Oh, I saw it. This is Jessica. I missed the first twenty minutes of it, but what I did see I found very odd. All they showed of what I saw was the staff meeting with this kid. They didn't really show the group aspect of it. When I was in Aarc, it was all about group, then once a week (maybe) you'de meet with your peer councellor and get a "treatment plan".
The one thing I noted when watching this was the lingo. It just kills me. Normal people just don't talk that way.. (in my opinion).
I found it sad that so many of the staff members are the same. They are kids that I was in treatment with or was staff for when I worked there. All I know is that when I was around AARC and working there, that's all that there was. I couldn't really have friends outside of aarc because I didn't know how to relate to people.
One thing I did notice, out of the staff I saw, is anyone qualified? That to me should always be a big clue to things not being quite on the up and up. When you can't hire and keep qualified individuals there must be a problem here.
I can't say that the film brought me back to when I was a client there because I just didn't feel it was very acurate to what actually goes on there. But like I said maybe the first twenty minutes showed group sessions and how peoples self esteem and who they are is totally ripped apart.
I just wish that they would have aired that documentary that they were doing a while ago where I was on it, actually speaking out about my feelings about aarc. Hmmm, I wonder why they didn't show that one, although even if they did, I'm sure they would have made me out to be "one of the unfortunate one's, a sick person, someone who has not gratitude"...
Anyway thats all for now.
J :em:
