Deterioration Programs

In the world of spies as well as the mob, those who know too much are frequently driven mad or killed off by proxy through what's known as a deterioration program. This type of program is directly tied in to targeting. The targeting doesn't even have to occur in the present (though it often does) because what survivors go through is enough to make us our own worst enemies. The ravages of PTSD include a difficult to break cycle of financial crises, failed relationships and addiction.

There was a good article online a few years back that went into the different categories of deterioration program but I can't seem to find it now. So, I'm going to describe this from what I can remember and from what I've personally experienced. 

Spin Programs
A spin program is a set of pre-primed triggers which induce anxiety in one's system of alters. Some describe the sensation as having racing thoughts or obsessive-compulsive symptoms. If your fragments become very chatty and repetitive it is likely that you are going through a spin. 

Flood Programs
Flood programs are designed to cause a person's system to literally flood them with trauma memory fragments. It's usually difficult to stop when the survivor is already going through targeting and may not have the resources to do anything other than experience the memory recovery process. There's a very Pavlovian aspect to this program in that at least one or more alters perceives a reward in continuing to dredge up memories. It may be an anxiety that a particular memory must be recovered in order to find one's way out of the program. Without proper social and psychological support, however, the process usually furthers deterioration. 

Personally, I have experienced both spinning and flooding in a way linked to deeper program archetypes known as Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz. I'll describe those now.

To understand Alice in Wonderland programming you have to make a pun: "It's all ice in wonder land".  Ice represents anything that is frozen. So, you can imagine when the trauma is affecting the fight, flight or freeze response of the body that a freeze response is being likened here to ice. The question handlers often ask during deprogramming (or even reprogramming) is "Does the anxiety you feel have any basis in knowledge of an upcoming attack against you or am I merely triggering old body memories and emotions from past trauma?"

The evil part of this is that it's not always just ice, but in order to figure that out, you have to flood.

The Wizard of Oz programming seems to have a lot more to do with the personal relationship one has with the handler. In my case, the constant threat was always that deterioration leads to homelessness and ultimately death. The yellow brick road is not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for my troubles but the urine soaked sidewalk outside the homeless shelter. Because I am LGBT and on the autism spectrum (a frequent target of her hatred) she would often say "It's raining B.O. and I expect rum."

Although I've endured quite a bit of deterioration over my lifetime due to the ongoing traumas that lasted through my 30's, I have also had the love and support of friends and family keeping my head above water. Some are not so lucky. I think the most important thing any of us can do in the situation is constantly strive to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and focus on what's positive. If you allow them to drag you down through negativity they surely will.