal Narrative: The Childhood Horror

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the childhood horror because they allowed the survivors to be someone else. Even if the client is not part of a Satanic group anymore, these behavioural patterns can certainly stick around even after the trauma. The need to mutilate is related to people raping them, and desperately wanting them to stop. It is also seen as them not wanting to be their biological gender so that they would not be raped anymore. (Stroh, 1996: 69-73). Therapists also discovered that certain important holidays which are ritual based like Halloween or Christmas tend to become suicide dates among ritual abuse survivors (Colin, 1995: 115). Another possible range of symptoms could also be seen through other forms of normal behaviour, like art. A survivor could paint

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