"Hey it's me again, the creator of this post, and no I will not at this point reveal my name for many reasons which you would not at this point understand. All I can say is that I myself did not experience one ounce of abuse while I was in the program. Did kids get restrained, absolutely! Does that constitute abuse absolutely not. I was never restrained, why? Simply because I chose not to be, those who are restrained chose it, they know the line and they cross it. As far as me not thinking, countless hours have been spent studying, pondering, and actively researching this topic, and I am convinced that these programs do much more good than harm. As to whether or not these programs will be open when i'm done with school, I know now, if they aren't I will simply open an identicle program licensed by the state, they'll never go away."
See thats the things about program supporters. Everything is so black and white, no in between. Your either non working or your not. Choices this choices that blah blah blah. I remember in a seminar they told you everything is a choice. Well thats just not entirely fucking true. If someone walks up to me and punches me in the face, my normal human reaction is to get angry and pissed off. That in my mind is not a choice. The law of life is things happen and most of the time you cant help the reaction. You can choose not to hit them back, but the intital choice is not yours. So lady if youve spent countless hours researching these schools, then how in the hell have you come to the conclusion that they "work" and do "good" for the kids that go there? Do you even know the success rate of the programs? Obviosly not. SO "based on their results they got what they intended." I used to be like you, all brainwashed and conformed. It was nice not to have to think for myself and to have an easy cookie cutter answer for all my problems. However I could not integrally keep that frame of mind and now I am free from all that. I am happier now than Ive ever been. You know its funny. I still keep in contact with alot of budies from CCM and almost all of them agree the program is brainwashing and horrible. However, the few (2) who are strong program supporters and ABSOLUTLY believe it helped them, are frankly out of control and insane. They live double lives, saying the program helped them and that they are changed and doing great, but their relationships and such are out of control, addictive, abusive, and clingy. I would not be supprised at all if you had some serious issues that you are just not mentioning on here to make you and the program look like it worked. The truth is, we were just being kids! Teenage hood is a time of experimenting and learning from mistakes and finding out who you really are. Distupting that process by throwing a kid into an abusive lockdown prison that conforms them to beliefs and ways of being that arent really who they are is just plain wrong and IT DOSNT FUCKING WORK! I am who I was "before the program". In the program I was taught to believe that music would "make me do drugs again" wearing clothing that was "innappropriate" in their eyes would also create relapse. That is simply ridiculous. Many of the ideals and mind sets of the program make little or no sense and try to force kids to become someone they are not. In my mind thats wrong. In your mind thats the way it should be. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that conformity is a good idea. Hopefully parents will wise up, start a relation ship with their kids from the start, gain trust and respect with them through giving them trust and respect FROM CHILDHOOD ON not just when they are teens, and they will realize they dont need these programs and will stop flushing their money away to these programs. Go ahead. Open up your program. Sure you may get a few saps who will fall for your shit and yes, you will make money off of desperate and ignorant parents. But at least the rest of us will sleep well at night with a clean concious.
