Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
Casa by the Sea - 1 year later
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-09-08 14:10:00, 4peace wrote:
"First thing that comes to mind is that he *always* has an escape plan, no matter where he is or what he's doing. He never was like that before. He talks semi-often about things such as "if I had to, I could kill someone". He always has a knife on him, and a big one by his bed, he didn't have the *need* for that before. I can't come up behind him and hug him, he still jumps and turns around quickly in a really defensive (and scarey) manner, he certainly didn't do this before. He takes the longest and hottest showers of anyone I've ever known; guess he's still compensating for those 2 min's of cold water.
How could I forget: he *could NOT* fall asleep after he got out, not without dropping from exhaustion. His brain would race if he'd lay down. He'd wake up frequently, then not be able to go back to sleep, he'd have horrendous nightmares, reinforcing that he didn't want to go back to sleep. He's on medication for sleeping now and it's much better.
This is just some of the stuff I could think of quickly after reading your post. If I think of more, I'll post them later."
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Don't take this wrong but it's possible your son is taking longer showers for another reason.
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--- Quote ---On 2005-09-08 14:10:00, 4peace wrote:
"First thing that comes to mind is that he *always* has an escape plan, no matter where he is or what he's doing. He never was like that before. He talks semi-often about things such as "if I had to, I could kill someone". He always has a knife on him, and a big one by his bed, he didn't have the *need* for that before. I can't come up behind him and hug him, he still jumps and turns around quickly in a really defensive (and scarey) manner, he certainly didn't do this before. He takes the longest and hottest showers of anyone I've ever known; guess he's still compensating for those 2 min's of cold water.
How could I forget: he *could NOT* fall asleep after he got out, not without dropping from exhaustion. His brain would race if he'd lay down. He'd wake up frequently, then not be able to go back to sleep, he'd have horrendous nightmares, reinforcing that he didn't want to go back to sleep. He's on medication for sleeping now and it's much better.
This is just some of the stuff I could think of quickly after reading your post. If I think of more, I'll post them later."
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This is a typical psychological reaction to the harsh, nonsensical, inconsistent BM programs.
One loses the ability to trust others and even themselves. It takes some time to recover from this. It's extremely traumatizing to the developing mind.
I hope everything works out. I'm sure with the amount of pure understanding you have been expressing here that your son will come around. He's just feeling isolated, distrusting and untrustworthy (this was, possibly quite literally, beaten into his head).
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-Arnold Schopenhauer[ This Message was edited by: Dysfunction Junction on 2005-09-09 05:38 ]
Anonymous:
yeah I went through the same thing after I got out of PCS. I guess when you're there and they're watching you constantly, you can't leave, you can't look out the window, you can't even kill yourself. It's pure hell. Every little thing because a huge thing because no world outside the walls exists. all you ever do is think of how many chances you missed to run before they brought you there and that you would do anything, even kill, to get away.
Anonymous:
i got out of case 2 years ago this february. it was the absolute worst experience of my life and I still have nightmares and anxiety from the experience.
4peace:
Anon, two years huh? How are you doing, besides the anxiety and nightmares? Do you get along with your parents? Are you in school, or working, or ??
Are you able to make friends and trust them?
Please let us know how you're doing, I'm interested.
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