What does RAMCOA mean?
Putting it under a read more after the warnings.
Please, if you're a minor or an adult sensitive to the following topics be cautious. I'll try not to be extreme and i will not go into deep details.
TWs: Cults, Trafficking, CSA, Programming, Murder etc.
I will be using this *carrd ( link ) for help on explaining as i do struggle, but if you choose to just use the CARRD please mind the trigger warnings.
*RAMCOA stands for Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, and Organized Abuse.
A survivor does not have to be just RAMCOA to be a survivor, they can be RA, MC, or OA or some mix. *"Each term has a slightly different meaning, and while all RA and MC is OA, not all OA is RA or MC."
*"OA - Organized Abuse. This is a term for any and all abuse that is conducted in an organized fashion; by multiple abusers working together, to create repeated, planned abuse towards the victims in order to manipulate them into a specific goal."
*"RA - Ritual Abuse. A mixture of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse aimed to control the behavior and thoughts of victims through usage of cues and conditioning."
*"MC - Mind Control. A shortened form of TBMC, standing for Torture Based Mind Control. MC is also known as programming, where victims are repeatedly tortured starting at a very young age to intentionally cause a system of dissociated parts that function perfectly to suit the abusers' needs"
RAMCOA can be seen in: Churches, Cults, Military, Trafficking Rings, Schools, Camps, Daycares etc.
It is usually caused by multiple people ( multiple authorities ) and is usually done to children.
Its.. a type of system ( plurality, D.I.D, OSDD ) that uses headmates/alters for specific things. In RAMCOA, they are called programs. And these programs are used by the Authority figures for personal use. It can be anything from CSA to Murdering someone.
If i had to be honest, a very real and very specific RAMCOA case is truthfully the ongoing news case that i will not name, but you probably know what i am talking about.
Not all RAMCOA survivors have suffered through CSA/SA but a majority have.
Its very very real and very very horrorifying. But people don't believe it or believe its just a conspiracy because it began when there was satanic panic ( anyone may correct me on this as i just barely learned this myself ).
If you don't know about cults, which I'll explain briefly just in case you are a young person or just someone who doesn't know. Cults are very very serious and they are not "hail satan lets kill the sheep for sacrifice" in real life. Christian churches can be a cult, Non religious places can be a cult. Its why its truthfully offensive when a fandom or community calls their group "fandom cult".
A true cult is not something to romanticize ( unless you're a survivor trying to cope/heal with ur own trauma ). Its not something to want or make fun of.
But to wrap this up because i don't want to drag this out, RAMCOA is very serious. the only reason why i brought it up in a fictional media/for headcanon is because i am fixating on it and i get to cope how i want to. Do i believe any of the children in PPT went through SA? no. I do not because the game while dark, probably would not go there and truthfully i do not want it to. But they were programmed, they were mind controlled, and Huggy and Lily is proof of that. The adults in that media told their children lies and that they were the only good adults in their lives.
To anyone else. You're welcome to help give info/correct as long as you're polite/neutral, but note i am pro endo.