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Mission Mountain School / sex and staff
« on: September 11, 2005, 01:43:00 PM »
And the point I am trying to make is that you guys were there years ago, when I was or even befrore, and like mroe than half of the people on this site were not even there at all, so before you guys keep going on about "abuse" and shit like that get your facts straight.  yeah, it sucked get over it, we are adults.  and antigen, stop pulling my posts off if i say the same thing on a few topics it is because i want people to read it, i bet if i was saying bad things about mms or on your side you wouldn't call it spamming.

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Mission Mountain School / why this site may cause depression
« on: September 11, 2005, 01:32:00 PM »
Yes, MMS had some negative points, I think it was not really good for me, but what I am saying is that their entire program has changed and it is nothing like it was when we all went there, so this site is now portraying MMS as it used to be, and not how it is now.  None of the same staff are there and John and Colleen don't even work there.  So, I know I am to blame for all this but before everyone keeps going with this they should get their facts straight, it's one thing to talk about how MMS WAS, but you don't know how it IS.

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Mission Mountain School / sex and staff
« on: September 11, 2005, 01:28:00 PM »
how dare you say I am spamming, i started this dicussion and I have a right to say what I think, you antigen did not go to mission mountain, don't know anyone that went there except from this site and are just jumping on the lets fuck with mms bandwagon. in my opinion you are all making up lies and accusations that have little to no basis in reality, and hurting people in the process, you can't just accuse people of things they did not do, it affects peoples lives in really bad ways.  antigen, chill out i know you are the person that owns this site, which for the most part seems just like a place to get mad at programs and talk shit about them, maybe you got sent to one i don't know but don't say things about people and places you don't even know about.

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Mission Mountain School / sex and staff
« on: September 01, 2005, 11:11:00 PM »
wow, again i would like to say how unbeleivably out of control has gotten.  i just went to the mms reunion, and i was the one who started all this.  the reunion was a lot of fun, it was great to see all my friends, and just so everyone knows, they have chnaged everything about the school, that is why i went i wanted to see if had changed, and it has.  everything about mms is different now, and that was my whole point in starting all this, i thought the way they were running it was not really woking and apparently they realzied that and changed it.  there are now pahses there 1-4, when you gety there you are on phase 1 and then you do different assignments and stuff to get through the phases.  on phase 2 you can have your own clothes and pictures and stuff form home, on phase 3 you get to start like venturing into town, and on phase 4 you get to like go to movies and dances and stuff in the community unsupervised to start to reintegate yourself into real life.  they have an actual structure there now, one girl even had a nose ring.  they were reading their own books, wearing normal clothes and seemed really happy.  they had no reason to lie to us, staff weren't like supervising us talking to them, a lot of them really liked it there, and  i oculd tell they were not bull shitting.  so, i still think there was A LOT they could have done better in my time there, but now i really think they have a good program going and i will stand behind it 100%.  (and no i was not brainwashed or anything, in fact i did not talk to john, colleen, or any staff) so in conclusion stop making accusations without the facts.  now i know the facts and i feel really stupid for starting this.

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Mission Mountain School / why MT is so supportive of mms
« on: August 10, 2005, 04:56:00 PM »
wow. i have not been on this site in awhile and looking at whay everyone is writing i wish i ahd never posted on here in the first place because now i feel responsible for the crap people are saying.  the teen help industry is NOT bad, at least 90% of kids sent a way need to be.  i plan on owning my old wilderness program after college, are you guys going to say i am hurting kids? i have NOTHING against mission mountain all i wanted to do by posting on here is have discussion about how i think that there needs to be a government aganecy created to monior all of these programs.  yeah i disagree with some things that were done while i was at mms, but they are NOT abusive and do not need to be shut down. a lot of the people that are posting in here and saying bad things about mms and the staff didn't even go to mms.  so many things i have read on this site make me sick.  you (whoever your are) have no right to be talking about people that you don't even know, i am talking about someone that said stuff about mike's son is particulat, that is disgusting and disgraceful.  i really wish i had never posted on here.

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Mission Mountain School / Questions for John Mercer
« on: May 31, 2005, 11:07:00 AM »
yeah i am with melissa.  really if you want answers you have to be calm, collected and mature about it.  we should use our names on stuff like that because maybe he will say stuff that was speicfic to individual people.  i dont know, this has just sooooo gone overboard.  everyone is fighting and stuff and that was not what i intended to happen at all.

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Mission Mountain School / MG, WS, and JR... I love you all!!
« on: May 31, 2005, 11:00:00 AM »
damn, who keeps saying that mean shit.  stop it!!!  let them talk to each other without you being rude.  this place was not created so people could fuck with other people.

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Mission Mountain School / For Colleen Harrington
« on: May 15, 2005, 04:31:00 PM »
my god this got out of control this has turned into a war between girls each trying to prove that they are right.  that wasn't what this was about at all.  this was ONLY about trying to make legislature that monitors programs more closely.  not just mms, all of them.  the "teen help" industry is the fastest growing industry in the country and programs are popping up everywhere, i persoanlly think there should be an agency created just to monitor these programs.  not something to get in the way of what they are doing but somehting to make sure that the girls (and boys) come first.  sorry i let myself get off of my own topic even, but this was really all i wanted to get across.

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my god this got out of control this has turned into a war between girls each trying to prove that they are right.  that wasn't what this was about at all.  this was ONLY about trying to make legislature that monitors programs more closely.  not just mms, all of them.  the "teen help" industry is the fastest growing industry in the country and programs are popping up everywhere, i persoanlly think there should be an agency created just to monitor these programs.  not something to get in the way of what they are doing but somehting to make sure that the girls (and boys) come first.  sorry i let myself get off of my own topic even, but this was really all i wanted to get across.

