Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
son in WWASP program
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-04-13 16:48:00, wwasp dad wrote:
" i'm just curious, were you in a wwasp school?? if not,where are you getting your info
thanks, wwasp dad
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What "school" is/was your kid in?
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---and the thing that scares him more then anything is the thought of that drug, and what would happen if he did it just once again...........
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That's because WWASPS specializes in attack therapy, trying to scare you into submission and from returning to old behaviors. They do not address the issues that cause drug use, or other problems, they think drug use in of itself is somehow curable. Your son will return into the exact same environment that caused him to choose to do meth in the first place, so why would anything change? If you use the home contract stuff when he comes home, it will be worse. Of course it scares him, because he knows he is not addressing the reasons why he was doing drugs. Meth isn't some contagious disease you get, you choose to use it.
Anonymous:
--- Quote --- i can't argue the results..oh, and by the way-his mouth or nose isn't in a pile of METH either---
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Yes, you succeeded in locking him up. He could not access drugs, sex, alcohol, ciggarettes, ditch school, or do any of the other things that teens get sent to these facilities for. But he is not doing this by choice, he has been coerced. So think about how effective all this will be when he gets out. WWASP camps are an illusion, a fake reality in which you can force teens to look and act good. What they aren't, is treatment. Spending 18 months locked up in an alternate reality can change anyone to appear 'better', especially if the whole idea is to coerce teens to progress through a level system, generic in every way. There is no individual attention at WWASP, every teen, no matter their issues, is treated the same. Like cattle, they wharehouse and try to pack 'em in to maximize profit, at the expense of the teens there. Sure, it will keep a teen safe so long as they are locked up there (unless they committ suicide, which has happened), the problem is, if they had serious issues to begin with, they will go unaddressed. Since your son has a serious drug issue it seems like, it won't dissappear when he gets home. You can't punish drug use out of teens, or coerce it... it only causes teens to learn to fake everything. They learn to live in the living play that is WWASP and do what is necessary to get through it. How does this help you once you get home though? It doesn't. The social interaction is so programmed and strange he will have a hard time making friends or reconnecting with his old ones when he comes home. He will be isolated, because of this experience. Maybe I'm wrong, but I was sent for a very similar reason and I am talking from experience... and many others that I know. If you want to go check out the myspace groups and read through some of the threads and you will see for yourself.
emaree:
I understand what caused you to send your child to the program. I don't blame my parents now for doing what they did, but deep down I do blame them for not listening to me or believing me when I tell them how damaging it was to me psycologically. There are some good messages hidden in the program's bullshit, and one of them is "let go." I know it may not be easy to accept that your child is lost to meth, but if he has been there long enough to be sober and think about the consequences of using meth, he's been there long enough. Trust me, he has already made his decision about whether or not he will continue to use, and no other progress will be made in the program, unless it's detrimental progress. If he hasn't decided for himself that he doesn't want to use anymore, he will when he gets home, most likely out of anger or to fix his feelings of hopelessness. My boyfriend used meth for over a year and he got out of that shit on his own, because he woke the fuck up to what he was doing. If that's what your son needs, he got it, and past that all you can do is support him in that decision, not hurt him by subjecting him to a long stay there. You're hurting him by keeping him there. I know that they use all these fucking testimonials and shit in the parent support news and elsewhere to strengthen your decision to keep him there, but half of them are written in the program, or fresh out of the program, or from kids who are so brainwashed they don't know which way is up. He may sound like he is okay and takes pride in the "tools" he's learned, that will change the minute he comes home, or shortly thereafter. I think I read somebody else saying that those tools are used in an isolated, unrealistic enviornment - and that is completely true. When I got home I was lost for a good first year, and those fucking "tools" did not help me deal with an abusive boyfriend, or get out of depression, or pay rent when I was kicked out by my overzealous parents. There are other options to help your son, better options. Pull him, and he probably will be much more willing to work on things with you. He knows that he was fucking up, he knows that things need to change. But right now his anger and sadness is probably stronger than his will to change, and that creates an extremely bad outlook on life for when he comes back and tries to succeed. I've talked enough, but I know that I would be much better off if my parents had believed me and given me a chance to get out of there. I am fucked up for life, and I wasn't even subjected to the worst of the abuse I know goes on at these places. They are fooling you, and every day that goes by you're putting money into the hands of people that treat him like dirt.
Anonymous:
to wwasp dad,
As a mother of a former wwasp student..I say to you. Your son is now a robot under the control of the WWASP system....and you are brainwashed by the Seminars. I removed my son as soon as I found out what was really going on. The children are not lieing and manipulating about everything as they tell you they are. When I picked up my son he did not stop eating for 2 days. I'm ashamed of myself for not getting the facts ...as we parent all act in desperation. The long term cure or harm is what you should be thinking about. The childrens spirts are broken and at that time the children start working the program. As any of us would if we are brainwashed.
If I could shut down every WWASP school in this country would. $3000.00 a month they cannot hire certified instructors or councilors. It is hard to find a school that will take any of the credits your child receives while he is there.
Sir you have found only a temporay fix. Your bigger problems will come later when the nightmares start. After your son wakes up from the state of a ROBOT
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