Also has anyone else noticed another theme with PV
PV acting like an insane bunch of interrogators in a war movie about the cultural revolution or the inquisition or something?
in every survivors story over on cafety they absolutely torment these kids in relation to confessing to things, "horrible things" that they didn't even do!
not allowing them to speak for months and only letting them write three questions a day,
even in relation to asking for more time in the restroom,
as a punishment for not confessing enough?
Perhaps not being allowed to go to the bathroom properly contributed to the liver problems?
i really don't know but it seems additionally cruel considering!
when i was in this was very much the case
i really did spend eight months in STU too!!!
yes that one room with the lights left on all the time and the cubicles with no fronts and sitting on a cot in front of the nurses desk, constant restraints and eating with a plastic spork in a hospital gown!!!
all the restraining was really traumatic too they were forever restraining someone, and everyone else had to do, like Zen said, this duck and cover thing where we all grouped together and listening to them choke some sobbing person to death. It was hell again hell!
and of course not being allowed to go outside for eight months!!!!
i added them up, I spent six on arrival and they sent me back for almost two more later!!!!
The girls made up all sorts of extreme stories because staff made them!
i think i told them something about smoking heroine,
i had seen a TV show about it!!! Can you really smoke heroine?
i wouldn't have known were to find heroine if my life had depended on it!
everything is a drug too, aspirin, yes i abuse my aspirin!!!
even drugs the doctor or shrink gave you and you only took as prescribed!!!
we had to make lists of all the drugs we had tried, and they demanded a good list not two things, pot and alcohol, of course you can't just say pot or alcohol either, it's joints, pot smoked in a pipe, pot smoked in a cigarette,
you had best think of every way you could smoke pot and then write it down
alcohol the same, beer, wine, vodka, jack daniels and so on,
on the rocks and straight!!
I think they had us write down every time we had encountered alcohol or pot or apirin as well, they had us rewrite our accounts over and over again too! with the lists getting longer and longer and more far fetched with each retelling.
and things like biting your nails are self mutilation
i remember writing a couple page account of my self harming nail biting,
that was greatly exaggerated!, my cuticles bled and bled and so on
you had to come up with something,
ie. my cuticles bled and bled and i'm a self cuticle mutilator
or you were consequenced and badly punished
or running away to a boyfriends from a group home is prostitution
i remember them telling this seventeen year old that
because she ran away to her 18 year old boyfriends.
One girl told them her brother had HIV and all these stories about the kind of crap they just eat up, drug use and sex and so on
the pressure was incredibly intense and the line of questioning incredibly led!
you confess to this or else!!
and everything qualifies as whatever it is they want it too,
ie. cuticle self mutilator
with punishments like not being allowed to speak for months or to ask for extra time in the porta potty!
I was also put on silence for a long time, three weeks or so?
it really got to you because they would use it to torment you
and you would have to talk to do stuff like ask to go to the bathroom!
it was like inquisition interrogators, they didn't want to hear real stuff
like i drank or was stalked or smoked a joint!!!
or sexual harassment and bullying in high school are bad
or my parents are getting a divorce
they like to get you to confess to all this random crap and then they tell your parents,
the girl who said her brother had HIV and all this other stuff it backfired,
they told her parents and of course the brother did not have HIV and the girl wasn't in for drug use and hadn't used any of the drugs and so on
then she got into all sorts of trouble of course
it was a horrible situation and just an abusive farce
i don't know what the hell the point of PV is?
to make more money for PV and make the kids feel like they disserve abuse,
so they don't sue them or something or talk about it to much until years later when they are adults and better able to process it all without just feelings of overwhelming horror?
confessing and work detail was all we did really!
we sat on our beds in STU and wrote confessions and went to group and were abused and wrote confessions, it was like a communist prison camp
brainwashing for real!!!!
