wHO? Most schools list depression as something they treat, even justaMom said she sent her son to ASR for depression.
This is perhaps what's most disturbing about the industry, the fact that many programs claim to treat stuff they can't(or shouldn't) like ADD......
Hey. My parents sent me to program because I'm bisexual... School didn't give a shit. A kid that was sent to the same school for depression and suicidal tendencies in 2002... guess what. killed himself in program. School didn't give a shit whether he was suicidal or not. A girl I knew slit her wrists, so did a guy there who was there for ADHD. Nope. he was never suicidal before that. In 2002, a girl (after she told the staff she was contemplating suicide... and was dismissed as "manipulative") slit her wrists in the bathtub, passed out, and almost died... staff told her she was using it to manipulate (after she attempted suicide they told her this). She got confronted by staff in group about it...
Point is... program doesn't give a shit what the kids are there for... If the kid dies... oh well, they'll hold a special (read "farce") group for the family...
Kids were there for asbergers, add, anxiety, depression.... everything and everything... none of em got helped (though, given enough time... some of em believe they were helped)