Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Mission Mountain School
the truth about it...
Anonymous:
AMEN!We all need to stop spinning our wheels and get organized if we are going to solve the problem. It is time to put our differences aside and start working together. We may never be able to shut down this industry entirely, but we can damn sure work toward getting some governmental oversight and enhanced public awareness. We need to force open the closed doors that have protected these places, and their owners and employees from public scrutiny for decades. The battle has to start someplace, so why not here and now?
kerryberry420:
that's a great idea, but how? what can we do?
katfish:
(Apologies in advance if this is slightly jumbled, mid-terms ended this evening and I have slept little...)
I second what Melissa says, different people, different experiences. I also stand by my belief, as I understand the definition of emotional abuse to be, that MMS was an emotionally abusive environment. I would also characterize it a psychologically abusive and the staff as extremely manipulative. Education was the worst, I would consider that abusive as well..
I'll try and get some parents- mine included to post up here. I don't want to speak too much on behalf of my mom, but from our converstations I unserstand her feelings to be, essentially, that she was desperate and a sucker. My mom, I have known to be easily manipulated in general when she is emotionally vulnerable or simply does not have it in her, for one reason or another to absorb and analyze information she recieves...My mom was not the best mom, she made many mistakes along the way. My inability to convey my feelings about MMS since calls were monitored and parents warned about students trying to manipulate their way out made it impossible for her to get any real sense of my experience. As stated earlier, intimidation was an issue for me and I was too scared after a certain point of getting labeled as being manipulated and having to suffer the consequences. I kept my mouth shut.
One final comment before i sign off, I would be very curious to find out how many kids truly found MMS beneficial...Studies should be done. I find too strange that there's one extreme or another in terms of loyalty to MMS...more hostility where loyalty is expressed than logic though, hmmm...I found that to be part of the problem at and after MMS- limited freedom in the ability to express crticisms and not simply go along with eveything. Thanks everyone, I think this site is great!!
Kat
katfish:
I would happily participate in working toward reforms and such. Things have to change- at least at MMS.
Commenting quickly, Mercer and Mike Finn were the two founders I found to be extremely abusive- though I believe Mike is no longer there. Gary Kent would occasionally expressed dismay at their tactics through physical expression, but never did I hear him address Mercer or Finn verbally.
So, what can be done? Things have to change... Is it true that music is prohibited. It was regulated while I was there, but at the time was my only source of comfort.
I also relate to what 'Antigen' said about joke/private reality check. Being so duplicitous is so straining and made me feel crazy. Lying and hearing those lies repeated back to me conforted me in the sense that it kept the sense that this was all a fictional experience (in a way) b/c it was as I was not developing. I was hiding and repressing my core. Out of everything, that was the worst aspect of MMS for me.
katfish:
Could this be correct?
http://www.privateschoolreview.com/stat ... stateid/MT
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