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Lea Saskia Laasner

Alone against the Soul-Snatchers

‘It was as if the energy I had held down all these years suddenly erupted. I was often depressed and thought about suicide, but now it was as if my paralysis had evaporated. I was wide awake. Janet’s words couldn’t touch me any more. I nodded mechanically so that Janet didn’t get suspicious. Just get through it, I thought; you’ll soon be out of here.’

The dramatic, real-life story of a young woman who grows up in a secretive sect, first escaping the vicious circle of dependence, sexual abuse and psychological terror at the age of twenty-one.