MLM Survivors Club: Re: [MLM Survivors Club] ex-many-mlm's

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Re: [MLM Survivors Club] ex-many-mlm's

On Saturday 26 January 2008, kstar3333 wrote:
> Hi - my name's Kathy - I am grateful to find there is this support
> group here for people like me who have been mlm junkies and have
> since seen the light! Don't know if I will ever be able to feel
> non-guilty and unashamed again as regards all the people who I
> approached and tried to recruit and the 3(!) I did recruit...I truly
> believed at the times I joined these companies that I was helping
> people and would then be helped myself - how wrong I was...
> Don't know what else to tell you at present as I just feel upset when
> I think of all this...it will always affect me - I have become a
> hermit and have no confidence left - so I am grateful for the
> internet where at least I can be anonymous and find some like-minded
> people.
> Thanks and best wishes,
> Kathy

Kathy, when you're talking about how you feel, remember this: YOU were
used. This is what I consider the worst aspect of an MLM. At the time
you genuinely thought you were doing the right thing to get people to
join. You were, literally, brainwashed to do this.

Other people took you, got into your brain, messed with your mind, and
convinced you they were right. They used you to recruit people into
their organization. They turned you into someone who would act as you
did.

I'm not going to get into just what you were and were not responsible
for, but do remember that while you were doing these things you were
under the influence of experts who knew how to twist your thinking and
convince you to do what they wanted you to do, not what you normally
would have thought you should do.

Hal