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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Anonymous on March 10, 2004, 02:59:00 PM
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could someone refresh my failing memory and help me recall the exact wording of the 7 Steps? I know they were based upon 12 Steps but condensed. Anyone remember?
Thanks--
survivor from 1979...
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haven't found the steps yet, but I'm still looking.
Take a look at one of the lasts posts on this thread, it'll bring back some memories.
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?So ... 7&start=10 (http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?Sort=&topic=708&forum=7&start=10)Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
--John Adams
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The 7 steps- Here are the first four.
1. Admitted that I am powerless over drugs and came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.
2. Made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand him.
3. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself daily.
4. Admit to God myself and another human being the exact nature of my wrongs except when to do would injure them myself or another human being.
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1. Admit that I am powerless over absolutely everything that goes on here. I do not have control over even so much as my own bodily functions, much less where or if I sleep, eat or speak.Everyone here is insane. Only when I believe that physically & emotionally traumatizing children is an acceptable,rational and positive form of therapy will I be considered sane.
2. Make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of Miller Newton and likeminded individuals who will abuse my body, attempt to destroy my mind and annihilate my self esteem.Agreement to a life sentence by allowing my mind to become a prison of rationality & logic and my heart an absolute wasteland.
3. Made a searching & fearless or self destructive, desperate inventory of all the things a child can imagine could be wrong with them. List all failings, sins or even thoughts of such and then review them with another adolescent who's own self worth is being likewise destroyed by same process and will continue the dehumanization process by verbal reinforcement.
4. Confess everything and anything to as many people as can possibly be squeezed into the sweating room. Turn in your friends and schoolmates to advance yourself. Cry. On command.Most confess to the injury of oneself. Self destruction is the goal.
Just found this website today. Begantherapy wo weeks ago. Think I have PTSD. On a whim decided to look up Straight on the internet not expecting to find much. Mindblowing.
Straight St Pete survivor-10/20/80 -10/20/83
I was there when the Sarasota group first split off and still there later when Atlanta, Virginia and Ohio left. Some of the names her sound very familiar but can't picture any faces. They stood me up after open meeting in Feb 81 and read my diary in front of the group. I laughed till I cried. I had run away and called HRS. They were not happy.Remember me? Nervous about joining this group. Don't want to be hurt by this shit anymore.I had no idea about all the suicides.
Marcia
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yah fuck that shit
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Just posted the first four. 1979 Do you remember Virgil?What the hell was the deal with him? Ever have to sit on his lap? What was up with that?
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I just read the bit about the Dingo. Made me laugh until I cried"Stand up. Why is your shit so solid" I am still laughing. I had forgotten how utterly, unbelievably insane it was. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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When I first got there, I didn't shit for 3 weeks. Just never could produce w/ an audience. So, on day 21, finally it happens! At lunchtime at the building. So we all get the call, after the 20 count or whatever, to get back to group. Observing the 'no talking out in group' rule, which I'd already been informed applied to out of group circumstances, like in the bathroom, I said nothing. After awhile, someone noticed and came back yelling for me to get back in group. "I haven't shit in 21 days, it's happening now and I'm not going ANYwhere till I'm done!
They left me alone.Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.
Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young, DOJ/DEA
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thank you for the info on the steps..kudos for remembering the exact words--your memory is better than mine. I was in Straight St Pete from Jan 1979 to Jan 1981, and have great lapses in my recollection of events. Lots of names, tho--including Marnie, Wanda, Aimee, Leslie, Doug and Chris--a skinny guy who played a synthesizer alot. Good Luck with therapy--it really does help to talk about all these ghosts..
take care--diane s.
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thanks. did we know each other?
MarciaGive me the youth, and Germany will rule the world.
--Hitler
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Hi Marcia. I was in St. Pete around 81 or 82 through 83 or 84. Still can't pinpoint it. 23 long months though.
GREAT interpretation of the steps!!! I may even have to send a copy of those to my dad :scared:. A little eerie seeing the actual ones again. The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
--P.J. O'Rourke
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possibly we knew each other-most people recall that I owned a horse..ring a bell?
