Why? So after holding teens against there will for YEARS, they get free advertising machines who spout their propoganda for years. They get parents who refer other kids to the program, they get the appearance of a succesful program. The glazed over stare of a upper-level student and their parents at PC1 is enough proof. You've seen the look if you've graduated. The look on parents' faces when they have an independent thought and think, 'hmm- maybe this is all bullshit'. Until a group of peers reassures the parent the are doing the right thing. It's all a big scam to make money.
Tell me this since you were at the program, as was I. Why does the program cost so much money? Did you receive what you would consider 'treatment'? Did you see a therapist, a psychiatrist, a doctor? Why would spending so much time isolated from you family help you acclimate when you return home?
The entire program is setup as a system of control, including the seminars. Why are the seminars spaced so infrequently? Because it costs your parents MORE MONEY! Think about it. The seminars are a joke, the people that 'give themselves' to the seminars are retarded. I've been through them, I know they are a joke. To some people they aren't a joke, and take it all to heart. These are definitely 'brainwashed' people. The parents who decide to become facilitators.
I went through my first discovery with David Gilcrease as the facilitator, and that guy is crazy. I'd love to run into that fucker sometime in public, he humiliated everyone in the room. :skull: The next facilitator didn't, and I easily made it through. So it all depends on a lot of things, but I know for a fact, from first hand experience, these programs are just a scam.
They cam about in response to parents demands for 'tougher' programs, based not on reality and scientific evidence of what helps teens. No, this is based on Lifespringn theory of mind control. Why do you think they call it 'behavior modification' and not treatment? Because they cant call it treatment, because it isnt. WWASP is a business, only interested in making more money. They will take in any kid they can find, no matter what. That kid will be stuck there for a couple years if there parents can afford it, and come out worse than they went in usually. Worse because they learned to adapt to a program, not the REAL SYSTEM we all live in as adults. It puts them at a distinct disadvantage, and the program becomes all they know. You need to learn to cope in the real world, because its reality. The program is not reality, its a place for rich parents to send their problem kids. What happens when a facility has 500 kids and maybe 2 dozen local staff 'without college degrees and training'? Abuse happens, these type of facilities attract sadistic people. :skull:
We see recent graduates every once in a while come on these boards, and they all sound like you. I wish you good luck in your life, because after being there for a long time you'll need it.
