Yeah, Laura is Vicki's daughter, and she is the aftercare coordinator, or at least was when I graduated PFC in 2001 (wow that seems like a long time ago!) Anyway, she was pretty cool; she let me get away with a lot of shit but eventually booted me (dating and smoking before my time was up.) Oh well, no loss here. Anyway, I'd like to talk to some folks who were in Pathway around the same time as me if they are here. I was intaked on 5/99 and graduated 7/2001. I'd be interested to know what you guys are doing.
In my opinion, PFC surely promoted some degree of "brain washing" and I use that term liberally, but shit, I was conditioned to get honest about just about any little rule that I broke. Looking back now, I can't really understand the mindset I was in. Now, though, I can definitely say with a significant degree of certainty that PFC helped me out. I recently graduated from college and am going to grad school this fall. Regardless of the crazy rules and the miserable times I had in Pathway, I would not be going in the direction I am now without PFC. Now, to be fair, I'm not sure if this is due to the intensive therapy or do mostly to the fact that I was taken out of a very unhealthy environment. Probably a bit of both.
Anyway, again, if there are any grads out there who were in at anytime during my stay, use this private message thing to get ahold of me. Word.
