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shanlea:
Listen, you seem to give a hoot, but the fact is that CEDU propagates highly unethical theraputic practices.  One is simply that they lie to or manipulate parents by exaggerating the problems of many children--or even creating them where none exist. For example, I experimented with drugs prior to CEDU. Also prior to CEDU, I easily gave it up--wasn't my thing. Drugs were not the reason I went there.  Once my family head heard I had some drug experiences, he rewrote history to make me a drug addict and used that as a tool to instill fear in my parents.  He had copped out to his own drug addiction and maybe he  thinks anyone who tried it is an addict. Whatever, this fake issue meant we never dealt with any real ones.

I also did not appreciate being blown in raps for  things that never happened; I don't know if staff just got confused or whatever, but again, it prevented anyone from dealing with any real issues.  I hated that they decided a script for you and that was it. I also hated being accused of lying. I was not a liar before I went to cEDU and I was not one afterward.  YOu ask me a direct question, I'll give you a direct answer, consequences be damned.  I don't know if the fact that CEDU treated all kids as liars was a result of many being tainted by a few or what.  

Last, raps were often overemotional about trivial crap like one of the staff members wearing pink bows in her hair, but also encouraged bullying and verbal abuse over direct, straight talk.  Do you think it helps a rape victim, or even someone who is promiscuous if they are told they are tramps, unworthy, with legs spread out to the world? What about all the kids who lied or exaggerated their sex/drugs lives after being relentlessly badgered to tell the truth about stuff that never happened? What about the black girl who was called a nigger? Is it OK that teenaged girls sat on grown men's laps and a female staff member groped guys' asses?  Do we really need to hear about staff smearing fecal matter all over themselves and jerking off in milk cartons, or having sex w/animals? Ever hear of therapeutic boundaries?

How about all the arbitrary bans, cult lingo, rabid insularity? Even the kids who say CEDU is the best have told me they had a very difficult time relating to the outside world when they got out. Don't you think the propheets are just extended periods of intense mind fucking that changes your psyche permanently?

Also, did they really "treat" ANYTHING while you were there? Are kids with anxiety, ADHD, Oppositionalism, or bipolar best placed in an environment that promotes loud abusive confrontation "therapy." How about targeting low self esteem? Is low self esteem fixed by calling people names, telling them they suck, or there parents don't want/love them?

No.

The therapy begins after going through CEDU.

MorganG:
Lets get one thing straight.  I have tried for many years to forget about it but what do you do if you have Post Tratamtic Sydrome.  I was abused by mother both physically and verbally growing up and here I was placed into a place where I was getting yelled at three days a week for shit I never did.  I was accused of lying in that I said I never did drugs, smoked, and drank before I arrived at Cedu.  I came to Cedu because I needed a fresh start on how to intereact with peers not to be yelled at by untrained faculity.  I can remember being in with people that were trained in Drama not therapy.  You know there are laws in place that say these people can get in serious trouble in they cause harm as not being trained people.  Not once while I was there did I get any help on how to interact with people and not mention that education was sub pair.  I to have dyslexia and I asked and even my parents asked if there was help and we all were promissed that there was but every time I asked this never was.  I was also that the only reason why I couldn't learn is because I was told that I and was led to believe this

Faculity at Cedu several times threatened o take me to a hospital since I was not working up to what they thought I could do.  Loking back on it I wish I took them up this as being in a hospital is much better then it was at Cedu.  I know this because I was in a hospital several times in my adult life and it was here I was properly diganosed with Bi-polar disorder someting Cedu with its untrained faculity were never considered.

Lets talk about medical treatement.  What medical treatment?  If you have a headache you are not dealing with you feelings is what they will tell you.  True you can get headaches from this but I will throw to things at you 1) I was hours from having to be rushed to the ER with a serious infection because the sore throat that I was complaing about was never treated because none of the faculity believed me.  I finally said either you take me the doctor or I will not eat any more.  There is also another story of a student that had his apendix rupture and he was complaining about his symptons and the faculity wouldn't take him.  If wasn't for a smart thinking Tim Brace this could would have been dead.  I have also been reading post on the internet where kids have been injured on the ascent program because they were forced to do things that they couldn't
If you think about why you hate me, you might find that it's not me.
--Antigen
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blownawaytheidahoway:
These last postings show a lot of the problems that we have with CEDU. Even people who think that CEDU is great have a hard time relating to peers and the "outside" world in general for a time after they leave. WHether you were there one month or 36 months or worked there for 30 years (Carmen Earl was in my dream last night), you will experience this. What does that in itself mean?
It's that the lingo and view that was instilled into you was a concise idea. And to be at odds with that "ideal" would cause you emotional suffering even if you knew or thought that the concise ideas were flawed. And as a youth, your understanding of either how to look good and get through or to fight until you can't anymore, is skewed by the inability to understand the aspects that are there to/would be "assist in your positive growth".
ALL of that was null and void for me. I was being punished and was constantly having it reinforced that I could do no good. Now I sometimes think I can do no good. But that's relating different info than I started with which is the lasting effects not the short term "ohmigod, i was brainwashed for X amount of time somebody gimme a led zeppelin tape". I do remember when I started to come out of my shell shock, it took a while...I was SO dependent on the way they had made me view the world. And then I ran for years and broke contact with everything about the school until I came to an empasse. Thank God for fornits.

MorganG:
Amen I agree
...and in all indictments for libels the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.

(Jury nullification. It's not just a good idea, it's the law!)
Declaration of Rights, PA Constitution
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Just Trying:
I was wondering what schools you all went to and how long you were their.

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