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Antigen:
Wow, you're drawing quite a crowd! Since you've been posting tonight, there have been 6 - 10 ppl looking at this forum every time I look.

There's no biochemical test to distinguish the so-called manic-depressive person from the elated or despondent football fan. Nor is there any resan to assume the manic-depressive's inner experience is driven by twisted molecules while the football fan's is driven, at worst, by twisted values
Dr. Peter Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry
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Anonymous:
Howbizarre,
Why do you think you "bombed your first semester of college?"
Did it have anything to do with the structure of classes at Whitmore? being more or less self-taught...lack of formal classrooms/teachers.

Whitmore is presented as a PRIVATE SCHOOL--most kids with this type education usually do extremely well upon entering college--have an "edge" over public school kids.

What do you mean by "playing catch up with your peers?"--emotionally, socially and WHY?

We parents see this with our kids at home now, and they won't talk to us about it...and we don't understand WHY. Maybe you have been home long enough, and seem more "together" and can help us.
Thanks.

Cayo Hueso:

--- Quote ---On 2005-03-21 19:33:00, HOWBIZARRE wrote:

 Being there, defiantely helped me see the brighter side of things in life."

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How did it do this?  I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I just really would like to know...from your perspective, exactly HOW this was accomplished.
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
--Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
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HOWBIZARRE:
When I went to the Whitmore it was more behavior modification than private school or so it seemed...I dunno what was presented to my parents but behavior modification seems likely because, honestly, my parents didn't seem too concerned with my schooling while I was there. The whole private school thing started after I left so I don't know too much about that.

When I think about why I bombed my first semester I think it was a combination of not being in a formal classroom for so long and a lack of motivation on my part. Getting back on the grind in the classroom was  tough. I managed to pick my grades up this semester though, I just look at my first semester as my trasitional period. :lol:

When I said I felt like I was playing catch up...
I feel senior year is a very important time, you're supposed to have your driver's liscene, a job, some money in the bank, and kind of start learning to get things done on your own. When I got home I didn't have any of those things and it was frustrating. I felt like I was 16 years old again, depending on my parents for everything. When I got home I had to move again so I basically had to start from stratch and it sucked.

As for Cayo, just being there, away from everything I was used to was definately an eye opener. I just realized all the things I had back home and whatnot. I realized how fast time flies and if you don't make an attempt to enjoy life it'll be gone before you know it. I didn't really get a lot out of group, I always thought it was kind of redundant and I just zoned out a lot during it. As cheesy as it sounds I guess reading some of the self help books they had helped me a lot. I guess the whole experience kind of shaped me.

Anonymous:
Did you "graduate" from Whitmore and go straight into college?  If you really weren't doing school there...how did you complete your senior year of academic work to get into college? How did you earn the required "credits" for your senior year?

If you more-or-less "zoned out in group" and didn't get much from that---did you have individual therapy with a therapist?

Who led you group therapy?

Seems like you could have told your parents, you could just come home and learn from self-help books and have saved them a lot of money.

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