

community for survivors and people who
support survivors
Help exists for survivors of slavery, slavery-like conditions, and organized network abuse.
We are a reality-based peer-led support community of survivors and the people who support us. Our organization is dedicated to helping people egress slavery, slavery-like conditions, and organized network abuse.
Survivors experience different severities, intensities, and complexities of traumatization. Each survivor is in a different state of egression from their conditions. There exists survivors in our population who were deliberately born victims; still egressing in-born and active conditions; and otherwise lacking agency and entirely disabled.
Help exists to eliminate causes of invisibility, disconnection, and enmity; and benefit people from all conditions including extremes, horror, obscenity, war, and torture. To eliminate obstructions to community and harmony, we act to include and make visible people from all conditions together.
Community online & in Columbus
We offer groups, dinners, and community events for survivors and for people who support survivors!

How to Join
We offer an orientation for all new participants to ensure that our offering is a good mutual fit.
To schedule your orientation, please contact us at registration@helpexists.org.
Before attending, we kindly ask that new participants review our community guidelines below and complete a liability waiver, available for download here:
Community Guidelines
Help exists for survivors to share reality-based peer-led support together. Our community is dedicated to helping people egress slavery, slavery-like conditions, and organized network abuse.
Our community guidelines function to help protect the special needs of survivors lacking agency and entirely disabled through egression from active conditions, while responding to reaccessing and disablement from the crimes that we have survived and are still surviving.
Our guidelines are written to protect engineered slaves, child soldiers, human experiments, and other such victims who mustn't be forced to demonstrate their disablement, lack of agency, or lack of cultural familiarity.
No solicitation. During survivors egression from active network abuse conditions, and in protection of their lacking agency, privacy is nonnegotiable. We are protecting survivors who are programmed to be forced public. To maintain everybody’s safety, do not solicit for public testimony inside this community.
No self-promotion. Do not advertise or market research for products, services, or media content.
No assumptions about identity. Survivors born into slavery, slavery-like conditions, and organized network abuse, from infancy onward had lives and identities formed by torture. Should we ever egress our in-born conditions, we are not restoring a whole self to a former state––we are just existing for the first time. Our identity must be formed, not repaired. We experience further damage when attention is demanded on identity. Some of us are here as people who have no outside identity, other than being a survivor, trying to survive a day at a time. Children in slavery grew up with identities defined entirely by submission, obedience, utility to others, fear conditioning, survival strategies, and roles imposed by captors/family/cult/traffickers with no internalized sense of who they are, what choices they may have, what rights they may have, what aspirations they could have, and what may be possible for them.
No assumptions about shared culture. Survivors raised in captivity or inside of environments engineered by abuser groups above the law and with conventionally unlimited resources are disabled from experiencing shared culture. Not only is there an absence of shared culture, but there is an exponentially harmful effect deliberately created to ensure that what is co-regulating and comforting for the general population is torturous and gaslighting for survivors amongst them.
Emergencies. Survivors exist in a fixed state of emergency. States of emergency are valid and real, even when intrasystem conflict gaslights the validity, and even wherein emergencies are not demonstrable to or visible by outside people. Emergency states may make us inappropriate resources for others to depend on during their own non-negated emergencies.
Lack of agency. Survivors are conditioned to serve others in total submission and without agency. We are disabled from meeting and representing our own needs and interests, inside and outside. Our silences, agreements, and disagreements with outside propositions regularly arise from reflex, not from agency. We need that others be reverent of this condition and support us in being loyal to our own agency always.
Entirely disabled. We have been maimed in unimaginable ways that remain noncommunicable, and by default, private. We are deliberately disabled from communicating about what was done to us, and what kind of support we require for healing. We need that others be reverent of this condition and of our need for accommodations.
Appearance of function. Regardless of whatever functional presentation may be forced out, states of being totally agencyless and totally disabled must be held as existent and real.
Free Pass and Noncon (nonconcordance). The mental, verbal, and physical actions required for our egression to freedom is non-concordant with the perceptions and experiences of outside people. Example: If I have a reflex to say “I hate myself” or “No!,” it might be an alter who has no idea what is going on in the present moment, in conversation with outside people. Acknowledging and assuming the worst without making meaning or taking it personally is the best way to respond. The function of a free pass is to allow alters to try to communicate without being held responsible for offending outside people. Some alters come out and reflexively say or do things, and their actions do not mean anything directly concordant in the physical and social environment.
