Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Mission Mountain School
For Colleen Harrington
katfish:
Hey anony-
post above, what's same/different about the program from 2000 versus now or closer to now? and what years were you there?
kat
Anonymous:
There's been some posts about it. I was there 1998 to 2000. Staff is different, the approach is different ( a lot more structured ) Clymerchick posted about it under another heading on this forum. She stated it nicely. I mean, regarding the abuse I guess. I can't speak for how it was in the early 90s, but there was no abuse while I was there or the girls I knew while I was there... and since then. They may not like it, but they weren't abused.
Anonymous:
You said ...I was there 1998 to 2000. Staff is different, the approach is different ( a lot more structured )... I can't speak for how it was in the early 90s, but there was no abuse while I was there or the girls I knew while I was there... and since then. They may not like it, but they weren't abused. (QUOTE)
Wow, your last sentence is really something. How can you make a statement like this "...they may not like it, but they weren't abused." I would hope you would come back and apologize to the girls because you do not know everyone's stories and if you think that things we're read about her are not abusive, then you are sadly mistaken. You must have a weird way of looking at things in life.
Because I find it abusive when someone forces you to tell you innermost secrets, revealing things that you would never had dreamed you would have to reveal.
I find it abusive when a child is taken out of school for 8 months and is forced to do manual labor for that time, is not allowed to shower for the entire 8 months, does not get to eat with the others, and so on. Hmm... not abusive?
What about the girl who was forced to carry rocks in a backpack even when she rode a bike. These were no light rocks. SHe suffered from bruising up and down her spine.
Those are just a very few examples of what Ive read here that contstitues abuse in my opinion.
Anonymous:
There was definately not a time where there were no showers for 8 months. Maybe a few weeks, which is still gross but never 8 months. I don't know where you got that information from.
Anonymous:
I don't apologize. Therapy is revealing your secrets... getting them out, working through them, dealing with your shit. I had to write an entire life story of everything i'd never told anyone, and do you know how relieving that was?? secrets can be dangerous, they stew inside you... especially if you have guilt over any of it... it just stays in there and is so destructive!!! and i'm pretty sure if you didn't want to say something, you didnt' have to. no one had a gun to our heads! there were still things i didn't say after i'd left, that i really didn't want to say, so i didn't. and yeah, that showering thing is BS. even when we were on intervention, it seemed like once a week we'd all treck back to campus to shower and do laundry. and the girl with the rocks, did she say she was bruising? or was she afraid to? I know sometimes I didn't want to speak up. i had a bizarre injury that i was scared to talk about, but i finally told deb and she took me to the doctor and we took care of it. i was never told i was lying or making it up...
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