Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Benchmark Young Adult School / Benchmark Transitions
Public letter of Response to Benchmark Tour Offer
Psianide:
--- Quote from: ""Oz girl"" --- What does make a kid over 18 sign into such a place?
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I misunderstood you question with my first response. I was never at this particular place, and I never signed into a place like this as an adult. That having been said, allow me to reveal my own expereince, was one of trusting compliance, not coersion. My family wanted me to go to some place called Ascent which I had never heard of. I knew I was having some problems, figured it couldn't hurt. I did not know ANYTHING about the place i was going to, and I wouldn't have believed that places like that existed even if I was told. When I walked into ascent I complied with everything asked of me willingly, even though checking in there would mark the moment that I would loose all freedom and autonomy for 2 years. I was 15 so my parents could have used escorts if they wanted too, but they didn't need to because I trusted thier intentions.
Oz girl:
--- Quote from: ""Psianide"" ---
There are ways. Geographical Isolation, stripping one of resources, brainwashing, using relationships to loveones as leverage, extended custody (yes it is possible for a parent to retain legal custody of an adult). You should note that most cults don't employ physical restraint against thier members, and still many members who are genuinely unhappy with their situaiton are retained.
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How the hell do you retain legal custody of an adult that is not criminally insane, severely mentally ill and not able to function or severely enough mentally handicapped that they cant look after themself at all?
Godzilla:
I came across this thread while doing some research on a program for a friend, I was at Benchmark for 6 months, and I would not send the worst of my enemies to that sad excuse of a program ran by anti-semites and bank account draining scam artists. I was one of the lucky people who fortunately was able to walk off the property and leave with all my belonging after being punched in the face by a fellow student and then being threatened by Benchmark with consequesences if I pressed charges! I walked off property 2 days after the incident and with a simple phone call to my father I slept in a motel and had the safest sleep I had had in months. The next day I phoned Benchmark and asked them for my ID, Passport, and Wallet, which they refused to return to me. After arguing with Joelle, who is the daughter of the owner, I phoned the sheriff who was able to retrieve my Passport , ID, and my wallet, but when I opened my wallet to my dismay there was no money in it, $800 cash missing!! How Odd! When i got to the program they took my wallet, passport and ID, and placed them in an envelope, that I sealed and then signed followed by some staff member and I was told it would remain sealed to prove that nothing will be taken out of it. Obviously when I showed up with the sheriff to get the envelope there was no envelope, just my three items in a plastic bag, so when I asked for my money Benchmark played dumb, "what envelope?" "what $800 cash?" This is what we are talking about in regards to them wanting you to fail if you leave the program early or walk off the property. There is nothing i can really say about Benchmark that is positive, I would say they do more harm than good to 100% of the students that come in to the program, and with not a single educated staff member on the payroll I am honestly surprised they are still operating with "street smarts" as their highest educational degree for staff, I mean some staff had High School diplomas but a HS diploma is nothing and does not give them qualifications to be councelors. that they are doing illegally. I could write out all the facts and truths behind Benchmark but its also available for your reading pleasure at this website: http://http://www.benchmarkeducationsucks.com/ please enjoy
psy:
--- Quote from: ""Oz girl"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Psianide"" ---
There are ways. Geographical Isolation, stripping one of resources, brainwashing, using relationships to loveones as leverage, extended custody (yes it is possible for a parent to retain legal custody of an adult). You should note that most cults don't employ physical restraint against thier members, and still many members who are genuinely unhappy with their situaiton are retained.
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How the hell do you retain legal custody of an adult that is not criminally insane, severely mentally ill and not able to function or severely enough mentally handicapped that they cant look after themself at all?
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US law. Here's the ST howto.
Fornits thread on the subject here
psy:
All current / Former students of Benchmark Young Adult School who might be monitoring this page are going to want to read the information in this link:
http://http://www.rickross.com/reference/brainwashing/brainwashing10.html
Benchmark would seem to fall into the "second generation" category. More elaboration on this later as I do more research.
a few snippets:
--- Quote ---Programs used the organization and application of intense guilt/shame/anxiety manipulation, combined with the production of strong emotional arousal in settings where people did not leave because of social and psychological pressures or because of enforced confinement. The pressures could be reduced only by participants accepting the belief system or adopting behaviors promulgated by the purveyors of the thought reform programs.
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--- Quote ---In the newer thought reform programs, attacks appear to be designed to destabilize the subject's most central aspects of the experience of the self. The newer programs undermine a person's basic consciousness, reality awareness, beliefs and worldview, emotional control, and defense mechanisms. We suggest that attacking the stability and quality of evaluations of self-concepts is the principal effective technique used in the conduct of a coercive thought reform and behavior control program.
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--- Quote ---The tactics of a thought reform program are organized to destabilize individuals' sense of self by getting them to drastically reinterpret their life's history, radically alter their world view, accept a new version of reality and causality, and develop dependency on the organization, thereby being turned into a deployable agent of the organization operating the thought reform program.
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IE: If it works you get to be a testimonial. How does it feel?
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