Considering what these places consider “treatment”? Torture. They’d torture you.

“they didn’t choose it” sounds a lot like “they can’t help it”. And “they can’t help it” still makes it sound like it’s a bad thing.

So essentially these parents have thrown their daughter away. When she gets out she is never going to speak to them. It would have been kinder had they just kicked her out. At least she could have gone to the family members who actually care for her.

Somewhat related to the topic, when people ask if being gay is a choice, I say that the correct answer is “no it’s not”, but I think an even better answer is “so what if it was”? I just never understood why some people care so much about others being intimate with members of the same sex. Seriously, how does it affect…

Heaven help any poor child sent to these bullshit prison-farms.

I’m so glad for Sarah that not all of her family are shitlords. My heart breaks for the kids at the facility that aren’t that lucky. All of these military-style/hard labor camps for “troubled” teens should be illegal, they're abuse straight up.

I’m so sorry — I’ve been there. My last job was a contract position, and I was very excited when the company had to offer me medical insurance because I worked 40+ hours a week. It came through just when I was having a lot of severe digestive issues that necessitated a lot of doctor/specialist visits, and I thought it…

This is the most frustrating aspect of medical insurance IMO. Even when you have it, it often isn’t nearly enough. So people pay exorbitant premiums, co pays, deductibles, etc., and STILL are ruined by medical costs. Infuriating. I am self employed and pay a high premium, have around an $8,000 deductible, and high co…

I’m going in next week for a follow-up ultrasound and imaging because breast density rendered my first mammogram ineffective. I’m extraordinarily lucky because I have excellent insurance — neither the original mammogram nor the follow-up required a co-pay (I’m also getting a CPAP machine with no co-pay, which is…

I’m 29 and recently found a lump in my right breast. I went to my OBGYN, who felt me up for a solid 20 minutes and then sent me to a clinic to get a breast ultrasound. It was there that we discovered for the first time that I have cysts, which I’d never had before (or maybe I did but never noticed?).

my dental insurance (already a scam just by nature) just told me that the removal of two SEVERELY WACK wisdom teeth, at the like decade-long urging of all my dentists, was a medically unnecessary procedure LOL

I remember in the pre-ACA days, reading an article on the consumerist about a woman who went to the hospital because she was bleeding out of her nipples. Like, lactation, but with blood. This, I think, is a fairly typical response to NIPPLE BLEEDING. it turned out to be nothing (or well, not nothing, but something…

Idk, they seem to be great when it comes to penis related issues.

Insurance companies are just horrible when it comes to anything breast related.

The other great one is finding benign but large tumors that the doctor recommends removing for comfort and because smaller cancerous tumors can hide behind large benign ones on mammograms, but the insurance company deems it a “cosmetic” surgery that they have no interest in paying for. Even though as a frequent flyer…

Insurance companies are just horrible when it comes to anything breast related.

My divorce is coming sometime between June 15th and July 1st. I filed two fucking years ago. All I want is a massage and some sashimi. And my god damn financial settlement. It should not take this long!

I assumed she was welding something just out of frame.

Did her eye doctor just dilate her pupils or something?