My kid still hates me for sending them to treatment 🤬
“I’ve said sorry like a million times, and they won't forgive me!!”
From a former troubled teen’s perspective, here’s how to start the healing process after treatment.
In our troubled teen VILLAIN ERA 😈
It's not just that we're so done with therapy after treatment...we're ready to enter our villain era.
🚨ICYMI…we finally said thank you to our parents
And it only took us 12 years to finally do it! Colin and I ran our first-ever online workshop for parents of teens and young adults, and it had one of the highest attendance rates ever for a workshop hosted by the Other Parents Like Me community!
So…I found my old home contract from treatment 🏠
Taking bets on how long I followed the rules until my parents' plan went completely out the window.
I’m O.D.D., okay?! 🙃 Get over it.
As someone who was diagnosed with oppositional defiance disorder (ODD), freedom - or personal agency - has been the number one thing I’ve valued for as long as I can remember. We believe it’s extremely important to give young people entering adulthood or leaving treatment a path to personal agency right out of the gate. Here’s how.
Treatment made me forget how to talk to people.
Imagine you’re heading off to your freshman year of college. You have that excited-anxious feeling about living on your own, making new friends, wondering if people will like you, and taking college classes. Now imagine feeling that way, but you haven’t talked to your peers for the last two years.
Wait...what do you mean I have an educational consultant?? 🎓
…said every former troubled teen who was sent to a therapeutic program. While in these programs, there was exactly ONE thing that we needed from our educational consultants.
When the latest Netflix doc calls your residential treatment center a cult 😱
Last Tuesday, The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping was released on Netflix. We were straight-up shook after watching it.
introducing…Not your therapist
Our view on Trails Carolina and wilderness program closures as young people who spent their teen years in psych wards, wilderness, and residential treatment centers.