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The Troubled Teen Industry / SURVIVORS & Parents please read...What would you do?
« on: April 12, 2005, 02:54:00 AM »
I wish I could give you some advice. I am going through a similar situation with my daughter.
I have researched a lot of different treatment options. I have read a lot of stories on this site. it has really opened my eyes to what can happen uder the guise of "treatment".
You can e mail me privately if you would like to.
I don't know where you are located, but you may want to check with your local mental health alliance for treatment options in your home city.
I was a troubled teen also, as was my husband.
My husband spent 2 years in a RTC back in the early 1980's. He still has a hard time talking about it. He is still angry with his parents, but he now understands why they put him there. As a father of a troubled girl, he sees how devastating & lethal these behaviors can be. He said if we could find a safe, healthy therapuetic RTC that would benefit her & help her, he wouldn't hesitate to get ther the help she needs.
The problem with that is, I'm not sure there is any such thing as a safe, healthy, therapeutic RTC out there.
Keep up the good fight!
Greene Bean
I have researched a lot of different treatment options. I have read a lot of stories on this site. it has really opened my eyes to what can happen uder the guise of "treatment".
You can e mail me privately if you would like to.
I don't know where you are located, but you may want to check with your local mental health alliance for treatment options in your home city.
I was a troubled teen also, as was my husband.
My husband spent 2 years in a RTC back in the early 1980's. He still has a hard time talking about it. He is still angry with his parents, but he now understands why they put him there. As a father of a troubled girl, he sees how devastating & lethal these behaviors can be. He said if we could find a safe, healthy therapuetic RTC that would benefit her & help her, he wouldn't hesitate to get ther the help she needs.
The problem with that is, I'm not sure there is any such thing as a safe, healthy, therapeutic RTC out there.
Keep up the good fight!
Greene Bean
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics
is often very tolerant and human. But when fanatics are on top,
there is no limit to oppression.
--H.L. Mencken