Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Carlbrook
Anonymous:
"While in wilderness and at Carlbrook, my husband and I were getting the help we needed. "
Anon Carlbrook Parent- would you mind emailing me at randomwalk@earth.us I was a Carlbrook parent also and would like to get in touch with you. I don't want to be too public on this forum.
Thanks.
Nihilanthic:
--- Quote ---On 2005-08-14 07:02:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Maybe we should agree to disagree on this??? Carlbrook students and parents who have posted on this topic generally like the place. Posters who have not been to Carlbrook, are bashing it. Seems like the Carlbrook people have more credibility. I'd give anything if my kid had not had to go anywhere, but I don't have a goddamn time machine. In that sense, I agree with the posters who say that good parenting is preferable to a program. While in wilderness and at Carlbrook, my husband and I were getting the help we needed.
Since this forum is intended to help kids and parents who sometimes have to make hard choices, I'd like the bashers to consider the possiblilty that Carlbrook may not be a bad place. I found this forum when looking for internet dirt on Carlbrook. I didn't find very much. Found a lot of internet dirt on PCS, Tranquility Bay, Island View, etc. The original poster on this topic asked if Carlbrook might be a good choice for his neighbor's kid. It certainly is a better choice than many other places, and I hope that message has been conveyed."
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No, its not physically as brutal at those places, but the backbone of it is STILL LGA seminars. Those are potentially very psychologically damaging, and arent therapy at all. If you had bothered to read up about them, you would find out that its just a pathological effect... its a emotional experience that comes out of it. No actual therapy. It fits brainwashing to a "t" and was debunked DECADES ago.
Plus, it wears off in a few years, so why even bother? It is what it is, and thats all that it is - and you dont know what it is!
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eldon.braun/awa ... hology.htm
http://nospank.net/bean.htm
They go by many names and guises, and people's ignorance of them, but be they called a workshop, seminar, "large group awarness training" (LGA), "experiential"-whatever, propheet, or a rap, it is what it is.
Thats not therapy, its not even lasting, its just replacing their cognitive facilities with emotions and making them spew hippy loveydovey newage buzzword bullshit like "lika you" did for a few years. It ain't therapy, because it doesnt address any underlying issues. It just covers them up with fake happiness and sunshine and puts buzzwords in their mouth.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
--Thomas Edison, American inventor
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Anonymous:
Nihil...Im going to get personal, i read a section of your live journal, sucha sadness, and dark holes you express. Thats why none of your feedback means anything to me, because you are honsetly projecting your own miserable life onto the few places in this world that are trying to help and love people that are just like you! I feel for you, honestly i do, your entries make your life seem so sad, and i am sorry for whatever kind of state you are in, no one deserves to feel so shitty. Maybe you should look at your own shit before you go and make unreasonable accusations about the people that are trying to help people deal with theirs.
Anonymous:
Nihilanthicus's live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/nihilanthic/
Aug.8th...particularly sad.
Anonymous:
I also graduated from Carlbrook...in may of 2005, so about three months ago. I would attest to how positive this program is, and what a good experience it would be for any teenager really, but especially one who is doing drugs, isn't doing well in school, isn't cooperating, etc. It did a lot for me and for my family, and is actually a lot different than most therapeutic boarding schools. The schools the nihil guy is describing sound like lock downs...carlbrook is really well balanced as far as school and emotional growth go, and they definitely DO NOT brainwash you. a huge part of the school is letting you find your own answers, they don't tell you what to think...they give you the tools to figure out what's right for you and your life. this guy does not know what he's talking about...you don't have much information on the school and i would personally listen to graduates and parents of alumni when trying to figure out what's right for a kid who needs to get sent away. all i can tell you is that i, too, am going to one of the best schools in the country...bryn mawr...and, at the risk of sounding corny, it gave me my life back. im not perfect, but i deal with my problems a lot better now, and i am sure that i will have a much more successful, happy life after the program. i am much more aware of myself and i don't shut off my emotions, plus i make good choices and know how to surround myself with positive people in my life. so think what you must, but i think that this would be a very good thing for a kid that got sent away to the woods.
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