Resources. Any access to resources that survivors may appear to have does not reflect their ability or agency to interact with those resources, including socioeconomic assets, relationships of family, friends, spouses, children, and non-harmful and accurate therapy. Survivors born into torture trafficking may be permanently disabled from abuse and actually disabled from joining a working class. The most traumatized survivors just need 24/7 careproviding and supportive housing. This must be acknowledged.
Sometimes, when survivors appear to have resources, they may actually be imprisoned by the gaslighting appearance serving to further enslave them right in front of everybody, and this disables them from accessing help because of assumed agency that they cannot act upon.
Media and technology. Survivors are primed in childhood to interact with media and political events differently than the general population. Cultural artifacts including religion, politics, celebrity, media, and technology are vectors in mind control programming, and survivors experience different effects dependent on how they were programmed. Given the degree to which media and technology were used in our slavery, programming, and torture––and also used to maintain the effects of such in our systems––and given how much these artifacts pervade all of our lives––it is on topic to process how media and technology have affected us, but not for the sake of small-talk or co-regulating based on assumptions of shared culture.
Celebrity. When survivors disclose abuse that is also covered in the media, we respond with reverence for their needs for privacy. Being forced public strips us even further from control over how we appear to others, and mires us further in agencylessness and isolation. For survivors whose abuse has been forced public, privacy is nonnegotiable.
We do not celebritize survivors based on the conditions of their abuse, what they were forced to do, or who their perpetrators are.
We do not celebritize survivors based on the sophistication of their programming. We do not celebritize survivors based on their helpfulness.
We do not frame anybody (survivors, therapists, or otherwise) as experts or celebrity authorities. We protect survivors who produce helpful organizations, blogs, and content by not aggrandizing the survivor, their skills, or their experiences.
We refrain from giving public comment about those survivors directly, i.e. “they are so brave; what they went through was horrible; they are such an incredible writer; I believe them,” etc., because this makes them victim celebrities. Harm happens when we are not looking at people through reality––when we look up or down at anyone. We all just have different conditions, and our different conditions inform what kind of assistance we need in our egression to freedom. That’s it.
Compare and despair. In reverence of survivors born into slavery and slavery-like conditions––the reality of the effects of mind control and social engineering at the population level must be acknowledged. At the population level, people are conditioned, culturally shaped, and socially engineered to measure their own pain and suffering against the pain and suffering of others, instead of just directly being able to meet unmet needs, as a function of population control. Comparison leads to despair by functioning to disconnect us from our needs and replace our actual needs with competition for worth. This creates guilt and shame and turns survival into a trial rather than a right.
For survivors born into the most extreme iterations of mind control slavery, perpetrators deliberately apply comparison as a weapon inside of socially engineered environments to determine which children and adults are special and survive, versus not special and die. Being special does not mean being loved or valued—it means being kept alive for enduring more suffering and chosen for the endurance of taking and inflicting pain that other children and adults could not. We were chosen by surviving what was meant to destroy a person, while others were discarded, deemed expendable, and ultimately sacrificed based on their responses to torture. The phenomenon of celebrity is socially engineered and is built on foundations of survival in ritual sacrifice.
The effects of this mind control shape our relationships by forcing love and survivability to appear as scarce and conditional inside a double bind of limited resources and survivability. Socially engineered competition for survivability exists at the population level too and is also based on the demonstrability of (non-torture-based) forms of “specialness.”
“Compare and despair” refers to the effects of this particular function of mind control. At a population level, the effect of this is achieved vis-a-vie resource control, identity interpellation, and mimetic warfare. While controllable resources cannot actually include love, people at population levels are mind controlled to abandon love as a scarce and conditional resource.
Outside of the implementation of mind control, there is no actual ranking system that determines who is and on what basis are they worthy of love. In reality, being loved and valued does not necessitate others being harmed. Part of recovery is discovering that love actually exists and you are actually worthy of love. We are learning together that having love does not require sacrifice and that nobody is replaceable because everybody is worth more than the harm their body can take and the harm their body can inflict. The only route out is to love ourselves and each other to freedom.
Groups

kindness conference
July 18, 2026
Columbus, OH
The Junto Hotel
8:00am - 5:00pm



