Aloha George!
Can you please send an e-mail to me with your last name? I am sure I will remember who you are, but I just want to confirm. I can understand your hesitation in using it.
Glad to hear you don't think of the warehouse too much any longer. I didn't think about it for a long time, and about a year ago was when everything I "stuffed inside" for so long started to return. Since that time a year ago, lots has changed in my life. After going through a divorce, and then a backstabbing boss at one of my favorite jobs/careers I ever had obtained, I about went through a mental breakdown.
Rather than let these things get the best of me, I instead decided to sell everything, pack my bags and move to Maui! Now I have been here for 9 months, and I have loved every last minute of it. I am preparing to head over to the Big Island in a week or so, and will be returning to school there to complete my Bachelor's degree. Also, doing a good amount of photography which is going well, and will be obtaining my real estate license here real soon to begin selling real estate in Hawaii.
Life is too short for me to be thinking about all of the issues I had to face in $traight and after $traight. I feel deeply sorry for all that we had to endure there and hope our experiences and lessons learned there will help improve the outcome for our future generations' children. I know many of us are hopeful and determined to see that abuse against troubled children is NOT used any longer as a method of treatment.
Treatment does not equal abuse. Many of us that were there back then and those which are still in other abusive rehab facilities have had our lives changed PERMANENTLY as a result of these cult-like organizations. Most of us have been able to overcome the emotional trauma experienced there, however for some their pain and trauma was so great that they require constant medications to function. Others decided to end their pain and suffering in their own ways. Our thoughts and memories of them are all that we have left.
Hopefully, those of us who have been fortunate enough to discover this site and other sites like this have begun to learn the cause of some of their pain. Others, are finally able to reaffirm that they are not alone. There are thousands of us who have probably been in these "camps". However, I still think we are only in the infancy of beginning to see more and more people like George finding this site and others. Maybe one day there will be a memorial dedicated for all of those fallen victims of the "War on Drugs: A War Against Ourselves", for as George so clearly stated "No one can understand that crazy experience unless you were there no doubt!"
Aloha!
