Public Statements

Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) & The Satanic Panic

I want to start this section by being clear about a few very important things. Yes, abusers who claim to worship demons and claim to be sacrificing you to demons do exist. I, the creator of this website, had an abuser who claimed I had to do things or demons would eat me or otherwise come after me. He claimed to and pretended to worship demons quite often in order to terrify, scare, and further abuse me due to him being a very sadistic person and I was a part of a Christian cult that he also was within. However calling such behavior SRA may not properly explain the situation and due to the ties the term has with the Satanic Panic and a spike of massive antisemitism from past decades, it is important to separate the conspiratorial fake Satanic Panic based idea with the very real abuse people suffer. SRA as well is not a good term as it tends to conflate what often is actually christian or atheistic abuse invoking the cultural concept and fear of demons with Satanists, a very real and valid religious/social movement. I personally prefer to refer to such things as atypical ritual abuse or just generalized ritual abuse.

This site does not by any means support the Satanic Panic. However, many abusers were in fact, inspired, by the satanic panic because a lot of abusers are in a way "man-children". They pretended to be bigger than life figures which they are not. What sometimes is still referred to as "Satanic ritual abuse" occurs when primarily western abusers decide to draw on cultural symbols of evil that children have been taught often to fear in order to be cruel and sadistic. They may pull from pagan traditions as well. Some of this is done to purposefully make it less believable. Much of this is done by abusers who are also deeply antisemitic and know the satanic panic was originally a continuation of blood libel. (This is not to say the information present during the Satanic Panic was reliable.) It is however the term that people most often know this by and until I can try and get others to pick up alternative terms- I will have to address this. Yes the Satanic Panic was a primarily fear mongering period of time tied to issues around antisemitism. Some antisemites however have continued this and actively mimic things purported during the Satanic Panic because this is often a way they further their own antisemitism. 

Claims that no abusers ever worship demons and there are never weird rituals done in order to invoke ideas of demon worship are harmful to survivors of a variety of forms of abuse. It is ignoring the fact that a lot of abusers like making things into sick and twisted jokes. This is not to say whatsoever that this is a practice that has anything to do with real magic or demons regardless if you believe in the existence of those things or not. This is abuse done in order to try and convince the victim that it is happening- often with hopes of making the victim seem unreasonable and unstable. Drawing from my own experiences- this seems to come primarily from abusers who themselves are antisemitic and openly so. 

We do not tolerate people who harm survivors and minorities through their conspiracies.

I will not stand for anyone who tries to play this off as the big and scary idea of real demons and horrible evil pagans and demon worship. That is not what this is. Erasing the humanity and reality of the abusers is never okay. You must accept that these are things that very normal looking people will do because some people are just genuinely awful. It is also important to be aware of the fact that the Satanic Panic and propaganda around it go to only protect abusers further and make it harder for survivors to come forward. 

We also will not ever be okay with anyone trying to use our abuse and abuse of others in order to justify their bigotry. The majority of RAMCOA victims are those who fall into one or more categories of minority. Abusers of the extreme usually have some level of power in society, class, or similar. Abuse does not happen because of some “secret group of evil powerful people like the illuminati” it’s more of an open secret- it is things such as organized crime, the known shuffling of child predator priests from place to place in catholicism, the 155-billion dollar industry of human trafficking, the practices most massive companies engage in supporting modern slavery in the form of labor trafficking in third world countries. It exists in the open with well known documented religious movements such as scientology. It exists because bad people have always existed. And though there may be various situations where things happen globally or with interconnected groups (such as trafficking individuals outside of the country) there is not one massive secret global group controlling everything. There’s people who talk to others and make business dealings that are shady in organized crime. 

Governmental Abuse

There is much talk among survivors about the way that governments can also engage in RAMCOA to create more survivors as well. This is something that I have unfortunately seen mny people write off as unimportant, not real, or "happens only in really specific small countries so it doesn't matter anyways". None of those are true and all of those ideas server to aid abusers and silence victims. Governmental abuse is something that is an ongoing issue for people in almost every single country you can imagine. People tend to not be aware of the way that soldiers and agents of the government are trained and how brutal it is. Governmental abuse also often shows up when a group of people are being oppressed, wrongfully imprisoned, and genocided.

Examples Of Government Based RAMCOA

• MkUltra done by the USA government. (Look for the genuine unclassified documents and not conspiracy nuts who sensationalize real people's pain). This was an attempt to do primarily DBMC (drug based mind control) by drugging often people who were active agents and trying to manipulate them in the drugged state and make it stake when they become sober again. There's a lot more to it- but any government that does experimentation on anyone is usually engaging in RAMCOA. Many survivors are leftists and because of that I want to make it clear- federal agents are still bad and I as the site creator believe in ACAB. However, there are still at times circumstances that lead people to being forced into specific situations- and even if not they do not deserve to be subjected to human experimentation.

• Lots of forms of training that federal agents and army/navy/airforce members endure. Being trained specifically through means that are often recognized as torture can leave people with various issues. These people matter and deserve to have space in our community.

• In some countries often those at active war there may be drafts and sometimes this includes very young people or actively children. There are still people alive who have survived this. You matter.

• Something that could in some cases be considered tied to the government- the old Residential Schools where in Native Americans were brutalized and attempts at further eradication of our people were made. Some victims of this are still alive- people like me who have family members who endured this also exist. 

• The USA prison system at least is a known form of legalized slavery. Similar to labor trafficking. There are plenty of oher countries with horrific legal systems like this as well. Ex-cons who have developed things like PTSD from their time imprisoned also deserve community.

Not All Survivors Have DID

A lot of the community online is centered around experiences of RAMCOA that lead to the development of DID- especially programmed DID. (Programmed DID is when an abuser purposefully induces DID in a child they abuse). However RAMCOA is something people of any age can experience. DID as we currently understand it, only develops in childhood. That means by definition not all survivors will have the disorder. Additionally many survivors who do have DID do not have programmed DID- they have organic DID in the sense that their abuse and trauma was not done with the intention to create DID in them. There's also cases where a DID system with no history of RAMCOA later in life experiences it. There's so much variety in experiences for survivors. There's some other well known disorders that are known to occur as well. Dissociative Identity Disorder is just one of the man.

Other Common Disorders

• Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD)

  • OSDD-1

  • OSDD-2

  • OSDD-3

  • OSDD-4

• Depersonalization/Derealization (DPDR)

• Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (DDNOS, an older term)

• Partial Dissociative Identity Disorder (P-DID)

• Secondary dissociative syndrome

• Dissociative neurological symptom disorder

• Trance disorder

• Possession trance disorder

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD/C-PTSD)

• Post traumatic development of various disorders often icluding anxiety

• Personality disorders such as Antis-social, Narcissistic, Borderline, Histrionic, Schizotypal, Avoidant, etc.

It is also plausible for somebody to develop no disorders as a result. However this is not very common due to the severity and extremity of RAMCOA itself.