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You call bereavement social anxiety...You call neediness agitation...How sad that your emotions confuse you so.
You are not 12 and your mother has passed away. When will you truly deal with this!
GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK
The sick melodies of Redfield and McClain. Those comments are sadistic, especially with the flippant tone. I hope you wished them 'luck' with a capital "F".
A psychiatrist friend gave me this rule of thumb: What looks like wrong, unethical, and abusive treatment to you as a parent will look wrong, unethical, and abusive to any ethical mental health professional. What was the intent of those focuses, other than to worsen your trauma? And why were you in PV, a program called a "last ditch" effort before entering the penal system? PV needs to clarify the nature of their program: is it a private, lock-down juvie hall for rich teenage rapists, Columbine wannabes and pyromaniacs? A restrictive wilderness BM program for "treatment resistant" kids? Or a therapeutic boarding school for kids with anorexia, ADD, and depression? PV claims to be any of the above types of RTC based on what it takes to sell a parent and admits all of the types of kids mentioned above and mixes them in the same treatment milieu, utilizing "peer-on-peer" based treatment. In a peer conflict situation, who's going to annihilate the other: A violent rapist convicted as an adult who sodomized his victim with a baseball bat, or a teen suffering from deep depression following the loss of a parent?
That's not an exaggeration. The violent and the anorexic, the homicidal and the depressed, all shoulder- to-shoulder and receiving identical treatment. Don't think the counselors will intervene to stop peer on peer abuse - the staff is there to "break down" the patients. A predatory sociopath humiliating and abusing his weaker peers will be rewarded by staff for "confronting" the labile patients. The clinical staff always rely on the "break them down" treatment, regardless of what the patient's needs are. Fight2Survive's "focuses" show the treatment team's inability to deviate from the program's abusive methodology, and they display all the compassion and treatment skills of Nazi guards in dealing with a teen grieving the loss of a mother.
It should be no surprise PV's post-treatment relapse and re-hospitalization rate is high. It's become so embarrassingly bad PV is making parents and their recently discharged kids attend relapse prevention sessions. The efficacy of the sessions is not important to PV, avoiding legal liability for malpractice is the real motivation. When a PV alumnus relapses, PV calls it a "natural consequence", which means the parents did something wrong post-PV.
