"Child abusers (parental abuse) normally do all they can to crush their victims’ self-esteem. With this happening in one’s formative years, it is the norm for people to be exceedingly fragile, which makes it even more damaging when over-zealous christians try to “cast out” a huge part of who they are. To reinforce an alter’s dangerously false self-image by declaring them demonic could be the final straw. At the very least, any attempt to drive out an alter will succeed only in driving the alter into deep hiding, giving the person temporary peace in that the person is no longer aware of the alter, but making healing of the person’s inner pain, false guilt and so on, impossible (unless the damage is somehow reversed). It could even result in the person’s suicide."


"one consequence of (parental) verbal and emotional abuse is personal ineffectiveness stemming from the lack of direction, inability in developing one's self thereby unwittingly resulting in self doubt and fear of success manifested outwardly as shrinking from success in any career."