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Mission Mountain School / GIRLS HARMED BY MMS LOOKING FOR SUPPORT
« on: February 27, 2006, 04:49:00 PM »
hey guys... i would like some support with all this.  reading some of the things on this site, as well as posting my own messages and talking to my friends from mms have really brought up emotions that i have kept inside since i left.  i feel like there is no longer a purpose in my life.  i am no longer happy with things i used to love.  mms took so much out of me and i dont know if or how i can get it back.  someone please help...
-kim

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Mission Mountain School / MMS Employees
« on: February 27, 2006, 04:41:00 PM »
oh, and let's see... don (the maintenence guy) and his wife marsha (weekend cook) left in late 2004.  holly (the nurse) left shortly after them as well as jim and jenn.  she is currently working at a salon in bigfork. then marsha's replacement, abby, who was THE best staff ever at the school, left as well to pursue a career in mental heath.  she really cared about the girls and did everything she could to help us.  i really miss her. and her husband, rod, was the maintenence guy when i left.
-kim

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Mission Mountain School / MMS Employees
« on: February 27, 2006, 04:37:00 PM »
i was there when jim and jenn announced they were leaving.  they had been dating for like, a year, got married before leaving, and they moved to virginia to be closer to jenn's family.  
-kim

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Mission Mountain School / Calls with our parents
« on: February 27, 2006, 04:28:00 PM »
i attended mms from jan 2004 until june of 2005.  when i was there, i also was not allowed to have a call until i had finished writing my histories, and when i did, it was the conference call for my first history.  so the first time i talked to my parents in about 2 months was my drug and alcohol history call.  it was intense.  we were allowed 2 8-minute calls a week, but half the time we would run out of time, or my therapist would cancel my call because of "bad behavior".  at one point, i did not talk to my parents for 4 and a half months.
-kim

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Mission Mountain School / Question
« on: February 27, 2006, 04:14:00 PM »
okay, heres what happened with me... i left about 6 weeks before graduation, on my last home visit.  my parents were charged for the two months i would have been there for until my graduation, as well as for anything that had to do with graduation, like cap and gown rental and all that.

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Mission Mountain School / Curious
« on: February 27, 2006, 04:12:00 PM »
i left mms on my own accord last june.  i know some of the girls who are still there, as well as other people who left about the same time as i did, who are also currently in contact with students.  let me know if you have any questions or anything i could let you know about or anything.  [email protected]

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Mission Mountain School / News
« on: February 27, 2006, 04:00:00 PM »
well... i attended mms from january 2004 until i did not return from a home visit in june of 2005.  after my off-campus, i had a hard time adjusting to being back at mms.  i ended up using self-mutiliation as a way to cope with the fact that i had no support from anyone around me, with the exception of three girls.  because of this, i had calls to my parents cancelled for three weeks, i had no contact with them at all.  anything i wanted to say to my family, had to be approved a relayed to my family.  my first home visit, over christmas, was cancelled.  on my first home visit, i was involved with a male friend of mine.  when i returned to mms and was honest about what i had done, the school took away another home visit, my therapist met with me daily to see if i had realized that anything sexual is bad forever, and every group session was focused on what the other girls thought about what i had done.  i felt like all i could do was agree with what everyone was saying about me and the way i felt emotionally, while holding in all my true feelings.  i kissed another student at the school, and for weeks, the other students, again with the exception of my three friends, would not even approach me.  my history of sexual abuse was denied by staff and students alike.  i did not even start working on it until a couple months before i left.  in my first session of addressing this issue during group, eight girls held me to the ground while i tried to escape.  this was at the prompting of my therapist at the time.  i could not sleep for weeks afterwards, fearing that my past abusers would find me.  i could see nothing but their faces when i closed my eyes.  i think that this was just a part of the school's way of dominating me.  i have recently taken out my journals from my time at mms.  the things i wrote during my time there are highly disturbing and it makes me sick to my stomach just to read about it now.  well... if you guys want to know more, you can email me at [email protected]  i would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has had any similar experiences, or anyone who will not judge me for what i have to say.  
-kim

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