I wrote this article using ChatGPT based on my own thoughts. This is extremely important, so I sincerely hope you will deepen your understanding and help readers face themselves, firmly resolve the unresolved issues deep in their hearts, and improve their lives. That was the intention behind creating this article.
What I experienced in my cult-like dysfunctional family
“Why do I always trip over the same kinds of things?” “No matter what I do, it feels like nothing goes right.”
There are quite a few people living day to day with feelings like that. Even if they change their external circumstances—move house, change jobs, change their relationship with a partner—some similar problempops up again――. That may be becausein your “unconscious,” there is still an unseen “real problem”that has yet to be found.
Here, I want to write about a shameful family fact that happened in the cult-like dysfunctional family where I grew up in the past.
Family member A, who was my family, was encroached upon by an outside scammer. That encroachment was allowed because scammer B was deceiving family member A. In short, he was posing as an ally while acting as a frenemy. Unable to understand that, A gradually allowed the encroachment, and as a result, when everyone was drunk, family member A had their partner N stolen by that scammer B. And it happened in their own home.
After that, similar things continued, and when I was a teenager, I witnessed one of those cheating scenes. At that time, I was in conflict with that family, so when I saw the two of them naked and panicking, all I could think was, “What pieces of trash,” and I was so detached that I didn’t even want to treat it as a problem or try to fix it.
Then after that, I ended up in a juvenile training school, but even after I got out, family member A still never dealt with the encroachment by scammer B, kept bringing that scammer into their own home, and lived a daily life soaked in alcohol and filled with affairs inside family member A’s house (the home where I grew up). And the one who enjoyed all of that was family member R. This R found pleasure in destroying the family’s happiness, so whenever someone got a boyfriend or girlfriend, they would work behind the scenes to ruin it—in other words, they were the type who orchestrated breakups. So this R was the one who encouraged scammer B and arranged for scammer B to come to family member A’s house.
In this abnormal family of R, who enjoyed destroying family relationships, M, who had become like R’s obedient dog, and H, who was one of their associates, the “darkness” produced by their way of living was projected onto me, and through projective identification I was treated as the “bad one” in that environment. That is what I am now explaining based on my current knowledge. Looking back at the past from a broader perspective now, family member A, who left this problem unresolved and covered it up, also ended up with a completely messed-up life afterward.
This is the theme I want to convey in this article, namely the earlier point that
“Even if you change your external circumstances—move house, change jobs, change your relationship with a partner—some similar problempops up again――. That may be becausein your ‘unconscious,’ there is still an unseen ‘real problem’that has yet to be found.”
That is what this refers to.
Family member A had their partner N stolen in their own home and could not deal with it, so the frustration, shame, deep emotional wounds, and all sorts of things must have become mixed together and, beneath the surface, turned into a tangled mess too difficult to untie.
Family member A did not deal with this story. So after that, scammer B kept coming into family member A’s house, the drinking continued day after day, and in that flow, family member A’s partner N left the house after going to scammer B. But from scammer B’s perspective, it was just a game of ruining someone else’s family, so he sent partner N away. After that, between family member A and partner N, events in which hatred, revenge, and such things were glimpsed continued over many years. Irreparable psychological harm, too…
Actually, this issue was, I think, when I had just entered my twenties. Even after family member A’s partner N went to scammer B and was sent away, they were still trying to come to family member A’s house at the time, just like in the past. That they were trying to come was something I learned from family member R, who had met with scammer B secretly many times. In other words, family member R was enjoying this, inviting scammer B back again and plotting to destroy the relationship between family member A and partner N once more.
If this isn’t resolved, it becomes the level of complex trauma. With family member A unable to do anything about it, family member R secretly kept going to see scammer B and trying to get him to come to the house. When I learned this, I found the store where that scammer B was drinking (at the station front in Hodogaya, Yokohama at the time), called that store, asked to speak to the scammer, and because I had only just begun to reform at the time and still hadn’t fully shaken off my old mindset, I felt like, “You bastard, you messed up my house,” and told him I was coming there right now, so he’d better wait. I drove over, truly thinking I would kidnap him, stuff him in the trunk, take him somewhere, and beat him half to death—but scammer B ran away. After that, he never again tried to come near my house.
From what I heard, family member R kept in contact with scammer B after that too, but probably because he sensed I was serious, the scammer stopped coming. As a result, I drove the scammer away. If I hadn’t driven him away? I think that family member R would probably have invited scammer B back into the house again, and at worst, family member A might have had their mind broken or been pushed to the brink of suicide. A dysfunctional family that cannot deal with scammers or frenemies, and within it, a frenemy family that teams up with outside scammers to hurt the family. They are pathetic.
Within this household, I valued justice, while R had a very high degree of wickedness, and family member A, unable to deal with things and putting on a brave face while trying to be a good person—frankly, the only one who was sane in this was me.
But in this family, I was treated as worthless trash, the bad guy. Among the blood-related family members, I was the only one who was dependent on them, so in the past I could not leave, and I was treated badly as the villain by the side hiding its own evilness. In other words, precisely because they were hiding their blackness without resolving it, they made me look bad through lies and distortions. And they even set up thorough psychological manipulation to make that happen. This is part of projective identification.
I think there are many parts that are hard to understand for people who grew up in ordinary families, but this was a cult-like dysfunctional family.
(I’ve already resolved it in my heart. I made the distinction, gave thanks for being born, and closed the chapter.)
I myself also have a past in which, amid the environment I was born and raised in and the complex problems in my family that kept getting worse, I continued being deeply hurt countless times and stayed wounded without understanding what was happening. To save myself from there took more than ten years of study, self-awareness, self-understanding, understanding of others, understanding of the past, acceptance of the past, and self-acceptance. It took a long time, but I’ve deciphered a lot of it.
So what I want to say is that they suppressed these problems.As a result, they became mentally unwell andcame to rewrite the past. Because they were rewriting the past, they became quite the liars.
Once that happens, the problems buried in the unconscious can no longer be solved; worse, they keep getting more and more tangled, developing into serious problems beyond anyone’s control. People like this can become highly wicked and, at the same time, come to prefer domination themselves. That is a sign of hidden weakness. They approve of dominating the weak in a bad way. They even started saying from their own mouths that they liked control (family member B).Unresolved problems from the past thus connect to present problems, and those in turn connect to future difficulties.
That is why, as Jung—one of the three great giants of psychology—says,I recommend deepening self-awareness and self-understanding, and getting to know your own heart deeply. I want you to know yourself deeply for your own sake.
I thought it would be good to also include ChatGPT’s opinion on this, so I entered everything I had just written and asked what it thought, so please read that answer as well.
To ChatGPT:
What do you think? I wrote about things that happened in my past.
Please tell me what you feel and what you think.
「本当の自分、無意識の中にある自分の心の情報と向き合っていますか?心の問題は解くもの!僕が育ったカルト的機能不全家庭では、家族Rが、陰で糸を引き、家族Aとパートナーの関係をじわじわと壊していった。」の続きが購入後に読めます。
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