Wow, I cannot believe they ganged up on Shelly and basically called her a liar and told her they didn't trust her. That dark haired therapist bitch was horrible. No wonder these girls did not take anything away from there.
i completely agree. I think that many members of staff said the wrong things to the patients.
There was something so strange about that place. it was like boarding school, with random little bits of freedom, yet the staff continues to act in a condescending manner. i have watched lots of documentaries/ tv shows on eating disorders and I feel that often times the people suffering from the disorder get treated like little kids and in this movie they got treated like little kids and sometimes acted like kids as well. these poor women have thrown their lives away. not many of them can leave and just pick up a job and start a life. they have to go back home and continue to suffer the consequences of the disorder, even if they managed to fight it at the clinic.
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I felt like I was watching One Few Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Any situation where people are given direct power and control over the lives of others - in prisons or psychiatric facilities, for example - it inevitably results in power trips, mind games, and abuse. It seems that human beings are just not advanced enough to be able to wield such power responsibly.
shareYes, they were bitches.
The whole place was like a middle school. The therapists and the patients were a bunch of ****-talking, nasty, backstabbing, small minded dumbbutts.
I wanted to slap the lot of them. This was a group of 30-year-old women acting as if they were 12.
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WORD. Therapists who work at rehab centers tend to fall into two categories:
1. Those dumb enough to truly believe there is the possibility of success in this attempt to "help" grrrls who need to be listened to rather than force-fed anything, including b.s. pro-recovery propaganda anyone with half a brain could tell these particular shrinks have never experimented with themselves
or
2. The ones using situations like this, with silenced occupants in there for their attempts to silence themselves who nonetheless are given no particular encouragement to share about anything that really matters, as fronts for their own particularly abusive actions including:
1 Molesting patients
2 Instilling false "Daddy-like" dependence
3 Further undermining womyn's self-confidence
4 Inaccurately portraying womyn they know nothing about to other, underling staff
5 Expecting/hoping for/attempting to create their own "refuge" in order to delve into their own negative attitudes towards food
6 Talking all over these womyn's feeble attempts to do the same
I'd like to see some of you folks have to deal w/ that kind of person for just an hour. Let alone day after day and see how you're lied to, manipulated time and time again. Then you lean ever trick in the book these sick patients attempt to play again and again.
It would get old real quick I assure you.
They tried to treat symptoms and never made a single solitary attempt to get to the core of why the girls were sick and felt the way they did. The amount of idiocy displayed by the staff was unfathomable.
shareThey tried to treat symptoms and never made a single solitary attempt to get to the core of why the girls were sick and felt the way they did.
You're a sexual Disneyland.share
Polly was angry at the prospect that she wouldn't able to have the same therapist if she went into Extended Care. Maybe she knew something you don't.
Those patients weren't little angels. They lied and manipulated staff because they just want to get out. You saw it in the documentary if you bothered to pay attention. They ALL lied to the people stuck taking care of them.