Drs. Investigate: Torture Camps for Troubled Teens?

How far would you go to “fix” a troubled teen? The Doctors investigate camps, programs, and treatment centers that are designed to help troubled teens.
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[@evox5238]

:O I just hope they shutdown these horrific programs. The teens are literally treated worse that prisoners.

[@mackensierowland5247]

I’m sure they would of

[@uuhpoppy8412]

@@mackensierowland5247 they definitely wont they have been opened for many years. There’s no sign of them being shut down. Tho the government is shit and only care about money they don’t care to shut down these hell holes.

[@Nic98SE]

This is literally a concentration camp in America.

[@HeyhitmeBAM]

Unfortunately these abuse camps and centers are alive and well. As I type this children are still being abused. ($$$$$$$$$)

[@JoyDamiani]

This is real. I went to one of these programs and it was child abuse on so many levels.

[@hiyathere599]

Emily Yates what does a parent do when a child is out of control like mine is. We feed her, cloth her, goes to a private school can go out and be with friends can have friends over. We don’t drink, we tell her everyday we love her, she’s in sports but she’s on social media hooking up with guys she doesn’t know. What do you do in this case?

[@JoyDamiani]

Get her a therapist, condoms, birth control, and daily reminders that there's nothing wrong with responsible sex. Sending her away to be abused is only going to make her distrust you forever.

[@rainbowspace994]

@@hiyathere599 Ok so you are trying to justify Torture ?

[@justurtypicalteenager4989]

i am afraid. my mother is trying to send me there. She has done so much research and assured me it is safe. I am still anxious because everyone says it causes PTSD.

[@jessicawest4515]

@@JoyDamiani Woah woah woah, you don't know how old this person's daughter even is! And who she's hooking up with online! They could be pedophiles. Besides, on average people reach emotional maturity at age 25. I hope you are staying safe and I'm sad you went to a horrible, evil camp. But please, don't give advice like this to random parents online

[@user-nl1hp8dq9f]

I was 13 when I went to one of those "wilderness camps" I was in a group of 9-14 year olds at Trails Carolina. I experienced some shit there that haunts me to this day at 19 years old. I am currently a student at Baylor University and have succeeded in spite of my trauma. There are some thing s those wilderness camps dont want people to know as they would get shut down, like many already have. At Trails, I was strip searched at thirteen told nothing about what was happening to me, and slept in a trash bag under a tarp in the woods of the rocky mountains. We got a cup of beans a day, pooed and peed in one big hole, walked for miles up mountains a day with backpacks the same weight as the nine/ten year olds. One girl would pass out every day due to hyperventilation due to panic attacks, AND EXHAUSTION. My face was covered in sores and bug bites and the counselors would not send pic updates of me to my parents due to this. On my fifteenth birthday I spent there two girls ran off into the woods, we realized we all had pin worms due to improper sanitization and one girl tried to cut her wrists with rocks. THESE ARE little girls bounced from program to program because the get trauma after trauma and so they have behavioral issues naturally, and their parents have some money and dont want to deal with them. I have nightmares every other night even at 19 due to what I saw there at 14/15. If you are a parent FUCKING think before you do shit like that. Yes, I misbehaved and I snuck alchohol once when i was 15, but did any of us deserve what we saw there? no.

[@simpleinverso8628]

That sounds horrible... These places need to be shut down

[@NOs-1991]

These evil places are Hell on earth! Shut & burn these evil programs down to the ground!

[@jumana_2229]

im so sorry to hear that , I see you survivor

[@yukoncornileus4]

So sorry you went through that.

[@HazardousChaos1]

And now a 12 yr old has died there...

[@carolmartin4068]

I hate it when parents create the problem by not using good parenting to begin with, then after they’ve destroyed the child then they hand them over to someone else to try to fix what they ruined and only make the matter worse. Not all people need to be parents

[@giftedwithin7]

So true.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Agree!!

[@illicitveniceb]

I got sent to a therapeutic boarding school in 2015. It was the worst experience of my life. I sometimes wake up in the middle tonight because I would have nightmares that I was sent back there or I was still there. It was such a painful and horrifying experience. They lie to parents and tell them we’re fine and make the place look fun. They told me to lie to people when asked where I was and the kept our phones in the office. We weren’t allowed to use computers and they only let us watch the same movies they already had. They wanted us cut off from the rest of the world. Please never send your kids to a therapeutic boarding school or a wilderness program. I genuinely hope that place gets shut down.

