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What about "Carlbrook School"?

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Anne Bonney:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---SC Student-   I was at Carlbrook and you don't get to Carlbrook by being a normal and talented kid. You get there because you are a fuck up. why are you blaming your edcon and grant for you being there?  Your parents put you there and I'm sure they put you there because you were doing really well in school and treating your familoy great. i bet you never smoked a joint or sold drugs either.
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Wait, now I've heard a lot of people supporting Carlbrook claim that it's not a therapeutic school.  Are you saying that it is?



--- Quote ---I agree Andy Coe is a nutcase, but you probably hate your advisor and Grant because they kicked your ass.  Tell us what you are doing now.  I bet you are still fuckin gup.  Carlbrook can only do so much.  the rest is up to you.  I hated group too when I was there and I was always on bans , but I finally realized I needed to figure some stuff out so I could avoid the shit tht go tme there int he first place.
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This is precisely what I'm talking about and what the anon was describing.  Convince the kid that he would be deadinsaneorinjail...how many times have we all seen that?  Break the kid to the point where they actually believe that they would have died without the place.  Make them absolutely dependent and fanatically devoted to the program and it's gurus.  How do you know that?  Most kids grow out of their idiotic behavior, yes even dangerous behavior.  Most of it is part of growing up and it scares the living shit out of parents and they become desperate and vulnerable to these conmen.  I hate to keep hawking this but it's just explains so much when you read the posts of those two students above and then read these (under General Information, particularly the first 3)...

http://www.ex-cult.org/

Grant kicking people's ass?  Care to explain that or are we to take that literally?

Anonymous:
I myself graduated from Carlbrook School in 2004.  I was sent there against my will because of my extreme drug and alcohol use, lack of respect for my parents and the law, and I stopped going to school.  At first I was resistant, but I learned to love it.  Not in the sort of way that its forced upon you (although in some aspects it is).  

It's entirely how you choose to look at the situation.  If you choose to look at it as a negative, controlling environment, you will find any and all reasons to back up your belief.  And vice versa.

The staff, while I was there, only had the students' best interests in mind.  Granted the teachers could have been better, you're in the middle of Virginia, what do you expect  (No offense).  All the teachers were friendly and willing to help, although with the amount of highly intelligent teens that were attending while I was there, this area could have been improved.

I met a lot of great people there, staff and students alike, and have kept in touch with them since graduation.  I went back out and used drugs and alcohol for a while, dealing with some unresolved issues.  Eventually I made the decision that I couldn't live that way anymore.  I have been sober coming up on 8 months now and I am extremely proud of this.

Carlbrook gave me the tools to live my life to the fullest.  I learned so much from the workshops we went through while I was there, as well as some of the group sessions we had.  While I talk to some of the staff there on occassion (Tim Brace, Jonathan Gurney, John Henson), they will never know just how much they have helped me.

I see things completely different than I did before I went to Carlbrook, and I wouldn't give that up for anything in the world.  I am extremely fortunate and grateful for this opportunity, to my parents for doing everything they did, and for life in general.  

If you are interested in talking with me about this, just leave a reply and I can send you an e-mail.  My dad showed me this link, so I thought I would check it out and leave some of my own experiences.  Take care.

-I Am Giving And Responsible-

psy:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---SC Student-   I was at Carlbrook and you don't get to Carlbrook by being a normal and talented kid. You get there because you are a fuck up.
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Mystical Manipulation

psy:

--- Quote from: ""NoLongerTroubled"" ---I have been sober coming up on 8 months now and I am extremely proud of this.
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You are powerless and trust god to keep you sober, right? (Let go and let god)

Well.  Let me ask you this:  what if your god hates you?

What if he thinks you deserve to die?

Anonymous:
I am a Carlbrook survivor.

The key of Carlbrook is to make the kids think that they are reliant on the program, then give them a valued and seemingly inspirational basis on which they should attempt to live their daily lives. However, the situations and explanations given for an individual's therapy are unrealistic in such an isolated and exaggerated community like Carlbrook, and I can find very little or no real life application of whatever was pressed on me during my time at the school.

My key to getting through life? Stop thinking about it and start doing it.

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