The story of Serhiy Grebinnyk: mental disorder instead of advanced training

Serhiy makes an impression of a smart, prudent, and very tactful young man. Upon closer communication, it turns out that he indeed is: he has experience in both engineering and directing, can advise on entrepreneurship, and apologizes at the mention of cockroaches. And Serhiy also has an absolutely breakneck story in store that changed the course of his life: “There was a complete failure of reason. It was possible to bring me to consciousness with psychiatric means only to the point where I was not hitting the wall. The condition was such that I jumped out of the window from the second floor onto the concrete. I have two broken legs, but I miraculously did not break my spine.”

It is 2008 outside, and the consequences of the global financial crisis are gradually reaching Ukraine. Serhiy has a car loan that he wants to close as soon as possible. At that time, he was working in an advertising agency. In exchange for a salary increase, the director offered Serhiy to undergo personal growth training using NLP technology. At first glance, it was a three-day training for beginners. “They claimed to help develop emotional intelligence. But what was happening inside was more like some kind of occult initiation. I went crazy right during the training. If it had been a little longer, I wouldn’t have come back,” the man still recalls with astonishment.

According to Serhiy, the thread connecting to reality remained with him after the training thanks to his hearing disability. As a child, he was mistakenly injected with a double dose of antibiotics, which caused partial deafness. But it was during the training that this worked in his favor since specific music was used to put clients into a trance state: “The same music was used in the white brotherhood to turn off certain brain centers.”

Over the following years, Serhiy delved deeply into the topic of psycho sects, psychology, and esotericism. First of all, to explain to himself what had happened to him. Now he describes it this way: “A person is driven into a state of shock. They call it a ‘breakthrough’. You get so stressed that you don’t react to anything anymore. Wherever they lead you, you go. You move into some other reality. I’m slowly getting out of this reality.”