Unfucking real.
Anything you ever need from me just ask.
While I believe that this staff should have never linked her personal life to her professional life - as it is a quality I would have preferred to have never known - she came to her shift everyday and was one of the kindest caring staff members I ran across at my stay there.
I understand the terror that L.C. describes. However my experience was much different. While I don't think that I needed PV - I know that I am a stronger young woman for it and that very few people will ever take advantage of me simply because I was placed in that volatile environment where I was forced into mental isolation and made to think about my problems.
I only posted what I did yesterday because I know that STU is hell. I lived it also. I truly feel for your daughter. If your not the patient that they want you to be... you do sit on your bed all day... there is no looking at your peers or you get turned around to face the wall or possibly something worse. If the staff suspect you of "interacting" you get hauled off to "time out" or the isolation room as L.C. puts it. I agree it is hell and I never said that it wasn't. Most of the abuse that I saw on STU was exactly what I said... mental isolation. The food doesn't help much either considering you never really know what you're getting. It's pure torture and I watched some of the more almost anorexic peers simply starve themselves with threats of being restrained and forcefed.
I was simply speaking about my experience in the cabins. I'm not sure and i've spoken to a couple former staff who left and just from being on shutdown and watching things all day because that's all I got to do... I know that things changed. No it's still not a great place to be and would I ever dream of sending one of my own children there - HELL NO. I just wanted to post my experience because i was there almost 10 years after L.C. and things were different. You can be leery of me that's fine, whatever. I just think you should know that no matter who you talk to or what it is about - while all accounts have the same running theme, things will always be different. Just because my experience was different doesn't mean I was a rat or a manipulator. I didn't attack any of my peers and if I could point out anyone who should be attacked for the way they talk to people (and since you know the names) it would be "Dr." MXX and his little friend for the way they demean people in groups and turn peers against each other. It was never so much the staff or my peers. It was when we had "special groups" with the clinicians that everyone would get worried.
I didn't attack any of my peers and if I could point out anyone who should be attacked for the way they talk to people (and since you know the names) it would be "Dr." MXX and his little friend for the way they demean people in groups and turn peers against each other. It was never so much the staff or my peers. It was when we had "special groups" with the clinicians that everyone would get worried.
I can appreciate that Guest1 came out to Fornits to tell her story. I realize this board can get confrontational (hmmm where have I heard that word so many times before) and sometimes that leads to the crowd slinging unnecessary accusations or insults.
In the case of PV (and other facilities) where so few people have come out to tell their stories I think it is important to listen first and reserve judgement for later. There is quite a bit of valuable information out there, but people are not going to share it if they know they will be "called out" on it or confronted straight away.
Thanks to Guest1for having the courage to post.
Glad you all could find some common ground.
When I read both accounts I had to lay down on my bed for awhile. I was overcome with such a strong sense of anger I felt physically ill. There is a time for love and a time for war. It is clear what time is at hand now.
In spite of all that, I don't harbor ill will toward the photographer - I still read her MySpace, it's interesting.
Quote from: ""ZenAgent""In spite of all that, I don't harbor ill will toward the photographer - I still read her MySpace, it's interesting.
How sad that you have nothing better to do.
i said "how sad you engage in adhominan attacks" to the looser who attacked you for reading that blog which under the circumstances- or any is clearly very interesting
Just typing the words PV into my search engine last summer brought up several counselor myspaces. The top three results included the one that has received so much attention on this board over time.
Quote from: ""stoodoodog""Just typing the words PV into my search engine last summer brought up several counselor myspaces. The top three results included the one that has received so much attention on this board over time.
I've been following your posts for awhile. The only counselor you've ever focused on is this one. What did the other counselors seem like? You said that they all can't be evil because they leave. Help me understand what you're up against: good and bad, please.
Quote from: ""stoodoodog""Just typing the words PV into my search engine last summer brought up several counselor myspaces. The top three results included the one that has received so much attention on this board over time.
I've been following your posts for awhile. The only counselor you've ever focused on is this one. What did the other counselors seem like? You said that they all can't be evil because they leave. Help me understand what you're up against: good and bad, please.
In relation to the discussion about staff background and the refusal of Peninsula Village to disclose the curriculum vitae of the line staff, I'll post this "red flag" from Maia Szalavitz's "10 Good Questions" , http://www.helpatanycost.com/questions.php (http://www.helpatanycost.com/questions.php) (Peninsula Village flunked 9 out of 10! Maybe all 10, I'm not too sure about #10)
Quote from: ""ZenAgent""In relation to the discussion about staff background and the refusal of Peninsula Village to disclose the curriculum vitae of the line staff, I'll post this "red flag" from Maia Szalavitz's "10 Good Questions" , http://www.helpatanycost.com/questions.php (http://www.helpatanycost.com/questions.php) (Peninsula Village flunked 9 out of 10! Maybe all 10, I'm not too sure about #10)
I am. Add 10, PV easily fails on that one.
Check out the other PV thread on this page. A fine example of the damage PV does to kids.