Like I said, Anne, those are your issues and not mine. In your case, I agree with CCMGirl and you really need to get over it. Taking one's inventory seems to be the main goal of this site, doesn't it? You sure spend a lot of time taking mine and telling me what I do and do not believe and what I do and do not know. Take a look inside at that anger, Anne. Is it at parents whose kids are doing well? At parents who are doing well and have good relationships with their kids? At kids who don't hate their parents EVEN after a program? Your issues, not mine.
Yep, they're my issues.....given to me by Straight. You're pretty much the only one I speak to like this, save The Who but y'all are interchangeable at this point. You bet your ass I'm angry. A lot was stolen from me. A lot has been stolen from my kids by some of my families continued belief in the philosophy that this industry is based on. I and every other vet here has got a god-given, program-bred obligation to be angry enough to call a spade a spade. How many more kids have to die? How many more have to lose their families? How many more will be emotionall crippled for life? Those things tend to piss me off, but that's just me.
To repeat, AGAIN. The very basics and fundamentals of 'programs' in the context we're speaking of here are dangerous. There is nothing safe about them. You can't dress it up or tone it down. It's isolation and coersion and it's not pretty. I've spent the last 20 or so odd years trying to figure out who the fuck I am because the chance to do it when I was
supposed to was taken away from me. I adopted a set of beliefs that I neither understood or agreed with. I was in my developmental years and someone fucked with my soul. I'm pissed off about it but I'm more pissed off that last night somewhere, there was an Open Meeting. Those that were in Straight or it's offshoots know what a chill that sends down my back. The fact that people like you refuse to see what's in front of you and that you have influence over someone shipping their kids away is infuriating. The fact that the people who started, ran and continue to defend the program I was in influence public drug policy pisses me the fuck off.
I've earned my anger. Get the fuck off my back.
Christ, if I'm angry then I'm a loser and need to "get over it" here. If I talk about the good things in my life I'm a stuck up bitch elsewhere. I give up. Beer anyone? :silly: ::bwahaha::
