Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Brainwash, Mind Control, Blind Trust
Anonymous:
IMHO - If a parent attended a seminar or not, they were lead to believe a very different program that what many bought into. For Example, so what if Karen or any parent didnt attend a seminar, the sales reps (unqualified most likely to diagnosis or even credentialed to treat) will tell the parents exactly what they want to hear. I understandt they -sales reps- are trained to do this. If your kid is ADD/ADHD, then it is for them, if the kid is Bipolar, again, they will match you up, if defiant, agian a match, you see whatever the problem the sales reps are trained to lead you to beleive they can help. Even the most educated people, like lawyers, doctors, accountants fall for this crap since they are DESPERATE. Desperation leads you to beleive the good words at the other end of the phone. Maybe a answer to your prayers or whatever. Blind trust, you betcha. The best line for the abroad programs is - your child will have a cultural experience - How about the promises of great academics. Give us all a break. You need to live to know what I am talking about. And I bet many of you do. Not the WWASPie's they need to keep the sales pitchs alive.
Carey:
--- Quote ---Even the most educated people, like lawyers, doctors, accountants fall for this crap since they are DESPERATE. Desperation leads you to beleive the good words at the other end of the phone. Maybe a answer to your prayers or whatever. Blind trust, you betcha.
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This is B___S____. It does not matter what kind of degree someone has. It has to do with common sense.
Yeah, desperation can make educated people loose sense of reality...but for how long? Are they still desperate after the child is placed in a program? Are they not able at that time to sit back and reevalute the situation based on the experience that has begun after placement?
Ok, three weeks is up and they are not allowed to speak with their child as they had been told they would be able to. How many left their child in the program anyway? How long did they wait before communication was granted? How long before they pulled their child?
Any parent that left their child in the program without open communication between parent and child is without common sense! Any parent that was fed by the seminars is without common sense. Any parent that left their child with untrained staff in an unliscensed faciltiy is without common sense.
Anonymous:
Sorry, but I need to say this:
CAREY YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE. O-kay, I feel better now.
Too bad we all are not as perfect are Scary Carey. Stupid me, I know this will start a bunch of Bull, but like others have said, sometimes she just pushes you there.
Anonymous:
ditto ANON. The b-tch thinks she is so holier then thou since she believes she would have never fallen for the scam. B____ S____ to you Scary! :grin: Any your ugly ID.
Antigen:
You want to know how powerful and effective this kind of brainwashing can be? Just check out this site: http://elanalum.com/ This is a site run by a former Elan staffer who, 20 or 30 years hence, is still 'in the program'. As one might expect, the whole site is locked, controled and restricted just like a WWASP site. So I can't give you a direct link to their forums, because copying urls or viewing page source code is a no-no (not impossible, just really inconvenient)
To get to their discussion forums, to through the Communications door, then to the relating table.
Have fun! Gain insight. But don't piss Ken off or he'll ban you and then trash you like he's having his very own fantasy GM and you're the newcomer.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
--Thomas Sowell
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