hello,
my name is Vanessa, i went to Victory in 94 -95 (i think) I always wondered if i was just over reacting to the trauma of going to this place. And for the first time today I decided to do a little research and found all this.
I left that place and really never looked back so in doing that forgot a great deal of what went on there. I would love to talk to some of the girls I went through there with somehow.
Victory did not work for me in regards to keeping me from drugs and the life style I was living that got me there. I left there and a year later getting kicked out of school again, my parents put me on a plane to send me back and I bolted on my layover flight in Dallas as a run away! Thats how badly I refused to go there again. I went on to become a heroin addict on and off for the past... well pretty much starting a couple years after leaving there. I am good now in fact very good. I sought after my own help and see myself as a great success story. I look back and can see that living through that place has contributed to who I am today and for the most part, most days, I wouldnt change that. So yea the place is fucked and bizarre and scarry and is something i hope not many have to experience. Point is there are great places to provide help to people who are ready for the help. This place isnt one of them.