In trauma therapy, the question is not whether experiences fit a label like ritual abuse or mind control. The question is how a person learned to survive overwhelming, repeated threat. When abuse is chronic and inescapable, the nervous system adapts through dissociation, compliance, and compartmentalization. These are not signs of weakness or suggestibility, they are intelligent survival responses. Healing does not require proving what happened; it requires safety, consent, and a therapeutic relationship that honors the psyche’s protective strategies rather than fighting them.