Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)

WHAT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT

<< < (2/2)

kcadams1980:

--- Quote ---On 2005-09-19 10:12:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Some of these programs are nothing more than "dumping" grounds for kids whose parents have the money to afford to keep their kids under lock and key until they turn 18 and can no longer be held against their will in some program thousands of miles from home.

"

--- End quote ---


I have remember such a tragic example of this -

There was a girl in my group at Cross Creek Manor (WWASP) who was 12 when her parents sent her there. She was 14 when I got to CCM, and she was still there when I graduated (18 months later).  This girl had never done drugs, never had sex, never even smoked a cigarette - her "issues," I guess, were that she was VERY hyperactive (I know ADHD gets thrown around a lot these days, but I honestly think this girl was a classic case of it!) and threw some silly temper tantrums at times... basically, she was a very immature KID whose natural development was stunted at age 12 when her parents stuck her in CCM. She constantly got in trouble with staff for silly rule violations, and after awhile I believe staff penalized her more harshly than others because they viewed her as a problem.  Since she didn't have much prior life experience to draw from, she would constantly get reamed in group for "not being real," and if she ever managed to follow the rules well enough to get on phase 2, our therapist would usually end out dropping her back down & sending her to ISO (isolation) for "not working her program." I believe that her father was a lawyer, and from what I understood they were very well off... not once during the 18 months I was at CCM did her parents come to visit her.  I sincerely believe that her parents wanted to keep her their indefinitely, and since they had the money to do so, the program staff & our therapist worked to make that happen.  It was (is) very, very sad.

OverLordd:
Poor poor girl. I feel for her, I hope she gets out... on a side note I hope the parents pay for their actions.

Antigen:
Actually, that story sounds very similar to what Virgil Miller Newton did to one of his inmates. Took the poor girl 13 years go physically get away from the cult (her mother was on staff). Took another couple of years for her to come out of hiding. In the end, she sued and won millions.
There's no biochemical test to distinguish the so-called manic-depressive person from the elated or despondent football fan. Nor is there any resan to assume the manic-depressive's inner experience is driven by twisted molecules while the football fan's is driven, at worst, by twisted values
Dr. Peter Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry
--- End quote ---

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page