Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
I'm a 16 year old and I think I need to check myself in to a
ehm:
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"bullshit
just not even buying it sorry
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
-- John Muir
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Ditto.
Time's fun when you're having flies.
--Kermit the Frog
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FaceKhan:
First of all. I don't buy it.
There is a big difference between a kid asking their parents to go on a wildnerness trek that ends up being some kind of cockeyed wildnerness therapy bullshit. My friend Aaron ended up like that. He thought he was going on a 3 week camping trip, and so did his parents. Around the time he was being strip searched and told that if he did not improve his behavior they would let him stay another 3 weeks at no cost to his parents he realized how fucked up the place (Catherine Freer) was. It did not take long for the staff to realize he was more or less normal (that and his father is a big gun lawyer)and they pretty much left him alone. The other kids there were sent for all kinds of crazy shit but there were plenty of minor cases too.
Either way big difference between a hike in the woods and a lockdown concentration camp complete with rape, beatings, starvation and torture.
If his cousin is doing well, chances are he is not out of there yet since that seems the only time when even the most hardcore parents are convinced that the kid is fine. Even the parents who believe the program saved their kids don't delude themselves to thinking everything is fine when they self-destruct a few months after getting home.
Anonymous:
My mother and dad met with the folks from TB last Monday and they have agreed that I am on a way to death or jail based on my lifestyle. I skipp school and scream at my elders. It is time to grow up; I go in next Monday adn I'll be back on this board when I become a graduate and a man. Until then, thanks for all the encouragement I have received.
James
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2003-10-30 04:36:00, Anonymous wrote:
"My mother and dad met with the folks from TB last Monday and they have agreed that I am on a way to death or jail based on my lifestyle. I skipp school and scream at my elders. It is time to grow up; I go in next Monday adn I'll be back on this board when I become a graduate and a man. Until then, thanks for all the encouragement I have received.
James"
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I don't buy that you're a real kid, I think you're trolling for flames.
If you are a real kid, your parents are using a dangerous sledgehammer to swat something that's alittle bit bigger than a fly, but not at "death or jail" level---except for a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct for screaming at people, someday, if you don't learn better ways of communicating.
Anger management training and letting you either decide to quit school and get a job, go to alternative school, or get your act in gear and quit skipping school are the more sane and proportional solutions to that level of problem.
Being a high school dropout is bad, but it's not exactly the same thing as "jail or death."
People do survive it, get GEDs, go to community college and get an education, etc.
Sure, it's not the track to Harvard, but it's not nearly "jail or death."
When you get right down to it, the risks from being a high school dropout are less than the risks of being a psychiatric casualty from a dangerous "program" which substitutes Stockholm Syndrome and other mind control techniques on a one-size-fits-all basis for actual competent standard-of-care treatment of the individual teen's real problems in living.
If you are a real kid, I don't know what you haven't told us, and I haven't seen you, and I'm not a professional.
But I certainly would't commit MY child to an institution without trying all the less restrictive alternatives recommended by a GOOD licensed clinical psychologist, first.
Anonymous:
Oh, and more to the point, if I WAS going to commit my teen to an institution, I wouldn't choose one with the reputation for child abuse and neglect that TB has.
I'd choose one where I had made a site visit, verified my child's treatment would be the specific responsibility of a specific licensed professional, and personally verified that professional's credentials with the institutions awarding his/her degrees and the appropriate licensing board.
I'd also choose one that agreed that I had the right to visit or otherwise contact my child at any time, and that allowed my child to freely send and recieve mail to/from the outside world (UNLESS my child was suicidal or threatening and specific mail would be harmful to him/her).
I'd also choose one that agreed it was under the oversight of a specific state agency (like family and children's services) and was in good standing with that agency.
I'd also choose one that carefully screened prospective entrants to the program, rejecting not only those with problems that weren't a match for the services provided, but also rejecting patients whose problems were insufficient to require residential treatment.
Those are the hallmarks of a Responsible and Safe residential treatment program. When and if an institution is unavoidable for a loved one, one can at least make sure that it is a GOOD institution.
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