Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Mission Mountain School
WELCOME ALL MISSION MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ALUMNI!
audge:
my name is Audrey Hunt and i graduated from mission mountain school 7/13/02. i would not suggest that anyone be sent there. sorry if that sounds harsh, but i believe that all mms did for me was "get me away." i didn't know who i was or how to live as a 14 year old in san francisco. i needed help but was never offered therapy at home. i have anger about my parents just giving up on me and letting other people deal with the problem. i was put in a situation where i couldn't make friends because it was rewarded to "call each other out." the whole system is based on fear of consequence as opposed to knowledge of love. i went there thinking i had to be a certain person to survive and get by in the world and i left thinking i had to be a mission mountain cut-out. it was said many times when it was referred to that the shool was brainwashing the students that "our brains needed to be washed." i completely disagree. we needed the love that we weren't getting at home, love enough to know that we could love ourselves and each other.
john mercer did not involve himself in our daily life. we begged to shovel the horse manuer at his house becuase we would get his approval and maybe a cola. when we were to have phone calls we would sometimes have to wait hours outside his door because his schedule was more important than ours or our parents.
when my parents called to see how i was doing it would sometimes take weeks to get back to them. how could a school that expensive take advantage of parents who are already in such a vulnerable place.
there were weeks at a time when i didn't shower because we were on intervention. the reason we were in the woods in tents working sometimes 12-14 hours a day was ridiculous. girls had been trading bras.
when i left, i was left with a skewed vision of what i needed to do to take care of myself. i had no social skills left and felt like a horse who'd finally been broken and then was sent back into the wild to fend for itself. i was struggling and when i called the school to talk to my counselor there or to talk to anyone who said they would support me after i left, i was given voicemails and my phone calls were never returned.
i'm actually at work and would love to write more but don't have the time.
here is my contact information:
Audrey Hunt
415/794-3518
audgpodgii@aol.com
Anonymous:
Oh my god, I can't believe that is seriously a reason for an intervention. There were plenty of ridiculous reasons for intervention in my time at MMS but trading bras? That is just laughable. It's sad because looking back at the things at MMS that DID help me and leave me with good thoughts of the school is totally put off when I remember things like this.Things that are honestly just absolutely ridiculous and I can't even get my head around. I think some of the people who decide on these things have been stuck in the middle of Montana too long and forgot about what real life was actually like. TRADING BRAS?!hahaha
Clymerchick:
Audrey! Hit me up sometime... You can probably guess who I am from my name.
On another note... Did anyone else find that they became increasingly anal about their food because we had to measure everything? I never had any problems with food and them at MMS I had weird food stuff, but it would go away on home visits. Freakin weird!
audge:
what's your email so i can say hello (i'm guessing it's jess)
katfish:
Hey Audrey,
I hear ya, definitely culture shock leaving the school. Nasty stuff... when did you graduate? How are things for you now?
best, kat
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