Well that is why I feel sorry for you and your clients.
Full circle. 

Dear god, you are tiresome.
Here is what I first wrote. Read it and understand it. It’s very simple. 

I’m very concerned about you being a psychologist with your seeming inability to understand what people are communicating

Reading comprehension is your friend.
What I said was “you can’t measure what never happened.” You have no idea whether or not you would have died if you had not gone to that school. No doctor is a psychic, no matter how bad your health was or how good that doctor is.

Any therapeutic environment where children can be sequestered from independent oversight or access to an advocate is a problem, and is exactly the type of environment that parents wanting conversion therapy would seek out. “But the treatment itself is good!” doesn’t obviate the need to have protections in place other…

How do you know they didn’t abuse anyone? Just because you weren’t doesn’t mean nobody was. 

You have no idea what my experience was, and you’re invalidating it out of hand. It’s way too personal and involved to share on a gossip blog.

What really makes good treatments more stigmatized and hard to access is the existence of those residential ‘treatment’ programs that are allowed to operate without oversight or protection of the rights of the children they monetize.

Sorry for the multiple replies, but this is really on my mind.
I’ve read your posts before and I like what you have to say. I don’t want to have acrimony where none should be.

I believe we both went through some rough times in our teens, and our parents dealt with it differently.
Our experiences are different and our…

That’s the main issue here, right? That there is a dangerous lack of regulation and accountability? A safely, ethically run facility is probably beneficial for many kids and people like Veit above did have their lives turned around for the better. But do parents really know that the facility they’re sending their kid…

I believe I would have killed myself if I was sent to a school like this. I will never know if that is true or not. Just like you will never know what your life would have been like if you had not gone to this school.

I understand that’s the language used in the program you were in. It’s still a euphemism. Does a ‘sent away’ teenager have a right to have someone - other than their parents or the people running the program - determine whether they should or should not be there? Do they have any right to object if the program is…

I am not trying to invalidate your experience, but the things you describe sound very much like (at least borderline) abuse.

It’s not shitting on you or people like you to admit that there’s a huge potential for abuse in treating children like property without rights, and to consider whether there are better options - like a formal commitment process - that would allow residential treatment programs to help very troubled children.

I appreciate the fact that this experience helped you. However, when people say something “saved their life” I’m always a bit dubious.
There’s no way of knowing what would have happened to you had you not gone to this school. You may have had some other profound experience that changed your life for the better. You…

Thank you. I read that paragraph three times, thinking maybe I had suddenly lost my ability to comprehend the written word. Then it dawned on me that it was just jibber jabber nonsense. I do think everything about the Smiths has always, even before all this, sounded exhausting. I think most of us know couples who are…

I was kinda with Ms. Neal until this purposefully meaningless word diarhea:

Martha Stewart is going to be 79 next month.  

I hate the phrase cancel culture so much and I’m hearing it like every 5 seconds these days. It’s not an actual thing. It’s the free market which conservatives are supposed to love. If coke changed their recipe and it tasted like shit and no one bought it nobody would say why did they cancel coke. Coke fucked up and…

Sarcasm noted, but it actually isn’t that crazy, is it? We already got TERFs over here aligning with alt-right a**hats to keep transwomen out of bathrooms (because CHILDREN). There’s no bedfellows that will surprise me anymore.