Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Did You Receive a Psychiatric Evaluation at HLA?
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--- Quote ---On 2006-02-02 06:59:00, Dysfunction Junction wrote:
"I'm looking for anyone who has undergone a psychiatric evaluation at HLA.
What tests were performed? By whom? What were the results?
Thanks.
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Found one.
--- Quote ---John Doe 1) came here with a very troubling history and equally troubling psychological evaluation. He was constantly involved in trouble including physical assaults on other students. He finally attacked and threatened to kill another student and the on-call clinical staff was called to evaluate him. She determined he was not only sincere but determined to actually try to kill the other student, and signed the order to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital. He did not return to Hidden Lake. The educational consultant who referred him to Hidden Lake was its owner, Len Buccellato.
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It is no wonder why the good people of Dahlonega said "no" to another kiddie jail/psych hospital to be run by the HLA folks.
I think they're starting to get an idea of the severely disturbed "students" HLA imports into their quiet little town and the potential problems it poses when they are not properly cared for in the appropriate setting.
Are there any volunteers to collect the police reports/blotter incidents from HLA so that they can be posted? It would be very interesting to see exactly how much time, effort and money the local PD puts out to deal with the problems HLA creates for the community.
I'll gladly pay for any transcripts or reports if someone will obtain them from the PD.
Thanks.
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"Compassion is the basis of morality."
-Arnold Schopenhauer[ This Message was edited by: Dysfunction Junction on 2006-04-17 05:57 ]
juniper2:
I thought the police in Dahlonega didn't make reports when it comes to HLA?
kid_thorazine:
Im jumping to this thread late but i thought id share my experiences with the Psych. Eval thing.
I was given a full psychiatric evaluation and testing (including the MMPI and all that) The results from that showed that I had very few problems (actually the only problem it said i had was mild to moderate chronic depression or something like that) However, either right before or right after i was admitted to HLA (my memory of this period of time is somewhat hazy) I was told that i was diagnosed by a certain Dr. Hunter at HLA with ODD, although i have never once in my life met this Dr. Hunter person. Then after i was at HLA for awhile i requested to see a psychiatrist for another psych eval so i could possibly be medicated for my depression which was constantly getting worse, my mother also requested this, both of theese requests where frequently ignored. I was only able to see another psychiatrist (Dr. Horowitz or Horwitz i believe) about a year latter when i complained of having chronic insomnia and ADD. When i talked to the Dr he gave me a test for ADD and then told me that they wouldnt allow him to perscribe anything for my insomia out of fear that i may abuse it (although the school hadnt clasified me as an addict, so im assuming it was a blanket restriction for all students) But he did perscribe me to adderall (Dextroamphetamine) which can just as easilly abused, i remmeber finding that quite odd. That is about the extent of my experience with psychiatrists there I genneraly find the whole way they handled the psychiatric treatment to be HIGHLY unethical (although Dr. Horowitz did seem to actually care a great deal about my well being and seemed quite frustrated that he couldnt perscribe me anything to help me sleep.)
Deborah:
Jump in anywhere. These threads are ongoing discussions.
There are non addicting sleep aids. Any reason they might not 'want' you to sleep? Being well rested might interfere with you 'working your program'. Isn't the point to put the kids under as much stress as possible (bait) so they 'react' and then can be punished?
Now that you're out, do you still consider yourself ADD and take meds?
ODD is the standard dx to get most in the door. Zyberkant and/or Witherspoon dx'd my son on the spot- they claimed "based on his father's complaints". No prior dx or eval.
What happened to those too anyway? Anyone know? And M. Burns? What happened to her?
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--- Quote ---On 2006-04-27 17:14:00, Deborah wrote:
Jump in anywhere. These threads are ongoing discussions.
There are non addicting sleep aids. Any reason they might not 'want' you to sleep? Being well rested might interfere with you 'working your program'. Isn't the point to put the kids under as much stress as possible (bait) so they 'react' and then can be punished?
Now that you're out, do you still consider yourself ADD and take meds?
ODD is the standard dx to get most in the door. Zyberkant and/or Witherspoon dx'd my son on the spot- they claimed "based on his father's complaints". No prior dx or eval.
What happened to those too anyway? Anyone know? And M. Burns? What happened to her?"
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Arnold Zilberkant was unceremoniously fired one day after working there for 10 years. You probably will disagree but I found him to be one of the 2 or 3 professional, caring people who worked at HLA (my kid was there for over 2 years.)
Witherspoon, a miserable, manipulative creep (in my opinion) "left" of his own volition - or so I'm told.
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