Silence helps the abusers to continue. We have more power than we think. However, I perfectly understand the fear and shame victims go through so they do not want to speak publicly about this.
Just a side note about the documentary, I don't even know how to put into words how useless psychologists are with regarding abuse by psychopaths. I can't find the words. Sometimes I think what psychologists learn at Uni is worst than knowing nothing. When these victims went to a therapist for help, the therapist not just did not help, but probably made it even worse. This happened in a critical moment when their lives were at stake. Aren't psychologists going to be accountable ever for being so unhelpful, even harmful, yet, they even ask you to pay you for this.
Not sure if this makes me angry, as this seems systemic and it is difficult to point at an individual's fault. It is rather frustrating.
If my abuser was dead (one of them), I will sure speak publicly about this in the same way these victims did. However, as authorities don't seem to understand the problem completely, or they have just started to understand it, these criminals are everywhere free to harm the next victim and keep doing it over and over and over and over, because there's nothing else they can do.
It seems like a vicious circle: (1)victims can't speak because they are afraid of these individuals -> (2)authorities/psychologists don't understand -> (3)criminals keep destroying lives around them -> and then it goes back to (1) in a loop.
I hope I never hear again someone saying that a psychopath is not a violent person, and that there exist something called "integrated psychopaths". These statements are very wrong and are very dangerous.
A psychopath is someone without consciousness, they are hardwired to cause pain and humiliate, the fact that you, or someone else can't understand how this pain and torture is produced, it doesn't mean they don't do it anyways. These statements are very harmful for the credibility of the victims, of you and me, and the fact that psychologists keep saying this is directly harming me, my life. These statements isolate the victims, take their credibility away and the only chance to help in a life or death situation.