You are naive. You will never find emotional support in this life. Start a physical activity, like running. You could also start drinking, or any combination or the two.
I recommend Carlbrook. Actually, the program was quite strong academically and there was no set-backs in that area. Never was a social problem and there certainly is not post-program. There was plenty of interaction with peers at the program- most from similar backgrounds.
Kid was in program for 1 year- long enough to mature and learn to make better choices.
Do you really think that while kids are in these programs that the parents just enjoy a long vacation? A lot of therapeutic work is going on in the family- both in connection with the program and at home.
I can not emphasize enough to innocent parents who might stumble onto this thread while searching for help with their teens that these anti-program people who post here do not have even the slightest grasp of reality.
Hiring escorts was one of the most "humane" things we ever did for our son. We had lost control. We could not possibly have gotten him to a program without him running from us and perhaps being lost to us forever. The compassionate, professional escorts we hired had an extremely difficult time transporting our son, but they never once gave up or abused him in any way, even when he nearly killed them and himself by grabbing the steering wheel of the car from the backseat. My son never questioned our use of escorts, even in his anger at being in wilderness and later at TBS. Today we are the proud parents of a student-athlete who is achieving his full potential.
The escorts we used were the best. Unlike the mediocre companies, they used a stun baton instead of mace in the removal process. It lessened the risk of any of us being harmed during the removal, and we didn't have to clean anything up (last time the escorts used mace). I cannot reccomend a specific company on this board, the scum-scuking, ankle biters will cause a raucus.
