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Anonymous:
Thank God this boy's parents listened to their hearts and some REAL GOOD DOCS instead of the advice of an ed con or other parents advocating they leave their "manipulative" son in a program that was clearly doing more harm than good.  

http://www.strugglingteens.com/cgi-bin/ ... 2;t=000641

It's a good feeling, isn't it? Knowing a child has been reclaimed and is homeward bound.

 ::hatter::

Anonymous:
Good God, those people are fucking nuts!

None of these programs can "cure" depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide.

Because there is no cure.

Modern psychiatry has no cure for these problems.

The only real workable treatment is supportive talk therapy to weed out the patient's bad coping mechanisms, and the right drugs.

The last thing in the world you want to do to a depressed kid is stick him in a day in day out punitive environment.

As for the destructive kid, it's at least fair to tell the kid he moves out and works to support himself and become an emancipated minor or he goes in a program.  And then if he chooses the program and changes his mind, you take him right out, have him find somewhere else to live, and you let him go until he straightens himself out or doesn't.

Anonymous:
Damn parents dispensing advice, it's a wonder any of these kids ever get out of these institutions.  Talk about control freaks!  There was only one parent that seemed to have their head on straight about placing their kid in the least restrictive environement.  The others were all pretty much telling the parent not to let her son MANIPULATE his way outta a bad program. Be strong, patience, faith and no waivers.  What a bunch of crap.  

Anyway, that whole bulletin board is infested with program parents and it is a magnet for recruiters disguised as parents-who-have-been-there.  

But it is heartwarming that a kid is going home. These aren't bad kids.  They are depressed and in need of help.  Why do their parents send them so far away in the first place?  Don't they know the damage they are doing????  

Damn ed cons and parents-helping-other-parents.  What a scam!  

:cry2:

Antigen:
I feel for this kid in a big way! There's a little clue in there as to what the kid's original crime was. He didn't want to be involved in his parents' church youth group. I didn't want to be involved with those folks either when I was a kid. Not that I hated them, I didn't, some of them were very nice people. But I just really didn't have any interest whatever in spending my Saturdays discussing biblical philosophy with my deacon/brother-in-law and a bunch of other equally bored kids, on top of Christian school with Temple on Thursday mornings, Sunday school and Church on Sundays. I figured I had just about enough religion in my diet.

My pastor understood completely and just reminded me that the door was always open. He was a real saint. But Mom flipped out!

Maybe the kid was punching holes in walls and breaking things because his parents are assholes and he'd rather take it out on inanimate objects than to hurt them. I hope the kid has some reliable friends outside his control freak family! Thank God he's nearly 18 and will soon be able to just walk away if he needs to.

It really puzzles me to see Marijuana connected with Narcotics - Dope and all that crap?it's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an Assistant - a friend.
Louis Armstrong
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Anonymous:
I don't think there's an excuse for property destruction, or physical violence against people.

Nobody gets to do that.

Still, if you give the kid the opportunity to go live with anyone who'll take him, or get a job and move out, and he *picks* a program over all those other options (or nobody will have him because he really is a little pain in the ass), then that's his choice.  

Like I said before, provided if the kid changes his mind after seeing the program and wants one of those other options, you let him have them.

I don't think anybody should have to live with someone who deliberately destroys their stuff.

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