Physical pain through hitting, stress positions (pain from poisoning, illness, chronic sleep deprivation)
- Shaming, humiliation (kompromat, “announced” surveillance in bathroom, bedroom)
- Threats against family, friends (threats against family, friends, recruitment as informants)
- Social isolation, rupture of social bonds (social isolation, rupture of social bonds through intimidation, slander, recruitment as informants, undercover agents and informants)
- Ridicule of religion, core values, culture (stalking in church and ridicule of religion, intentionally defying legal and Constitutional principles, abuse obvious to target but which leaves no forensic evidence, mocking and preventing attempts to seek legal or administrative protection, medical care, religious counsel, etc.)
- Sleep deprivation (sleep deprivation from noise, vibrations, faulty physical and environmental controls, diathermy (using radio or microwaves to heat the body))
- Waterboarding (smothering using C-pap machine-induced sleep apnea, respiratory illnesses, allergy, to restrict and interfere with breathing, especially while asleep)
- Simulated funeral, mock execution (death threats, medical scares e.g. cancer, severe chronic illnesses caused by stress and sleep deprivation, poisoning)
- Loud noises, stress inducing and disorienting environment, sensory overload (same)
- Excessive heat, cold (sabotage of environmental controls, plumbing, fever from illnesses induced by “restraining agents”)
- (financial damage, property damage, loss of job, blacklisting, false charges and legal threats, false diagnosis, medical and pharmacological tampering, poisoning, etc.)
What is Psychological Torture? Chapter One, The Trauma Of Psychological Torture, Ojeda, Praeger Press, 2008 adapted (“Psychological torture” is misleading; many are physical):
- Prolonged Isolation
- Sleep Deprivation
- Severe Sexual and Cultural Humiliation
- Use of Threats including death threats, threats against family
- Deception
- Environmental Manipulation (noise, heating and cooling, smells, tampering with food, medicine)
- Invading physical space, hostility, yelling, insulting
- Fear up, Fear down (manipulating fear and anxiety)
- Pride and Ego up, Pride and Ego down (manipulating the ego of the target)
- Omnipotence, “We know all” (demonstrations of omnipotence by revealing private information, obvious stalking and surveillance, false stories of “mind control” technology, etc. see Gaslighting)
- Use of phobias to increase stress
- Gaslighting (attempting to convincing target or others they are crazy)
- Degradation
- Monopolization of Attention
- Induced Debilitation and Exhaustion (restriction of light, activity, air, clean food, sanitary conditions)
- Restraining Agents (use of “non-lethal” biologicals and chemicals, etc.) pharmacological abuse
- Control of Information (limited access to information, medical treatment, lawyers)
- Sensory and Temporal Disorientation (deprivation, overload, assault, manipulation, loud noise)
- Punishment and Reward
- Enforcing Trivial and Absurd Demands
- Induced Desperation (indefinite harassment, sense of guilt, painful physical conditions, illness)
