Sigrid, California

When I was 20 years old, my oldest brother was shot. It was the most horrible experience of my life and I was completely grief-stricken. It’s just this weird feeling, like there’s nothing to do to fix it.

I went to see a friend and I told him, you know, “I don’t know what to do about it. I don't know what to do with my family, we’re all kind of just not doing really well.” And he handed me the book Dianetics. And I got an auditing session with an auditor. At the beginning I was very sad. I was all crying and feeling grief and just like, strongly—a very strong emotion that I felt when I first found out that my brother had died. And as I was getting auditing, I just felt a huge amount of relief. I felt resolved and it was an incredible feeling—it was probably the most incredible feeling that I’ve ever had in Dianetics.