On 2004-12-30 21:19:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Want to talk about "REAL" brainwashing? How about MTV, commercials, magazines, movies, etc,, that depict a sexy woman as thin, perfect make-up, perfect hair, perfect teeth, eye candy. This is what I call brainwashing because the viewers take it as fact and strive to be "just like them." Ever see the downside of trying to do that? Bulemia, anorexia, cutting, drugs, suicide? What happens when these kids can't live up to what the media says they should be?
Do your job as a parent and teach them YOUR values, not televisions, and there won't be too much of a problem with it.
Public schools and AD/HD? These kids are brainwashed into believing they aren't good enough, smart enough, strong enough to make it without meds or therapy.
Possibly, but again, YOU have control over what meds your child is or isn't on.
It's beyond my comprehension who you guys can slam something that can finally get through to these kids that they don't have to be like the media thinks they should be
Again, YOUR responsibility.
and that is COMPLETELY, 100% for THEM and THEIR success.
There's nothing to say about this except BULLSHIT. It's about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Thank the Powers that BE that there are media personalities that do whatever they can to change that attitude and belief. Starting over, Oprah, Dr. Phil, Pat Croce and old re-runs of "Higher Ground."
Well, if you consider Oprah and her croney Phil to be "media" or "journalistic" in any way, then that explains a lot.
Yea, I believe my son would have been "deadorinjail" so stop repeating your same old, same old rebuttal.
No, that's the PROGRAMS same old rebuttal. That's why we talk about it. ALL the programs believe that without them the poor unfortunates would be DEADINSANEORINJAIL. Funny you think it's us that came up with that.
Obviously you don't believe in divine intervention and how GOD works through people to make this happen in the physical world.
Well, that's a bit personal but, you're right. I don't.
I made my mistakes as a parent, but I would have been a bad parent if I HADN't done anything and stood by being a victim to the crisis and let my son die or ruin his life in ways that you don't seem to have experienced.
No, you're a bad parent for turning your kid over to a bunch of psychotics who employ degredation and humiliation as part of their "therapy".
Oh, and BTW....I HAVE experienced my kid going through crisis...more than you could even imagine. Somehow we muddled through without your beloved program's thought control methods.
I won't defend other programs or their "model" because I can't.
Good, maybe we're finally getting somewhere
I'm sorry some of you were abused or hurt mentally or physically by the programs you were in.
Well, I appreciate that but I don't want or need your sympathy. I want these places to STOP.
Very few of any of you on this board actually know WWASPS.
A gross assumption on your part.
I came here a while back to try to understand the WWASPS haters and I see right through most of them.
Yes, we hate WWASP because they continue to abuse children for profit.
I understand the folks like Ginger that were traumatized by the programs they were in. I understand the parents that were victims to their spouses. I understand the competitors that WWASPS won't pay for their referrals, I understand those that just want parents to keep their child at home. I wanted so much to keep my son at home and you have NO idea the trauma it caused for me to admit that I couldn't do it alone. I cried for months prior to and months afterward until I began my own inner work. You can say or think anything you want, but having WWASPS support really did save my family in more than breath.
Again, appreciate the understanding but it's not necessary. Don't need it.
Fuck you and your judgments for something you can never understand.
And fuck you and your judgements about us.
No, I didn't agree with the whole process 100%, but I would have never put my son in harms way, he was doing that for himself. Giving him his "rights" We wouldn't have the relationship we have now, based on trust and respect, that we have now.
No, more likely that you have a "relationship" built on fear of abandonment should he step outside of your (WWASP's) lines.
Though I don't see him much, he's away at school,
Is this "school" a theraputic/boarding/emotional growth "school"?
we talk at least once a week and I never forget to tell him I love him and I'm proud of who he is.
You SHOULD have been doing this all along. Shame on you that it took this for you to realize that.
I did NONE of this, he did it and though he hated being in a program, he tells anyone that ever wants to know that without it where he sees he would be and it was, the at the core, the only thing that would have gotten through to him.
Of COURSE he does. That's the way he's been programmed to respond to any criticism of the program.