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The Troubled Teen Industry / Breaking News Story on Teen Advocates USA
« on: May 17, 2004, 10:12:00 PM »
People don't understand what it is like to be dumped into one of these programs where all freedom is take away. Most of us never committed a crime and were never in jail. Those of us who have been there know what it is like to have no way out and no one to talk to. If I didn't get out when I did I probably would have either killed myself or tried to escape.  Escape - why should we have to escape? Why couldn't they just let us go? If someone does not want to go along with things and get HELP (what a joke) then why not just let them go?  I know why they did this. They did it to knock this guy out and make a run for it.  They saw no other alternative other than suicide.  When someone is loosing their mind in a lock down they will do crazy things. This was wrong - no doubt.  But it is also wrong to lock people up who have done nothing wrong or illegal.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / An experiment for WWASP parents and others
« on: May 17, 2004, 09:59:00 PM »
HELL is the only word I can think of.  Almost any home, even an abusive home, would be better. People find it hard to believe that these programs treat kids like crap. Once you are there you realize there is no way out except escape or suicide.  They turn your parents against you and tell them that you are being a liar and being manipulative. Everyone knows this. They also read your mail and refuse to send letters that they feel are manipulative. Being in Provo Canyon School was worse than jail - worse than anything I can immagine. They are liars and they manipulate the parents.  Pretty soon parents become programed into believing that the program is good and right. They even start to believe that the punishments are fair. INHUMANE is the best word to describe what it is like.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Petition to close the abusive Provo Canyon School is gaining
« on: May 17, 2004, 08:42:00 PM »
It's hard for one to immagine the abuse that takes place at Provo Canyon School. I was there for a short time. My parents finally found out what was going on there and came to rescue me. It doesn't matter what your diagnosis is - everyone is abused in the same manner. We were told that we had to take our medication or we would be forced to take it. We were punished if we moved out of line for any reason. When I went to the bathroom without permission six staff members came in and looked at me and told me to never go to the restroom without permission.
I was punished severely for getting out a chair without permission. I was put in isolation for hours for telling a staff member that they could not read my mail. I was drugged and left for dead. No one treated me with any degree of love or human compassion. My therapist was evil and ordered me into isolation and seclusion which was the worst experience in my life. I can now say that I know what it's like to be a prisoner of war. No one living in a free country should have to be exposed to this type of treatment. Please sign the petition. I don't think the authorities will close it down - but they may get the message that hundreds of people aren't happy that it's open and still abusing kids.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / An experiment for WWASP parents and others
« on: May 17, 2004, 08:33:00 PM »
If you are considering placing your kid in a residential facility that uses abusive behavior modification, or if you have your child friend or relativee in youth program - PLEASE subject yourself to the following experiment: Sit on the concrete floor of your garage when it is about 40 - 50 degrees outside, have nothing more than a sweat suit on, stare strait ahead for two hours. After the two hours ask yourself if any person should be punished in such a manner. Realize that your child will be punished like this for any arbitrary reason - like talking, standing, looking the wrong way, rolling their eyes. Imagine if you had to do this for 4 hours, even 8 hours a day. This is what some children are subjected to on a daily basis for any minor infraction. The United States signed the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Would you consider being forced to sit in a cold, small concrete room on the concrete floor for hours degrading, even painful. Seriously, if you did some of these things to your dog you'd probably be put in jail for cruelty to animals. Yet authorities, licensing boards and governments of UTAH and other states that host these programs allow this to occur. In my opinion these authorities should be removed from office because they are allowing children to be abused, degraded and inhumanely punished in the name of treatment. These tactics are used solely to brainwash, terrorize and change minds. That is why the therapists tell you that the "program" takes so much time. The only thing that possibly benefited me was that I was better able to appreciate my freedom and home life because I had just spent time in HELL.

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