On 2005-12-18 07:14:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Your fifth program??? Damn dude "
I've been through seven total. I've been to a trauma-based short term inpatient-followed-by-outpatient mental hospital, two runaway/alternate placement shelters, and then two residential treatment centers. All of these were in Texas, and each one I went to started taking me further and further away from home. I started from 5 minutes away from my house to 3 hours away. After my fifth (Meridell Achievement Center) I was escorted from Meridell to the Dallas/Fort-Worth Airport to be flown to the Atlanta-Hartsfield Jackson Airport, where I was then escorted from the ATL airport to Ridge Creek. All my other programs were not as bad at all, because I knew they were actually trying to geuninely help me, not just fuck with my head as they take my parents money straight out of their wallets. I know the in's and out's of programs, program life, therapy, treatment, addictions, and everything in between. I knew when I got to Ridge Creek and HLA I was in for a downhill experience. So what'd I do? Work my ass off and got out of there. Early. And I defeated the post-grad recommendation.