Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones
i want your stories
Anonymous:
"but my goal always remained to get the fuck out of there. my independent spirit, sense of self preservation, and my fundumental right to something better demanded it. to me staying at cedu was like committing suicide day after day."
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!
"i understand that fear is a real motivator, and if someone truly feared for their life, then i see why they would stay at cedu, but honestly, i never felt that vibe. did you feel that way? what made you stay?"
I didn't stay.I felt unbelievable amounts of fear and that's why this kitty ran the hell out of Dodge. I KNEW I'd be worked over into the CEDU version of the Stepford Wife and I RAN!!! And ran and ran. and i only looked back now.
--shanlea
Son Of Serbia:
Shanlea, you are a smart woman!
Son Of Serbia:
laura, so in a nutshell, it sounds like your telling me that you stayed at cedu because you were to afraid to risk going out on your own and finding something better. no one says you had to be a prostitute, i never sold my body to anyone.
believe me, in California, i had just as many propositions as you would've! what were the pro's of staying at cedu? three meals a day (and the food really wasn't that good) and a roof over your head? big fucking deal! is that really worth LOSING 2 and 1/2 years of your life? you said that
" I knew that coming out of cedu, I'd be okay. I didn't know the other way" don't you really mean that coming out of cedu, you knew you'd be comfortable? face it laura, you were too afraid to take a chance, to afraid to take your life back, that's why you stayed at cedu. You weren't living your life, i'm not even sure if being at cedu qualifies as existing. Be honest laura, fear did motivate you to stay. [ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-07-15 08:36 ]
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2004-07-14 18:08:00, mikehunt wrote:
"oops, i thought i was logged in.
bryan, i believe in universal balance (yin and yang... in cedu language: the pendulum), love (cedu tried to teach this, but they contradicted themselves... teach by example, duh) and taking control over your body/mind (accountability for our own actions and responses. for me, this is free will... you have to take on all of your societal programming.) oh yeh, and i believe that your "inner child" is the divinity within yourself. you can get in touch with that through meditation. if you believe that "god" is within you, you believe in an "inner child", even though that term may make you feel a bit troubled.
some of their morals, i agree with. i DO NOT agree with their standardized methods or the theories backing them.
i learned a lot through observation at cedu as well... [ This Message was edited by: mikehunt on 2004-07-14 18:58 ]"
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I'll give you a hint, nothing was standardized about their methods, no university is teaching them and in fact they told me not to tell anyone about what they were saying and doing. It was really just a bunch of stuff Wasserman had put together reading some books here and there plus the Synanon influence. Nothing standard about that.
Anonymous:
I don't think the theories are standardized; I think they have standardized applications of their so-called "therapy." The standard application is abusive confrontation.
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