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« on: May 17, 2005, 10:56:00 PM »
The day of infamy lives on in my memories as always on this day...

May 17, 1986... 5515 Backlick Road, Springfield, VA... A nice sunny Saturday in May... I remember walking in through the front glass door... Seeing the photo of Princess Diana and Nancy Reagan on the wall... Being led through a hallway to meet Mr. Kniseley and listening to his lies... Then being led across the hall to Kenny Washington and Mike Riddle... Then the coercion began... 6 hours later, and my bladder finally emptied, with a small amount going into a plastic cup, and a strip search to boot... Being led into that barren white room, with all of those blue chairs, and a few different chairs... The sea of people flailing their arms in some trance-like state... Let's have a song... You've entered the Twilight Zone... Nope, it's Stalag 5515... and it's for real.

It seems like a dream to me which I know was long ago, but is so fresh in my head...

Fast forward to today: Am I really still caught up in something which happened almost 20 years ago? Is there a reason why I still seek to understand my thought reform as a hindsight, or am I just trying to figure out what happened to me so long ago? Will I ever return to a state of normal thought patterns? Or am I just in search of other people who have experienced the same thought reform I have experienced, and glad to know they are still alive and trying to make it past each new day?

Many thanks go out to the people which I have recently reconnected with via e-mails. I do hope to hear from more Springfield survivors in the future. Also, my thanks go out to the people who post on this site and to Ginger for maintaining it and not charging us any money. You rock!  :nworthy:

"Thanks for letting me share." - I couldn't resist...  :smokin:
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2005, 12:25:00 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2005, 07:45:00 AM »
As we would say out here in da islands...

MAHALO!

I lit a candle for all of us... and then I lit something else...  ::flipflop::  ::flipflop::
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2005, 11:02:00 AM »
You're very welcome. Much peace. May you ever dance through life asif w/ two right feet!

Religion is all bunk.
--Thomas Edison, American inventor

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« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2005, 12:38:00 PM »
Oh my God, I just got the chills, Springfield '86, backlick road, it takes me back.  I arrived in December of 86.  I just heard about this website from another survivor.  Wow.  
Anne
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« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2005, 04:18:00 PM »
Anne? Welcome. Glad you were able to locate this site. Would you please e-mail me or private message me with some of your information, as I am sure I would remember you and know others you would probably remember also.

Aloha,
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« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2005, 10:08:00 AM »
[ This Message was edited by: fka on 2005-06-02 09:57 ]
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« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2005, 09:19:00 PM »
Aloha My Friend
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2005, 11:52:00 AM »
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On 2005-05-21 07:08:00, fka wrote:

"remember Leslie Murden telling us how we would always remember our Intake Day because it would be the first day of our Sobriety?



the story didn't quite turn out that way did it."


Now that you mention it, I do remember her saying that, but I thought she said because it was the first day of hell, ahem... I mean "awareness", so you could no longer get high and avoid your emotions...

Now I just wish we had an emoticon which was a small pile of dog shit... Oh well, I guess this will suffice...  ::puke::  ::puke::
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2005, 11:54:00 AM »
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On 2005-05-21 18:19:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Aloha My Friend"



ALOHA to you... Could you e-mail me, my friend?
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« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2005, 02:00:00 PM »
Mahalo; that means trash doesn't it?  They put it on all the trash cans so it must mean trash...lol.

1-25-86 for me.  Amazingly I managed to get thru that god awful place with a little sanity intact.  I don't know what I would do should I happen upon any of the former executive staff today.  It took me a very, very long time to get to this point today where I will write about my experiences.  

I did manage to scrape together my sanity, finish college, graduate degree, and post graduate education and I have a great job.  My personal life is a complete mess as I have an incredibly difficult time being 'open' as, among other things, I fear it will be turned against me in some perverted way as it would in group.

I still remember that god damn confidentiality rule:
As a client of straight Inc, both the anonymity, and the confidentiality of my records is guaranteed....someone else can finish it.
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« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2005, 07:15:00 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2005, 08:36:00 PM »
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On 2005-05-26 11:00:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Mahalo; that means trash doesn't it?  They put it on all the trash cans so it must mean trash...lol."

 

Mahalo does mean "Thank You", and you, my friend Anonymous, must either live here in Hawaii, and know that joke well with the rest of us, or you have spent quite some time here. Yes, it is on all of the trash cans, especially at McDonalds.

Pakaloha my friend...  ::puke::
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Unless I cop out of the program and realize that $traight was a money producing cult and realize the only people who get confidentiality are attorney-client and physician-patient relationships... and even then the court may overrule you...



Hi Anonymous,

Could you please e-mail me, or give me a heads up on this post as to who you are? I know I must know you, as we were in there at the same time comrade. Glad to see you are alive.

Aloha,
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« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2005, 02:39:00 PM »
hi all. I was in straight springfield from 82 till 84, and I remember leslie murden when she came in, I think.  if I recall correctly, she was 26 years old, right?  thin brunette.  I was on 5th phase and had to escort her to have her wisdom teeth, which were impacted, removed.  the staff would not let her have any pain meds during or after surgery.  she was still there in '86?  what a waste of life.  wasn't she married and got a divorce from her 'druggie husband'?  whatever.

does anybody know what happened to barbara and nancy annunziata and leslie?  I remember group screaming at n and telling her that she wasn't pretty like her sister.  that was really therapeutic!  ?  nice staff.

also, anyone hear about christine sabota?  I felt so bad for her.  she was put in the program by her parents after staff told them they would throw her brother mike out if they didnlt put christine in.  sacrificial lamb.
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« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2005, 04:57:00 PM »
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