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FaceKhan:
Struggling Teens made me sick to my stomach. I had resisted the urge to take a close look into the msg boards of strugglingteens.org but I finally allowed my curiousity to take hold of my better judgment and desire to sleep well. It only took a few minutes to find boards full of parents giving kudos to one another for sending their kids to programs that I have read terrifying first hand accounts from. So self-righteous, full of this assurance that they are sending a self-destructive teen in and that shortly they will be sent back a devoted, respectful, college bound teen who will be everything they want and more.


I imagine the hand of fate will be circling that board, picking and choosing the parents whose children, will never be able to leave their confinement and stay on as staff, those that will never be able to live with their pain and fall into that downward spiral that was only a scare tactic before the program, and those that won't even make it through the program alive.


The parents are responsible, I do not care if they have been lied to, or mislead, or thought it was the only way. I don't care if they investigated it or were referred by friends or proffessionals. Their attitudes are frightening to me, I wonder if I look hard enough will I find a post made by Alex's mother, will I find a hundred posts supporting her decision. I don't know which is scarier, the first hand accounts of these places or the fairly tales that parents tell themselves to justify their complacency in their own child's psychological rape.  Slavish discipline makes a slavish temper... If severity carry'd to the
highest pitch does prevail, and works a cure upon the present unruly
distemper, it often brings in the room of it a worse and more dangerous
disease, by breaking the mind; and then, in the place of a disorderly young
fellow, you have a low spirited moap'd creature, who, however with his
unnatural sobriety he may please silly people, who commend tame unactive
children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble; yet at
last, will probably prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he
will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others... Beating them,
and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the
discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise,
good, and ingenuous men...
John Locke, 1692

Elle:
Parents making me sick to my stomach My mother and I watched a program (20/20?) a long time ago about a behavioral rehabilitation program on some tropical island. When investigated, boys were found locked in closets where they'd spent days, completely bound with duck tape over their mouths. Everyone was ill, everyone had scabes and every other bug that layed eggs in your skin there. No one was allowed an identitiy fo their own, they all wore raps and no shoes. I asked my mother "can you believe it?" and she said "Sometimes you have to go to great lengths to save a kids life." As we argued I realized for the first time that there was no form of abuse harsh enough to make her see that something wrong is happening in these centers. She is so programmed, that if I had been murdered in rehab she would believe it was for the right reasons.

          Elle.

Antigen:
Edge of Night I know, I know. I have a really hard time retaining some details about all of this stuff because I've trained myself so well over the years to tune it out in self defense.


The only historic precedent that I can think of to somehow put it all in perspective are things like Naziism, the witch hunts and frequent, though usually quiate stories of small town mass hysteria. This too will pass. And, somehow or other, we'll need to make peace afterwards. I don't know quite how that's done. But I hope to find time soon to read up on the aftermath of these situations and maybe get some insight.  -If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse

Elle:
Parents Does anyone have parents who have "seen the light" yet? because I'm wondering if it's just me, or if anyone has seen a parent figure out that they were programmed. Most parents I know have said "I don't agree with everything that went on" or "Sometimes they pushed things too far and I don't undrstand why" but none of them have outwardly accepted that the whole thing was fucked.


                       Elle.

Antigen:
Wes Fager Elle, Wes Fager, author of A Clockwork Straight, was a Program parent. Also the man who posts to this board from time to time as BostonBrave and a half dozen former SAFE parents. My own dad was perriferally involved in The Seed and Straight for nearly 10 years. But he figured it out a few years later.


My mother, otoh, recently said to one of my brothers 'I just don't understand it. Of 6 children, the two I've helped the most don't even talk to me...' That was the joke of the month among us kids, even the one brother who graduated The Seed twice and remains steeped in the 12-step culture after 30 years.
-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse

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