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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

35: Dark Therapy: Brainwashing and Forced Confinement

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the system that says it'll help you instead uses you as part of their sick experiment? We're looking into two stories of people who were promised help, and instead became stuck in a broken system and faced brainwashing, torture, and imprisonment.


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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How our minds work has remained one of the universe's greatest unsolved mysteries, but

0:09.8

that hasn't stopped anyone from trying to figure it out.

0:14.0

From Freudian theories claiming you're attracted to your mother, all the way to lobotomies

0:20.3

and more, we've tried a variety of ways to understand ourselves, and not all of them

0:25.8

have been successful.

0:27.6

All of them have been downright tortuous.

0:32.8

I want to start this episode by saying I am very pro-therapy and mental health services.

0:38.7

I've utilized therapy at times in my life where I've needed to gain back control over

0:43.5

my thoughts, and I've really benefited from it.

0:47.1

But with my dark curiosity, I couldn't help but wonder if there were times where therapy

0:53.3

had gone off the deep end, where the person who was being entrusted to make sense of

0:58.5

someone's mind took it too far, and I cannot believe what I found.

1:07.3

I'm going to tell you two stories today.

1:10.1

Two stories of women who were promised help for their conditions, but were instead held

1:15.9

captive within a broken system.

1:19.7

The first is about a young girl who was being used as a guinea pig and an experiment without

1:25.8

her knowledge, and the second is of a woman who was trapped against her will after her

1:32.1

husband had her committed, and as always, listener discretion is advised.

1:41.9

What is that feeling when the energy and the room shifts, when the air gets sucked out

1:48.9

of a moment, and everything starts to feel wrong?

1:54.5

It's the instinct between fight or flight, when your brain is trying to make sense of what

1:59.4

it's seeing, it's when your heart starts pounding.

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