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'Turn it off!': Ex-NXIVM member describes Clockwork Orange-style 'fright study'
A Vancouver actor says she still has a lot of deprogramming work to do to rid her mind of the horrific images of violence she was forced to watch as part of a so-called fright study conducted by a fellow member of NXIVM, the self-help organization that critics call a cult.
ESCAPING NXIVM
The public and private turmoil of escaping a suspected sex cult
When B.C. actor Sarah Edmondson first joined the self-help organization NXIVM, it seemed inspiring and full of exciting epiphanies, but her escape 12 years later from the group some describe as a cult was frightening and followed by a painful process of "deprogramming" and a paralyzing fear of retribution.