Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
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Deborah:
--- Quote ---On 2006-03-22 11:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I'm not in pain but lots of others that come here are. People get whacked off this forum daily just for being honest. The cynicism here is abhorent."
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Get whacked off?
Psychoeducation?
Wilderness realism?
Troll Control:
--- Quote ---On 2006-03-22 11:24:00, Anonymous wrote:
"So, are you going to post your location so that we can get some proper treatment? Or, would you mind listing some therapists that you personally would recommend so that another "quack" won't send a kid to WT? We were lucky. We didn't know she had GAD until the test was administered. That wasn't the reason we sent her there. Again, she liked it. "
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So, what WAS the reason you "sent" her there (doesn't sound voluntary)?
Anonymous:
She had dropped out of school, had nowhere to go during the day, the out-patient community mental hospital told all three of us it would be good and she had had very positive experiences at Outward Bound. She thought it sounded better than her other options (working in the bakery, for example.)She wanted to get out of here, get away from the drug/punk scene and hopefully gain some insight. All of that happened. She's now in college very close to home and doing fine.
Anonymous:
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I think you have another agenda."
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Everyone here has an agenda.
Troll Control:
--- Quote --- She had dropped out of school, had nowhere to go during the day...
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So, basically, she had no diagnosable mental illness that required placement outside the home. Really, she was bored and had no structure. Maybe she was a bit shiftless as well.
--- Quote ---She's now in college very close to home and doing fine.
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Of course, it's no surprise that she's doing well now, because there wasn't much "wrong" with her in the first place. How do you credit WT for solving a non-existent problem? I mean, if her other choice was going to be getting a job, how do you feel WT was needed?
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