DS
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I had an oldcomer that had a horse. But I think her name was Cathy S. They lived up around Tarpon Springs. Lived with a Diane P but no horse. Hmmmm
Lots of holes in my memory these days. Alot of this stuff is just coming back to me. Any other clues?The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Paul Tillich
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I'm a bit uncomfortable giving out to much info online--but I'll go for it. My name in straight was DeeDee. I had brown hair, cut short and dorky, and lived in Lutz/Land O lakes area, but went to school in tampa--at a christian school, of course! Other names I remember : Kathy and Tim Guy, Kerry Hoeppner, Kathleen Winn, Romney Enos, Margaret Heath...these were my fellow phasers who muddled thru the insanity with me.
Any bells ringing? I hope I wasn't your oldcomer..I'm always afraid I was mean to someone and don't remember it....
DS
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I lived at a few houses in Tampa, one in Lutz when I first got there-Oct 80. Kathleen Winn was on jr staff...I have yet to forgive her.
Don't remember much about those early homes as I never stayed more than 10 days. Still DD maybe it will come to me. Memories have a way of doing that lately.Nice to hear from you anyway. :smile:
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marcia, we probably just missed knowing each other--I "graduated" from straight in June 1980 or so, spent a few weeks as a stupid staff trainee, then hauled ass when I turned 18..as fast as my feet could take me. Kathy Winn was not on staff as far as I can remember..we were newcomers together, and I think I outconned staff faster than she did. Keep in touch! Take care-dee
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Stop all this druggie bullshit about White Rabbits! (I know of that song by the Jefferson Airplane) Trying to be "cool" with that image, no doubt?
And what were you running from? Your higher power.
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You're lucky Kathleen wasn't on staff when you were there. She worked really well with Wanda. Wanda would shriek about how if we had to go to thebathroom we could GO ON THE GODDAMNED FLOOR and Kathleen would follow up with how disgusting we were. Presumably she never needed to go to the bathroom. UH OH Seems I wasn't "avoiding myself"just actually had to pee. Like before my fucking bladder burst and killed me on the spot. Wanda looked stunned then horrified then pissed. But Kathleen ENJOYED it. She laughed and laughed and in between laughing fits told us how dusgusting we were. How we could just sit in it. Yep, really really hated Kathleen. Still do. And will until I get an engraved apology.
Kerry Hoeppner I remember. She was on staff briefly. I don't ever remember her being vicious. She always seemed nice, kind even. Wasn't she the only person to ever do the program in the fabled 6 months?
And Margaret Heath. I'm pretty sure she was there when I was. Didn't she have a little sister, tiny little sister that was in the program also?Tracie? If I recall correctly, I think Margaret became a midwife. I can picture Margaret so clearly. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
--John Quincy Adams, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives [July 4, 1821]
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hi marcia--it's really hard to for me to imagine Kathy Winn as staff--I knew her breifly in New jersey before we both moved down here- she was cool there--but when she entered straight, I realized I had to 'fess up to more crap because she knew me too well and I couldn't hide it for fear she would rat me out. Sounds like you feel about her the way I felt about Wanda Minton--that bitch scared me every time I looked at her. Most of all, I was scared of going back to her house--most unpleasant.
margaret did not have a little sister--only a big brother. She did not become a midwife--in fact, she took on straight and closed it down in early '81. I get great satisfaction in knowing she was my newcomer, and eventually stuck it to all the staff..she played the game very well and I am proud of her...
kerry was sweet, would like to know what happened to her. other names which may be familiar:
Leslie (staff) went onto become a nurse, last I heard she was in miami
Debbie Lempert--heard thru the grapevine she was killed in a car accident--not sure if that's true.
Debbie Tinsley--moved to miami, had a few kids...
Doug heminger- runs a gourmet shop in Ft lauderdale--I spoke to him on the phone @ a year ago--he's still goofy and very straight
Mike Burnette married Nancy ( petite girl, on staff) and they live in fla, have a few kids.
Tom Brunette-mikes little brother--is a freakin' millionaire!! He got into something that made him ALOT of $$$$.
Cindy garcia--think she is a lawyer working with her dad
Kim Kincaid was killed by an abusive lover...
I've tried to locate people..most are scared to talk to me or just can't be found..
That's all for now--keep intouch! Dee
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I was in St. Pete at the same time. My first oldcomer was named Marcia. She was nice to me. A blond girl. Are you her?
trish
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Hi Trish
I was a little blonde. Don't recall any other Marcia's in the program while I was there. Hope I was nice to you. I am sorry if I wasn't. How are you? :wave: Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Ben Franklin Letter to M. Leroy, 1789.