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Straight, Inc. - Montage of Kid Abuse

"Straight, Inc. (1976-1993) publicly claimed to rehabilitate teenage drug users by using tough love and Alcoholics Anonymous principles. Straight, Inc. provided NO professional counseling: Straight, Inc.'s "treatment model" relied exclusively on "positive peer pressure" from unprofessional staff (program graduates) and from the teenage clients. Straight, Inc. claimed to have an astronomically high success rate and was supported by both the Reagan and Bush administrations. However, Straight, Inc. did not publicly reveal what many survivors will tell you. The REAL Straight, Inc. was a facility that used coercive thought reform (aka mind control, brainwashing), public humiliation, sleep & food deprivation, extremely harsh confrontational tactics, kidnapping, isolation and emotional, mental, psychological, verbal and physical abuse to forcibly break us down then remold us in the Straight, Inc. image. Straight, Inc. also operated in secrecy, just like a cult (Straight, Inc. has been classified as a cult by cult experts). No outsiders were ever permitted to know what really went on. Straight's rules and our fear of harsh punishment prevented us from talking to outsiders or from reporting abuses."

From the page: A government that is evil has no room for good men and women except in its prisons.

Like TSA porno-scanners but for good. ;)

From the page: "To say this figure -- $200 million a day -- has made the rounds in the blogosphere would be a huge understatement. It has been repeated by nearly every conservative pundit in the land: Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Drudge. Always with a healthy dose of indignation."

Portia DeRossi opens up on Ellen regarding her anorexia. This was so disturbing hearing her recounting. Anorexia is not just about body dysmorphic disorders but also violations, feeling you have [or actually having] no voice....and it's isolating.

Porta De Rossi - in this Ellen segment - answers an audience members question regarding her recovery through and from anorexia.

yeah cause drunken fun must mean no depression? that is ridiculous. no correlation at all. in fact, depressed people often USE alcohol to function. and most people i know smile in the face of depression, too. it truly is amazing how our society is brainwashed into believing that non-thinking social niceties - such as smiling at appropriate times and laughing at 'appropriate' times means there is no hell going on on the inside.this is just another attempt at unsurance companies to appeal to "surface appearances" and the whole "outsides must match insides" mitote. as long as we have a world that believes pretty = better and a smile = happy well then....unsurance companies will be successful at denying benefits for the mentally or emotionally unwell.imagine if our world were educated to this truth; that smiling and/or laughing does not necessarily correlate to feeling well, serene, or happy. the unsurance companies couldn't possibly get away with it. we'd run from them!