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my god this got out of control this has turned into a war between girls each trying to prove that they are right.  that wasn't what this was about at all.  this was ONLY about trying to make legislature that monitors programs more closely.  not just mms, all of them.  the "teen help" industry is the fastest growing industry in the country and programs are popping up everywhere, i persoanlly think there should be an agency created just to monitor these programs.  not something to get in the way of what they are doing but somehting to make sure that the girls (and boys) come first.  sorry i let myself get off of my own topic even, but this was really all i wanted to get across.

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Mission Mountain School / Didn't we all used to be friends?
« on: May 15, 2005, 04:28:00 PM »
my god this got out of control this has turned into a war between girls each trying to prove that they are right.  that wasn't what this was about at all.  this was ONLY about trying to make legislature that monitors programs more closely.  not just mms, all of them.  the "teen help" industry is the fastest growing industry in the country and programs are popping up everywhere, i persoanlly think there should be an agency created just to monitor these programs.  not something to get in the way of what they are doing but somehting to make sure that the girls (and boys) come first.  sorry i let myself get off of my own topic even, but this was really all i wanted to get across.

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Mission Mountain School / Where is Ron?
« on: April 20, 2005, 09:20:00 PM »
yeah, erin totally rocked.  she was so nice, which doesn't mean she like let us get away with stuff or anything.  it just seemed like she really cared about us and she listened to what we said.

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Mission Mountain School / the truth about it...
« on: April 19, 2005, 02:30:00 PM »
hi angel! i have been waiting to hear from you.  wow, you are a really great writer....anyway, i can't wait to read your story.  talk to you soon.  love, kerry

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Mission Mountain School / the truth about it...
« on: April 03, 2005, 01:38:00 PM »
wow, it is great to hear from a parent.  the parents of the girls there honestly have no idea what is going on (according to my mom).  most of the parents, if they knew, i think would pull their daughters out.   there is very little contact between students and parents, and contact is often taken away as a punishment or "consequennce" even if it wasn't their daughter that did something "bad" mms really stresses group consequences.  which i think is unfair and unrealistic.  in the real world the group will rarely, if ever, take the consequences for one idividuals actions.  anyway, in response to the last post......when was your daughter there?  i was there from 1999 to 2001.  you should ask your  daughter to read these posts and see if she agrees.  i am sorry that your family had to go through all that pain, its great that you are still talking to your daughter.  i know one girl who left mms in pain because of what happened there (she had to live outside in a tent alone for 9 months) and when she got back home she couldn't assimilate back into society and has had years of turmoil, her family doens't talk to her anymore because of it.  she thinks mms had A LOT to do with that.  and i agree.  the staff used to tell my parents that if i didn't buy into the program, or screwed up when i came home that they should kick me out and not tlak to me anymore.  while i was at mms they thought i was "keeping secrets" and so they cancelled my family visits, phone calls, and they wouldn't let me write to them.  they had my parents write me a letter telling me that they didn't want any contact with me until i "got honest".  i didn't see my parents for a year.  so....i started lying.  and then i got to go on a home visit.  weird.

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Mission Mountain School / unity and battle
« on: April 02, 2005, 02:32:00 PM »
hey kat!  i got your e-mail and i will write back soon.....anyway.  i totally agree with you, something needs to be done.  mms was a fictional experience for me in a lot of ways.  the truth was never believed and so i embellished it into a scary sexual and drug history until they got off my back, but then we had to focus on that so for a few years i was told i was a drug addcit and a sex addict, when in fact i was not.  my mom pulled out my "first homevisit plan" last night to show me what i had written on it, i was shocked.  i had made a list of food i could eat to deal with my "eating disorder" (i have never had an eating disorder, ut deb said i was about to have one), under the heading of "sex addiciton" it said i could not masturbate, i mean really that is just ridiculous.  i don't think a 15 can be a "sex addict", maybe they could be stuck in a cycle that would one day lead to that, but there is no way that i at 15, having slept with 2 people was a sex addict.  judging from my journal and assignments at mms i was diagnosed a "sex addict" because i masturbated (normal), looked at pornography (normal curiousity), and was "sexually abusive" to people.  i don't know where they got that but in fact i was sexually abused by other people.  i guess i was sexually abusive because i pursued having sex with my boyfriend.  they also said i was extremely violent and would probably end up being a serial killer, this was just becsuse i listened to heavy metal and dressed in all black.  it was totally unfair of them to put all that stuff in my head, i believed them, and then i was terrified of what i was going to become.  i thought there was no way out of it.  i was stuck.  i am not blaming them for everything, but i absolutley believe that they had a pretty big part in my downfall.  if i were as screwed up as they said i was would i have been able to quit doing heroin, smoking crack, and doing meth on my own?  i don't think so.  i quit doing drugs 2 years ago, no aa or na meetings, no rehab,  i just realized one day that i was not crazy, i was not a failure and i was capable of so much more.  and i haven't touched drugs since.  never "relapsed", never really even thought about it.  now could a bipolar, borderline personality, adhd, sociopathic, hopeless sex and drug addict have done that.  no.  they couldn't.  and just so you know i am not on any medication (excpet for anemia and hypothyroidism), i have a job, i go to school, and i have a great boyfriend.  oh and also, after i quit drugs i didn't have sex for a year and never really thouhgt about it either.  so i think all the diagnoses and "therapy" i received at mms just put of bunch of uneccesary pain and worries into my head that basically just broke me down.  these places NEED to be monitored by outside agencies!

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