About David Mc Dermott,
The Doctor From Dublin

 

Hi,

I'm David Mc Dermott and this is the page where I get to write good things about myself…

My first teacher in school told my mother that she should encourage me to read. My mother organized it so that every time I finished a book, there was a new one ready. I have been reading a lot ever since.

I have always had an interest in people, how and why they are different, what makes them tick, how their bodies work. Add to that a desire to help others and it is no surprise that I ended up doing medicine. Plastic surgery, in fact. Something about the way that plastic surgeons worked with care and precision really appealed to me and I chose that field.

Surprise, surprise, I met a nurse, fell in love (very quickly!) and shortly afterwards we got married. The relationship seemed great initially but once that major commitment was in place, her behavior changed. Dramatically!

The relationship didn't last very long. The divorce was very messy and emotionally distressing.

 

Something different!

I had been looking into the world of alternative medicine and personal development around this time and some friends introduced me to a guy who they said was doing some interesting things in terms of teaching people to be their true selves. I went along. I got hooked!

He was teaching people how to feel good about themselves and about the world. At this particular point in my life, I was miserable. I was in the middle of a traumatic divorce and here was someone teaching me how to feel great! What was not to like?

I signed up. I gave it my all. I set up a business doing what he was doing, teaching others how to better themselves and how to feel good about themselves. I became the No. 2 in the group, so to speak, working closely with the leader, doing more and more programs with him and then doing those programs on my own, in Ireland and in other countries.

10 years went by. I became disillusioned with him. He didn't pay much but he took a lot. He frequently changed his mind about things, always to suit himself. I could see he was taking advantage of others, many others. I didn't like that the same people were coming back time and time again, never quite achieving what they had originally signed up for. I left the group.

I started a relationship with a woman I met in Barcelona on my travels. She was working in an NLP school, selling all sorts of coaching and personal development courses. She was fed up with this environment, too, and she quit.

For quite some time we didn't talk much about our previous employments. However, one day she started to tell me about the models and ideas taught in the school she had been in. We realized that there was something seriously wrong and that led us to the realization that she had been in a cult.

She started working with a specialist in cults in Spain. I studied with her, reading, watching videos. I had been an external teacher in her school and I wanted to know what he had been up to. I soon realized that I had been in a cult, too. I started into my own recovery, and also came to understand that my first marriage was with a manipulator.

The specialist taught us about mind control and how the psychopaths change people's personalities and showed us how to undo the damage that had been done to us.

 

Sharing information

Much of the information we learned I realized was not available on the internet. I had a web site about decision making and I added a section on mind control. That section became so big that I separated that out and created this site.

 

Things are changing

It seems that we have more psychopaths amongst us than ever before. The internet has been a boon for the psychopaths. They have access to so many more people than before.

The world is in crisis and when things are tough the cults thrive. People are looking for answers and the cults offer simple solutions to complex problems.

The best protection against mind control is understanding how it works and learning how to spot it. My aim with this site is to provide people with the necessary information to protect themselves and to get help when they need it.

 

Client work

For over a decade I have worked exclusively with people who have been victims of mind control.

My clients include those who may be trying to leave destructive groups or those who have actually left and are still suffering the effects. I also work with people who have been abused in one to one relationships by narcissists, psychopaths and other manipulators.

Another group of my clients are people who were brought up in toxic families and are having problems as adults. Bullying/mobbing situations in work is another area where people are subjected to the machinations of the psychopaths and realize that they need help.

So, I have experience on both sides of the fence, so to speak. I have been in various mind control situations myself, I have recovered and I have considerable experience helping others to leave.

My own experience in cults and abusive relationships goes a long way to helping me to understand the situations of my clients and, in particular, to avoid making them feel guilty or responsible for what happened. In fact, I spend a lot of time explaining to my clients how they are not actually to blame for what was done to them, outside of their awareness and without their consent.

Another fundamental component of what I do with my clients is to help them to understand, to make sense of what was done to them. Confusion and misunderstanding is typical in people who have been psychogically abused. I believe that getting rid of the confusion and clearing up these misunderstandings is vital to a good recovery.

So for those who have gotten to the point where they are ready to say 'No more!' to their abusers and are willing to do what it takes to take control of their own lives and make their own decisions again, there is help available. This is what I set up this site to do.

 

Thanks!

That's enough about me. Thank you for visiting and I hope you find the information here useful.

If I can help in any way, please ask!

Regards,

David.

 

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