Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Mission Mountain School
the truth about it...
Anonymous:
I agree that there is a place for residential treatment programs for severely drug addicted individuals. However, there is never a reason for any child, regardless of their addictions or other perceived shortcomings, to be treated in a demeaning or abusive manner. Such treatment is certainly not theraputic for anyone and should not be tolerated. All of these programs should be regulated and overseen by the authorities.
Anonymous:
I'm with you, anon. There is no room for abuse, neglect, humiliation - any of it.
Anonymous:
Uh, yeah...that's like saying to a battered wife, "Well, let's not discount the positive aspects of your marriage." Who the fuck cares about the positive aspects when the negatives are so overwhelmingly prevalent?
Anonymous:
Truer words were never spoken! Let's all try to put our differences aside and organize to put these places out of business! We have tons of ammunition, in the form of lots of people who would testify. We really need a place to come together and make a plan.
Antigen:
--- Quote --- 2005-03-30 07:57:00 , Anonymous wrote:
Running one of these places is a win win situation. Most teens outgrow their rebelliousness naturally, so if they are warehoused for a couple of years, will come out more mature than when they were sent away.
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True. But even worse...
--- Quote ---On 2005-03-30 11:45:00, kerryberry420 wrote:
my parenst freaked out and got an educational consultant who convinced them i was addcited to drugs and promiscuous. (i still had never done drugs, oh and i was gothic) so i was sent to a wilderness program who convinced my parents i was goinmg to die without help, that is how i ened up at mms. mms made me say i had done drugs (i hadn't) slept with a bunch of guys (i hadn't) and say i was an alcoholic (i wasn't). they also told me i was a socipath and would probably end up being a serial killer. yeah right. i don't even like confrontations. so, you alreayd know what happend at mms. when i left there i went back to normal high school and had no idea how to fit it. i had been in programs for all of teenage years so far ( i was 17 at this point) i had no idea how to function, it was horrible and scary. i thought that if i drank i was "relapsing" if i did anything sexual i was relapsing, i was terrified. after the homecoming dance i had a beer and had sex with my boyfriend and felt so guilty afterwards that i felt like my whole life was a failure. it was then that i started drinking more and smoking pot, and taking pills.
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Kerry, this is so similar to how I felt and how so many other people describe their experience in the program. Intellectually, I never believed all the things they made me confess to in Straight. And I never believed half the trash the other kids said, either. But, after two years, it did effect me in just about exactly the way you describe. I never went through a realy heavy drug phase. I was too busy working to support my daughter, who was conceived less than a year after I was out. It's almost funny. All the old pictures I have from when my husband and all his friends first started hanging out at my apartment, I'm passed out on the couch. You'd think I was the biggest lush, but that wasn't it. After getting up early, working all day, biking to the daycare then home, doing dinner and all, I'd have one beer and go right to sleep. I might have developed a serious drug problem in those day, but I just didn't have enough energy for it. LOL!
The really tragic thing is that the people who run these programs and the parents who buy into them seem so eager to believe any horrible thing they can pressure you into saying. Though I was never in a program before Straight, my mom was constantly trying to find that smoking gun to prove I had started to become a druggiekid so she could slam me in a program and quit worrying about it. When I couldn't take that pressure anymore, I ran away to my sister's in Ma; hitchhiking from Florida. That, of course, became "sleeping my way all accross the country" :roll:
It's like Munchausen by proxy. Really, really sick! Hence the term "troubled parent industry", as I think that's really what it's all about.
That it is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can provide evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts and in my opinion, is all that is essential to agnosticism.
--Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
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