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Mission Mountain School / Positive MMS emperience
« on: July 03, 2005, 05:39:00 PM »
Gee-- why on earth don't more people feel supportive of the people on this website? Kat, you do a pretty good job of staying calm and rational in your replies. Many of you "anonymous" people, I'm not sure why you don't say who you are. I probably don't know most of you, and don't want to. For the record, this is Tamara and I know Maridell well... it is extremely difficult for me right now to not just lose my temper and sink to levels many of you already have with insults and degradation. I love how there is SOOOOO much anger on this website that no one can believe for one moment simple facts: like Maridell IS a therapist (retired now, but a fabulous and rational one- not to mention she has lived a life equally as challenging as ALL of yours... you little fledglings-- myself included), and also that many of you have so much anger and defensiveness, I am not sure how you plan on making a difference anywhere unless you are able to calm down and pull your head out of your *** long enough to communicate effectively with each other, authorities over boarding-school regulation, etc.... Follow Kat's example- she obviously has enough sense to make clear points, focus on her goal and take the actions to accomplish them. Anyway, this place is definitely not a place to get healthy and get help, even if that was its intended purpose. There isn't an encouraging word anywhere on this site that isn't followed by a belligerent and nasty remark by someone, usually ANONYMOUS. I keep checking the site, but it's rasing my blood pressure and not because it makes me want to change something, it just makes me want to shoot some of you-- and I don't think that's a good sign... I have had the opportunity to talk with some alumni now that I lost touch with, and we are able to find support in each other for our bad experiences without becoming steaming rageful, which is what I see HERE. I hope you succeed in making sure kids get treated right in schools, healing from your own traumas and learn some manners while your at it. Judging from your responses, I imagine I am not the only one who feels pretty furious at many of you when I read all the angry "throwing of insults"- Instead of wanting to support your efforts` I find that I can't stand the way these mind games make me feel... Kat, I wish you could start a new topic or something where people are really sincere in being there for one another, because this shit is pitting me against people I don't even know. It's exhausting just READING the retarded elementary name calling and insults. Anyhow, if you ever get something like that going, contact me. Otherwise, I think I will just go back to interacting with people who contribute to my life and leave you all to dwell in this nastiness. I am sure those of you who I refer to will have a ball ripping this letter apart and rolling your eyes and discrediting everything I say... have at it. I think this place brings out the worst in us, underneath it all some of you might actually be really cool and kind, and so am I-- so I am leaving to find poeple who really WANT to be supportive.