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PTSD
psy:
ok whose the smart ass mod who gave the thread the funny name... fixed anyhoo.
Nihilanthic:
Some days I wonder who on fornits DOESN'T have PTSD to some degree or another.
69:
--- Quote ---Probably would have been better off using shock therapy, as in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" style shock therapy. Not the pussy crap they have today.
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I dunno, it's still pretty disturbing to be see it, or be around people who have it done on a regular basis. Sometime after scl I ended up in this day treatment place for dual diagnosis adults who are people with drug or alcohol problems and mental problems. I was the youngest one and the people were pretty nice, crazy as fuck, but a nice group of people. Out of about maybe ieght or nine of us there were two that were etting shock therapy. I even got to lay down on the machince once when they took my EKG because it was in the same room and I asked a bunch of questions. They said when people have seizures after they regain consiousness they feel a little bit better, less depressed. I figured smoking a bowl is a hell of a lot easier to get the same effect, but these people were in the NA mindset so whatever floats your boat I guess. When they come out of it they stumble around in a haze, like a completely drunk person, with a weird smirk on their face and unfocused eyes, competely out of it. That was the funny part, when they would come wandering out into the smokikng/lunch area and the nurse attendant would come running after them and shuffle them back inside. :P
mbnh31782:
When I was searching for a job in college and came upon Three Springs as a place to work and obtained an interview, I was extactic. When I got offered the job in short order, I was even more excited. Here I was, ideallistic college student out to save the fucking world. I mentioned to a few people at my college about my new job that I would have once I graduated. One of them warned me about Three Springs, but I didnt listen. He said: "That place is really primitive and I'm not sure if its a good place to go." But me being the happy go lucky person that I was, wanted to give Three Springs a chance.
I regret it from the moment I got there.
I didnt realize how much of an effect Three Springs had on my mental and emotional psyche. What was termed as "treatment" was nothing more than emotional and mental abuse on the children. What we did as counselors to "force" the children to comply was nothing short of inhumane. It surprises me they didnt give us cattle prods and shock collars to make them comply. I can see how the environment breeds breakdowns, hysterics, and anguish over the thought of having to stay there for longer periods of time.
I was in a very interesting part of the facility. I wasnt in the main program at all. They placed me in the "shelter" which was the "short term" program. The kids were placed there up to 90 days. Some of them were sentenced directly to the program (for example, they only had 90 days or less to "serve"), others were sentenced to long term programs, but they needed somewhere to put them, so they placed them in the short term program temporarily. I got to witness how some kids reacted when they got sent down the hill to the main program. Many were devastated because the short term program was run the same way as the long term program. The only difference was that the girls in the short term earned points to obtain "levels" or "stages" and the main program is more subjective to the girls attitudes and such.
Because the program they were initially in was a short term program, many of them would just suck it up and deal. Some complained to their probation officers and I found myself defending the heinous ways of the program as therapy and that the girl was just being manipulative. I was required to monitor phonecalls and keep an eye on the girls at all times. Therapeutic? no... Heinous and horrible? yes!
Luckily I snapped out of it and refused to take part in Three Springs manipulations.
They took a sweet and caring person and turned me into a monster.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""mbnh31782"" ---It surprises me they didnt give us cattle prods and shock collars to make them comply.
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Don't go there.
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