tic stress symptoms. With respect to symptoms that fulfill established diagnostic criteria, Shaffer reported that many victims present a clinical syndrome that includes a high incidence of Multiple Personality Disorder, Dissociative Disorder NOS, Major Depressive Episodes, and Somatization Disorder.
Treatment of satanic ritual abuse differs widely and, often, this variance is due to a therapists' willingness to believe that it is possible for satanic ritual abuse to occur. For example, Mulhern (1994) feels that the notion that one has been a victim of satanic ritual abuse is, itself, a symptom experienced by patients who have experienced some sort of deep trauma, usually in their childhood.
According to Mulhern, all that has happened is that due to some childhood trauma (perhaps physical and/or sexual abuse) certain people develop what she terms "conspiracy theory." In other words, these people are suffering from a delusion that others are conspiring against them and it takes the form of believing that they have b
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