Yesterday he signed a bill targeting abusive “troubled teen” facilities. Someone who will always be special to me was sent to one of these. They’re probably happy right now—that I’ll never know for sure doesn’t even matter.
Yesterday he signed a bill targeting abusive “troubled teen” facilities. Someone who will always be special to me was sent to one of these. They’re probably happy right now—that I’ll never know for sure doesn’t even matter.
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when i was 15 and suicidal, i was in a teen psyc ward unit at a christian hospital for a couple weeks. not exactly a torture facility, but the way some of the staff treated kids who didn’t fall 100% in line was ridiculous
we shared a common room TV with netflix, disney plus, etc, where anything worse than PG was banned, yet people were always breaking this rule (i guess they didn’t realize they could easily set age restricted profiles??)
one day, an obviously neurodivergent 13 yo girl was playing something PG-13, and refusing to turn it off when the staff lady confronted her. instead of deescalating, staff started raising her voice and arguing, and tried to forcibly grab the remote from her pocket. the girl was yelling and hiding under the table… so the staff’s next logical move was to call security, who forced her to swallow a sedative, then carried her body to lock her in the “quiet room.” they made us all go to bed an hour early as it was happening.
have a lot of stories from that place and it wasn’t all bad, but definitely were some times like that. i remember that lady being like, “you’re so quiet and behaved, i wish all these kids could be like that…” lady i had crippling anxiety disorder among other things, i wasn’t quiet because i was respected you