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The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy / Did You Receive a Psychiatric Evaluation at HLA?
« on: April 27, 2006, 08:32:00 PM »
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On 2006-04-27 17:14:00, Deborah wrote:


Jump in anywhere. These threads are ongoing discussions.

There are non addicting sleep aids. Any reason they might not 'want' you to sleep? Being well rested might interfere with you 'working your program'. Isn't the point to put the kids under as much stress as possible (bait) so they 'react' and then can be punished?

Now that you're out, do you still consider yourself ADD and take meds?

ODD is the standard dx to get most in the door. Zyberkant and/or Witherspoon dx'd my son on the spot- they claimed "based on his father's complaints". No prior dx or eval.

What happened to those too anyway? Anyone know? And M. Burns? What happened to her?"


Arnold Zilberkant was unceremoniously fired one day after working there for 10 years. You probably will disagree but I found him to be one of the 2 or 3 professional, caring people who worked at HLA (my kid was there for over 2 years.)

Witherspoon, a miserable, manipulative creep (in my opinion) "left" of his own volition - or so I'm told.

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The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy / check this shit out i got a kick out of it and i no you wil
« on: April 27, 2006, 01:28:00 PM »
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On 2006-04-27 10:18:00, Lacey wrote:


"http://tinyurl.com/yj7f3b






Just one of many. If you look back through the old topics, theres more interspersed. I thought it was mildly amusing, however I think my mouth got me into a bit of trouble. Oh well, what can you do?





My situation was an interesting one. Probably in all of this it will reveal who I am, but I'm not worried. My parents had been in a wonderful litigation process since i was about 8 because of their divorce, and it continued on for a long time. There were custody issues at the time i was admitted to HLA. I had just come out of another RTC and a wilderness before that. Instead of thrusting me into the mix of this insane court procession by allowing me to return home, they decided to send me to a kind of inbetween point until things were worked out. Both my parents were assured that I could stay at HLA for 3 months or so until the court proceedings were over and then they could reasess my admittance with no penalty. They were very very wrong. I served my entire term there, a full 22 months, and graduated. All the while, i found out that they had tried to strip my mother (at the time, an unemployed single mother, but the only one of my two parents who really cared about my well being) of her decision- making ability as my custodial parent, and through a guardian ad laudem (sp?) and a new ed con, grant my father (a retired VP of a defense contracting co. for upward of 20 years, Mr. Moneybags as I lovingly call him) sole custody.





So short answer, I was initially sent to treatment in general for a multitude of diagnosis they INFORMED me i had (Bi-Polar, knocked down to BPD, ODD, PTSD, etc...) all of which have since been disproven. I am no longer on any meds, nor see a therapist. "





Are you saying that HLA was trying to strip your mom of decision-making ability and custody?  



And the idea that ANYONE could go to HLA for just 3 months is such a joke.  They will tell you ANYHING to get you sucked in.   It's infuriating how they lie and manipulate the parents (not to mention the kids.)

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The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy / Missing Funds?
« on: March 08, 2006, 07:04:00 PM »
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On 2006-03-08 07:51:00, Dysfunction Junction wrote:
"Is anyone familiar with the "Chapel Project"?


Yeah.  When I was there a bunch of years ago visiting my kid they made a huge pitch to all the parents for money for the "chapel."  I was told then by another parent that HLA has been hitting up parents for years for the so-called chapel.  Amazing.

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The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy / HLA DOESNT HELP YOU, YOU HELP YOURSELF
« on: January 25, 2006, 09:39:00 AM »
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That's great.  I'd be proud of him too.  One question though:  why did he have to find people who wanted to help?  Why didn't they just help him?


I wish I knew.

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The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy / HLA DOESNT HELP YOU, YOU HELP YOURSELF
« on: January 25, 2006, 08:35:00 AM »
You shouldn't post names of HLA staff on this website.  They have sued people.  Believe it or not, they are still watching you.

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