Diddly,
The group I was in did many similar things to what you're experiencing. After leaving the group and speaking out against it, I was labeled a sort of heretic, and things were said behind my back, and even in public, to make me look bad (some were true, some were not). I was also told that I would fail without the group and would never succeed on my own. When this prediction did
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