103. Collared
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A woman tells us about the devastating impact spending seven years in an underground community had on her.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to BetterHelp for supporting the secret room, for 10% off your first month, go to BetterHelp.com slash secret. |
| 0:08.0 | And thanks to Native, Native makes safe, simple, effective products that people use in their bathroom every day with trusted ingredients and trusted performance. |
| 0:16.5 | For 20% off your first purchase, visit nativedeodorant.com and enter promo code secret during checkout. |
| 0:24.5 | What's your secret? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm kind of embarrassed to say this. |
| 0:30.0 | Just recently started a new job and my supervisor and I seem to be on the same wavelength a lot of time, like the hive mind type of mentality. |
| 0:38.5 | And I find myself hesitating three to five seconds before I say anything because I don't want to say the same thing as her. |
| 0:45.5 | Oh my god. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm afraid that she'll find I'm mocking her or, you know, making fun. |
| 0:58.5 | Did you feel kind of invisible? |
| 1:05.5 | I felt a lot of invisible. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.5 | Today a woman enters the secret room with a story that focuses heavily on adult themes. |
| 1:13.5 | My name is Rose and my secret is that I allowed myself to be psychologically controlled in an underground community for several years. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm undergoing psychotherapy to help me overcome the symptoms I developed as a result. |
| 1:32.5 | But that underground community Rose was a part of is just a setting, not the cause. |
| 1:37.5 | How old were you when you found it? |
| 1:39.5 | Early 30s and newly divorced. |
| 1:41.5 | What happened to Rose? Could happen to anyone? Anywhere? |
| 1:45.5 | How did you find it? |
| 1:47.5 | I found it online, yeah, through chat rooms. |
| 1:50.5 | And I before had been completely oblivious to this lifestyle, absolutely oblivious. |
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