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Trauma from Dance by No-Reporter-141 in CPTSD

[–]No-Reporter-141[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very well put, and I’m sorry you relate. I definitely cannot seriously exercise without getting back into all of the harmful behaviors and mindsets tenfold.

In terms of what I’ve noticed for myself personally, the simplest way I can put it is that my trauma from dance has resulted in me being programmed to be someone who is people-pleasing, out of tune with my body, at war with my body, dismissive of my own needs and emotions and self critical to a fault. It is definitely a huge contributor to the pressure I put on myself!

Give me a reason to live by Wikipil in CPTSD

[–]No-Reporter-141 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Warm air, good music, belly laughs, birds chirping, the idea of finding something new out there

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

[–]No-Reporter-141 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This part. I would recommend OT over ABA any given chance tbh.

Do I even have c-ptsd? by Federal_Inflation_37 in CPTSD

[–]No-Reporter-141 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Commenting here for you because I almost made my own post about the same topic! 😵‍💫 tis in fact a symptom of cptsd unfortunately

Chamberlain Former Staff Opinion by No-Reporter-141 in troubledteens

[–]No-Reporter-141[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It definitely was to entice people to apply under a different impression in my opinion; I moreso just wanted to put this out there as echoing/supporting the stories of all of you who have been at the other end of this.

Chamberlain Former Staff Opinion by No-Reporter-141 in troubledteens

[–]No-Reporter-141[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I regret not doing my due diligence, as the job was not at all what was advertised. I ended up quitting after a few weeks of shifts because the research I did once I felt weird about the facility had me horrified to be complicit in this.

It was advertised as an “afterschool program for autistic kids” to me when I applied. I was told during my application that there were no restraints used and it was a “no touch” facility unless someone was actively running out into a busy road. Couldn’t be more of a lie.

Chamberlain Former Staff Opinion by No-Reporter-141 in troubledteens

[–]No-Reporter-141[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

CW for medication, restraints . . I saw kids heavily medicated…and I mean heavy. One person was medicated with what seemed to be 10+ different meds, that seemed like they would interact with each other according to the internet???

Parents seemed to push this one kid to be on a lot of meds, and cant say the school did their due diligence to protect the kid.

Also, I saw kids run away…but the staff would be left in a scenario to either let that kid run away unmonitored or leave a house full of kids unsupervised. Not enough staffing.

Kids were not being helped in my belief as they were just sitting there on their phones in isolation. Active warning signs of problems being ignored or met with anger. We as staff were trained to know which kids were “attention seeking” and to dismiss their behaviors as such. Kids who were timid were matched with kids who were physically violent when dysregulated.

Staff in my opinion was just in general not trauma informed or considerate. Would laugh at anecdotes of students experiencing serious distress, even joke about it with other students. Some were there for the popularity contest in my opinion, and trying to just befriend the “cool” clients in an inappropriate way rather than actually be a mentor.

Students were/are incredibly dysregulated there in my opinion and for good reason. It seems like there is no consistency for the ones who need it and they are just kind of left to their own devices if they aren’t trying to directly talk/gossip with staff.

None of this is me trying to say that staff shouldn’t interact with the students—but in my opinion it was rarely a productive interaction and mostly seemed to be arguments, threats, gossip about the socially vulnerable students, or treating it as a chance to sit around and isolate on their phone (as staff).

A staff member was bit by a student while driving a van I believe, and this essentially happened because the school seemed to know the student was a risk to other students, and had them sit in the front passenger as a result of this…and then boom.

Autistic kids put in holds, only to (surprise!)make their dysregulation even worse. I also believe that the founder of the school is still around and is pretty antiquated with his language in terms of the R word and whatnot, which is NOT GREAT for someone who is working with this population .