The following links contain descriptions of abuse that may be distressing if you are someone with a history of being gaslit or otherwise manipulated
Mind control's role in Complex PTSD - "C-PTSD usually occurs due to childhood trauma. Complex trauma can have more severe consequences than non-complex trauma. It can also cause the onset of depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance use disorder, and dissociative identity disorder (DID)." -- "You or someone else could be experiencing mind control if you recognize these tactics:
-A person or group uses terror, threats, and manipulation to mold the brain into its more primal survival mode. Escape feels impossible, either physically, mentally, or socially.
-You or someone else believes the perpetrator and whatever truths they tell about you, someone else, or the world.
-You comply with their wishes and demands to survive. You’ll believe or do anything they ask out of forced trust and the need to survive. In a state of survival, your brain struggles to process information logically, which is why you may continually trust and believe the perpetrator. Doing what they say often feels like the only way to stay safe."
"Religious trauma syndrome" - "Symptoms of RTS are a natural response to the perceived existence of a violent, all-powerful God who finds humans inherently defective, along with regular exposure to religious leaders who use the threat of eternal death, unredeemable life, demon possession and many other frightening ideas to control religious devotion and the submission of group members." -- "Religious communities often serve as the foundation for individuals' lives, providing social support, a coherent worldview, a sense of meaning and purpose, and social and emotional satisfaction. Leaving behind all those resources goes beyond a significant loss; it calls on the individual to completely reconstruct their reality, often while newly isolated from the help and support of family and friends who stay in the religion."
Mind control in toxic relationships - "Abusers deliberately make their partners feel confused—sometimes not even knowing their own thoughts. Abusers overwhelm their partners’ views, desires and opinions through what Evan Stark has termed "perspecticide," leaving a victim with an abuse-related incapacity to know what they know." -- "Mind control also influences survivors to return to the abuser after a separation. Survivors are used to coordinating their lives around the abuser’s wishes. Sometimes they feel panicked, lost, and empty when this central person is “gone.” They likely also feel responsible for the relationship problems since the abuser has blamed them."
The BITE model - "Mind control refers to a specific set of methods and techniques, such as hypnosis or thought-stopping, that influence how a person thinks, feels, and acts." -- "BITE stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control." -- "Some are universal such as deception (Information control), indoctrinating people to distrust critics and former members, or installing phobias to make people afraid of questioning or leaving."