Isn it possible the person involved with a destructive and unsafe group/leader will eventually just walk away without an intervention?
Yes, but at what cost personally to their physical, financial, psychological or emotional wellbeing? And though many people do leave destructive groups/leaders after a few years, others may stay a lifetime. Perhaps the best research and documentation of how cult intervention work affects its subjects was done by the authors of “Snapping”, Conway and Siegelman during the early days of what was then called “deprogramming”. They stated, “…Our last block of findings concerned the controversial issue of deprogramming. The numbers confirmed that deprogramming was indeed a vital first step on the road back from cult control. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of the people in our survey were deprogrammed, about half voluntarily and half involuntarily. As a group, they reported a third less, and in many cases only half as many, post-cult effects than those who weren t deprogrammed. Average rehabilitation time was one-third longer, more than a year and a half, for those who weren t deprogrammed comp
