If anyone's interested in a first hand account of this type of thing there's good webcomic: https://elan.school/
I haven't checked in a bit but I think he's still releasing new chapters.
Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps
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#12The people working at these camps should be named and shamed.
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That's awful, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Thank goodness that horrible thing was put an end to.
Thanks. I understand why my parents did what they did. I was addicted to meth and probably would’ve wound up dead without a serious intervention. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. (Clean and sober now.)
Amazing work.
From an internet stranger that's been around others who have been down a similar path. I acknowledge how hard that must be and continues to be.
Keep up the good fight.
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#14Was sent to a self proclaimed tough love camp. It was neither tough nor loving.
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#15Institutionalizing someone without even telling them will completely sever any trust. Who thought this would be a good idea?
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#16It's bound to fail when you just take any kids and throw them all into an environment like this. And I doubt the kidnapping approach is ever a good idea unless there are mental health professionals involved at every step.
But I think some kids really do need to get away and change environments and do some things on their own at an earlier age. Maybe a small town kid really needs a year in the city, or vice versa.
Maybe there could be more programs to facilitate that without it looking so much like a punishment.
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#18There’s an excellent episode of the trueanon podcast about this: https://pca.st/episode/3a6af373-ded0-4a0f-b9ad-c4c0bec3e2ec
One of the hosts actually got sent to one.
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#19Institutionalizing someone without even telling them will completely sever any trust. Who thought this would be a good idea?
The kind of parent who thinks TV is a cheap babysitter.
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That's awful, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Thank goodness that horrible thing was put an end to.
Thanks. I understand why my parents did what they did. I was addicted to meth and probably would’ve wound up dead without a serious intervention. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. (Clean and sober now.)
Sounds like the kind of thing that sounds like it would "help" on the surface but maybe create more suffering down the line.. do you think there were any benefits to your life for having gone or was it a purely negative experience?