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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Oz girl on June 17, 2007, 07:13:06 PM
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Was anyone else sent to a bizarre summer camp?
by this i dont mean wilderness or anything designed to punish. But i do mean something which along with the cookouts and swimming lessons had perhaps one of the following;
compulsory lessons in some kind of fringe political ideology
an excessive emphasis on religion. Not just saying grace with meals or an optional once a week service but something along the lines of jesus Camp
some kind of military undertone
Anything else quirky
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Well... this one time... at band camp..
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http://www.fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?p=56172#56172 (http://www.fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?p=56172#56172)
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One summer in high school I went to a two week long cheer leading camp. It was very competitive. The girls were very cut throat. Too many politics that I just didn't understand. My team frowned on me if I ate more that 300 or 400 calories a day. Had to keep up the anorexic body image. Well toward the end of the camp I came down very sick. High fever. Ear ache. Body aches. I went to the camp nurse who told me I had an acute inner ear infection and needed to go home and get on antibiotics. My squad made every threat short of death if I left. They needed me for the final competition.
I stayed. I was absolutely miserable and ended up with a burst eardrum.
The pressure was so immense. By peers and by staff.
It was a horrible experience. I didn't go out for the squad my senior year. The summer camp experience ruined what should have been a healthy normal high school sport.
There is such pressure on kids to perform in the sport arena.
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Who said its about fun or anything healthy anymore!
COMPETE COMPETE COMPETE! SUCCEED SUCCEED SUCCEED!
RISK IS ALL PART OF THE GAME! HA! HA!