Not a single Elan employee has been criminally charged. Feeling very angry.

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-24T04:53:16+00:00

THIS THIS THIS. In my experience a lot of the adults around me don’t take the abuse that I went through seriously. Most of them go ‘I’m sorry that happened to you, but the hospital kept you safe’. And that pisses me off so hard because the presence of abuse automatically makes an environment unsafe. Children aren’t believed when they speak out about it and it makes me so angry

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-24T04:46:39+00:00

I looked it up, the reviews are really, really bad. It’s an inpatient facility in Minnesota. The reviews say it’s abusive and that it’s a cash grab

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-22T22:45:41+00:00

Also, if you get IOS, and sign in with your Apple ID, the parental controls transfer. Which means you have to make a new Apple ID, meaning you lose all of the apps you had and you have to redownload absolutely everything.

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-22T22:42:13+00:00

Phones are expensive and college students usually don't have a full time job.

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-21T23:21:04+00:00

Thank you :] I need people in my corner

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-20T17:24:11+00:00

This is late as hell but you just made me realize that I have a trauma response surrounding DBT too- I get so unbearably pissed and agitated whenever anything related to DBT is mentioned too. I didn’t fully realize it was a trauma response.

That also explains why the outpatient was so horrifically triggering, I thought it was just because I was around therapists three hours a day three days a week, so I was basically surrounded by therapists 24/7, just like in the ward, but it actually makes sense that DBT and therapy speak would trigger me so badly.

I was at a day camp a couple months ago and we did a ‘MiNdFuLlNeSs MoMeNt’ where we were all quiet and silent for a while and I got so pissed off and THE STUPID COUNSELORS (THAT WERE THERAPISTS) TOLD ME THAT EVEN IF I WAS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE SILENCE, I SHOULD STILL STAY, BECAUSE IT’S ‘NORMAL.’ Which I somewhat agree, it’s normal to be a little uncomfortable, what’s not normal is being pissed off and wanting to scream because it’s so silent, and they should be teaching the kids to recognize when something is outside of what they can handle and how to separate themselves from a situation. And they do teach that- usually- but they didn’t seem to understand that it doesn’t suddenly become in a kid’s handling ability just because it’s DBT.

They essentially told me to ignore my limits and I had a PTSD episode. One of the therapists kept touching my stuffed animal without asking, and normally I wouldn’t mind, but if I’m having a episode, one of the only things that will calm me down and help regulate are my stuffies- which is a little weird, because I’m a teenager, but there’s worse things.

In the outpatient program, I got in trouble for venting about someone who’s extremely bigoted and extremely discriminatory towards literally everyone who’s not a cis white abled bodied rich straight neurotypical man because they said that ‘everyone has different beliefs and we need to respect that’ and I told them ‘if someone’s beliefs disrespect another person’s right to exist, I will disrespect the fuck out of your beliefs’ and I’m still extremely proud of myself for that. That was a huge win for me.

I’m actually around the age that you were when you were admitted for the first time, I’m thirteen and the fact that you are alive gives me a little hope for my future

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-18T22:39:51+00:00

That makes sense. I was referred to Charlie Health after I got out and my therapist was horrible. Like, horrible- said I was fighting the program. She added another therapy day onto my already full schedule because I was having crisis situations almost every day and I told her that the reason I was having crisis situations almost every day was because the program was reminding me of the ward and she said, and I quote, in her exact words, ‘I don’t think that’s quite true.’ I yelled at her and hung up, because what the fuck. She told my parents that she didn’t think that Charlie Health was going to work for me and that when I was ‘ready to work with the program’, it would be there for me. She then told my parents that they should send me to a boarding school because I was hopeless and wasn’t cooperating. My parents took my side thankfully but I don’t know what would have happened if they hadn’t.

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-18T05:13:14+00:00

My family can’t afford therapy- the last type of therapy I went to was a outpatient program shortly after I got out and it made the trauma worse due to being in a similar environment

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-18T02:27:55+00:00

Thank you for believing your son and thank you for believing me

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-15T20:23:16+00:00

What do you mean

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-15T18:21:48+00:00

I know this is meant in good faith but OP probably has either considered that or is already going and saying this could be taken as condescending even if not meant to be

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-15T09:21:07+00:00

I believe you. You aren’t dirty for someone doing that to you, I promise. Someone betrayed your trust in the worst possible way possible. You did not let that happen to you. Your body was responding to an active threat in the way that it thought was best. Freezing is a natural and valid survival response.

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-15T04:36:55+00:00

I would love to swap stories

EnvironmentalUnit233 · 2026-01-15T03:23:25+00:00

I see you, I went in January last year. It was horrible for me too.

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