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DAYTOP Did Me Great Harm in the Long Run
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Guest" ---You people are nuts. It's funny to read hwo trying to be cool in your response but you're nut jobs. It's fun to blog something and then one of you come back with some stupit crap. I could keep you going forever and you all would follow. Talk about cults what do you think you all have become. If people don't agree with you you attack, if they agree you kiss their asses. You're all a joke.
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To Guest (the one with the allergy to nuts)
Your post is reminiscent of the previously unnamed contribution (probably for the self proclaimed ignorance) I’m going to call you Big Spender… B.S. for short. You don’t to spell out your need for negative attention or your paucity of knowledge. That’s all really obvious. It’s just that you don’t understand or even care to understand the purpose of this forum that troubles you.
Inculcated:
I’m trying to metabolize the food for thought to be had here, but the intrusions turn my stomach.
I’m trying to understand how the reverberations of my immersion within DAYTOP have played out in to my present life. The impact of my experience at DAYTOP calls to mind in me something my psychologist calls “betrayal trauma”. Granted, there are other non-DAYTOP influences that have contributed to the quandary I find myself in, while trying to deal with my experiences. (“Lightening” has stricken me more than I care to share, and taken the life of a girl I loved very much.)
Trust, has been in my thoughts as I examine the fact that it’s nearly impossible for me to feel it. Most of the time, I vacillate between suspended disbelief and a sense of being unreachable. This inhibits my attempts to deal with treatment abuse related issues in therapy. Of course other issues are impeded by my distrust. Knowing this hasn’t helped. Priming, Habituation, Basic Associative learning… These have instilled in me at an early age the only defenses I can conjure (That don’t include disappearing into the nearest patterned object).
Meanwhile, I smile.
How have others who have been harmed by those in the “helping professions”…deal?
Anonymous:
You guys are a joy but I'm disappointed you didn't pick up on my spelling. And oh yeah I would say that I'm the one on target Septic boy.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "Inculcated" ---How have others who have been harmed by those in the "helping professions"…deal?
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That's a tough one. Are you talking about your Daytop experience, or your attempts to recover from your Daytop experience?
Many therapists are really quite ill-equipped to deal with this sort of thing, especially when the event was some time ago. Not only is there damage due to the length of time the wounds have festered, there may also be additional damage accrued from self-destructive choices made as a result of the original wound. And some -- even well-meaning -- therapists can add yet more damage to that brew as a result of their ignorance.
Inculcated:
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--- Quote from: "Inculcated" ---How have others who have been harmed by those in the "helping professions"…deal?
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-- even well-meaning -- therapists can add yet more damage to that brew as a result of their ignorance.
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DAYTOP was one of my damaged in treatment experiences. I assimilated so quickly in to DAYTOP’s program due to my age and the situation I was coming out of. I was desperate for something that made sense and thought for a while that I had found it. That is until being instructed to conspire with silence about the circumstances that sent me to residential. I actually felt more betrayed by DAYTOP counselors (that I had trusted) for that, than toward the perv’.
Of course there is a cumulative effect of other experiences (preceding DAYTOP and following). I’m opting to not elaborate in detail. I have shared these (to the extent that I am able) in current therapy. I believe the ‘ologist means well. (My ‘iatrist just writes scripts). I am so conflicted about the trust that’s required for treatment to be effective.
So, with treatment abuse induced rage and lack of trust, are some people untreatable?
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