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Before any parent sends there child or young adult packing to a program please read the 1994 book by Joe Sharkey, "Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy," also read this, http://http://www.tldp.com/issue/162/162psych.htm. It looks like this type of torture is back and people need to know what they are getting into. I was lured into it and have never gotten over it. I wish I had. Unfortunately, I still hurt myself, and am still if not more so, the family scapegoat! I hate it that I hurt myself but the programs never fixed that, and I am becoming more of the scapegoat as the years progress. I am 47 and have been caring for my parents for 15 years while my family has traveled here there and everywhere. Meanwhile, I have continued to be abused by my family and those around me. Hospitals and programs don't cure they just make things worse! Remember that as you look in this!

I am I am in a dilemma. I am in the state where I hospitalized. I am now looking into moving to a different state. In some ways I hate to move for a variety of reasons. The person who first outed me to my family has bought a home here, and is once again saying I "am crazy" and attempting to control me. I have found a places that I can afford in another state. It is easier on my breathing difficulties there. The hard part is leaving good friends, and my metalsmithing opportunities.

I would love to tell my relative to get lost but she has more money, and is very controlling, right down to my meds. What do I do in this case? I have an adopted family here. Literally, the family that took me in the whole time my mother was physically sick when I was growing up!

I am having extreme uncontrollable anxiety about all of this. Then there is free floating anxiety. Lots of free floating  anxiety. I also need a 2nd driver for my move. I fall asleep at the wheel constantly.  Please talk to me..someone.

I don't know how but PDAP and Bob Meehan keep resurfacing! Here you have a new one to watch: http://http://www.thecornerstoneprogram.com/staff.htm Meehan and Szachta go hand in hand. I have no other words to tell you! The monkey's fist is the same that Meehan used. I don't know what to say. I loved PDAP at the time, but it has effected every relationship I have had since.

Last night i went to the bookstore and walked over to the "New Hardcover Bestsellers" table and found a book entitled Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent. I have read many books like this and immediately checked it out, and bought it. She wrote another book entitled, Self Made Man, which was fantastic. Her research is always incredible. I have not read the book I bought last night, but it looks very good. She checks into three different clinics over the period of a year, and she does it with no fore drawn conclusions. Each is very different in the socioeconomic classes it treats, and the type of treatments used. The book looks fascinating after what I have been through in my life. I will post more as I read the book. Prior to this I read Girl, Interrupted, The Looney Bin Trip, and of course One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Frankly, I did not care for Girl, Interrupted, and found the other two to be dead on accurate.

Originally,  I went to the bookstore to pick up the book, Cults in our Midst after a possible encounter that psy saved me from. I was looking at moving into Hive College in Denver, but then I read the first and second paragraph of this page:http://http://www.hivecollege.com/curriculum/ Needless to say, I immediately chatted with psy, and he told to stay away from it. I asked more question and he said it was time for me to go pick up a copy of Cults in our Midst. I checked my local bookstore and for once, they actually had it. Now here is where coincidence really played a part.

I did also finally bought the most recent copy of Cults in our Midst. My quest to find a new place to live continues, and I am staying away from Hive College in Denver. Any place that mandates learning, Gordon Training International, and acting in the manner they teach me, is too much akin to Timberlawn, PDAP, and all the other programs out there. As the saying goes, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I try to stay informed and up to date. I thank Psy for getting back to me, otherwise I might have been headed for a cult in Denver. I would have lasted 3 days maximum before being thrown out for telling someone to "F*#k Off"!

i have many regrets, like the people I let in and who then reject me. It  sucks. I forget I am not in Hospital Land, PDAP, or whereever and everyone wont' say "Love ya, man". Instead they say, "You are needy and you ruined my day!"

Well I just found an interesting link between Peninsula Village and Timberlawn:
http://psychiatry.mc.duke.edu/Faculty/JLooneyCV.html
Look at this doctor's trail of pain. Remember awhile back, I said there were distinct similarities, well the source might be here. I want others to weigh in on their thoughts. Both places have very sick methods of treating youth. Both places treat youth more like depression and other problems are crimes not illnesses. Both facilities utilize restraints and isolation quite heavily.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf50 ... hida-jones

If you want to see what pertains to you the fastest start on page 7. I read the whole article and it hit everything on target. After researching night and day for years, I have never found anything as comprehensive as this. It gave validation to the problems that still plague me today. My hospitalization was from 1985 - 1986 (9 months). I saw more there than people outside of Fornits can imagine. I have never been so validated as when I read this: http://www.fornits.com/eclecticartist/1495426.pdf