[@sanglee5100]

Why don’t you try to get pay back against those sick bastards? Imagine how pleasing it would be to actively aid in RUINING the lives of the staff and owners who run these sadistic camps? Call DCFS, Lawyers & BREAK THEM KIDS OUT!!!

[@feeeaaaaarrrr]

im so so sorry. i hope you’re happy and doing better

[@sam-md2so]

Christ loves you beyond comprehension, turn to him❤

[@illicitveniceb]

@@sam-md2so go away

[@mistycox2944]

My friends is Jodi on this episode. She is a survivor along with so many that have been severely abused at these places. Thankfully we were able to see the signs after doing some online research after visiting the one that our oldest was admitted to about five years ago. We were able to get her out within 24 hours of being admitted. It wasn't easy though, getting the word out on these places is so important!

[@Lisa.G.]

M Krauss wow i just responded to your comment above where you said your kid was at *a place* and after you dropped her off you did some internet research & had her out within 24 hours, which was difficult. Now it's your. "Friend" and you had another one of your kids committed to one of these torture camps 5yrs ago?? Friends can't go and get a minor released, so this was your second child you sent away for "behavior"? It seems to be your behavior that is the problem!!

[@sanglee5100]

You fucking moron how could you as a parent allow yourself to be deceived & manipulated into doing such a thing? YOU ARE THE ONE IN CHARGE OF YOUR CHILD’S SAFETY. If you don’t have the most basic common sense to see the red flags that speaks about your failures as a parent rather than your child’s behavior

[@thequintessential5503]

This is why some oarents dont need to have kids at all. Sending them to these kinds of camps where they are being a abused or neglected is not going to cirrect them when they return home. Thise camps are modern day Concernation Camps.

[@blancamoreno5431]

Dude work on your spelling

[@mattjack3983]

I was taken to one of these places when I was 14 (im 39 now) I was there for almost 9 months. Everything they are saying about these place is 100% TRUTH. These places are a nightmare. To be honest, calling it a "nightmare" doesn't even do it justice. Words just can't adequately describe how horrible these places are. It blows my mind that these places are even still around. Its unbelievable that these places are allowed to exist as they are, with practically ZERO oversight to guarantee the humane treatment and care of the kids who are there. What happens in these places is TORTURE, in every sense of the word.

[@sonorabella3452]

This is why I like the videos because it exposes some "camps"

[@usaresident8181]

There''s a reason why that bottle was vinegar and not bleach. It's because it was not her time to die. I have a child who has given me a hard time for 7 years (now an adult). After exhausting every resource in my community to help him and the family through it all and nothing work I had thought about sending him to a job corp center. But, before I make any decisions I do my research. I read reviews by both past participants and staff and found that it would have been an absolute mistake. Another thing that kept me from sending him was remembering sitting across the table from him at a juvenile center and hearing him say he wished I would just give up on him. I told them that moment that I will NEVER give up on him. I haven't yet and I'm still not going to. The only difference between then and now is that he is an adult now so if he gets himself into trouble, he will not have me by his side because the court will no longer require at least one parent to be present. They would give him no choice but to work through it on his own and change his life, but he has to want to.

[@twinqle8535]

USA Resident You are amazing

[@daniellagaly7280]

And I thought there were no good people left in the world.

[@courtneygomersall7961]

So upsetting :(( (wtf would you drown kittens as well like wtf) 😭😩

[@usaresident8181]

The only reason is to have control by tormenting mentally and emotionally.

[@sydneewalker7056]

Man, my kids bad but not this bad. They don't deserve this. No child deserves this.

[@channelmar15]

I disagree. Look up Gideon Yapp.

[@Maniclout]

@@channelmar15 Troubled teen camps like these are not at all the solution, they only make things worse.

[@channelmar15]

@@Maniclout It's not just about helping them, it's about punishing and controlling them because they're a menace to society. And yes, I would physically strike some of the horribly behaved ones.

[@miloevans1375]

@@channelmar15 you’re a terrible person

[@benlayug16]

@@channelmar15 Weird.

[@asyoumovethroughtheworld]

These camps give people PTSD forever

[@simpleinverso8628]

"We're going to fix your kid's behaviour with hard discipline and work" Translation: "we're the kind of persons who try to fix a clock by smashing it against the ground"

[@randomemail936]

You would have your children taken from you if you treated then like this but a treatment center is getting away with it. Ugh!

[@Bubble586]

Some parents are lazy they dont have the time to teach their kids manners so they send then to a program So messed up

[@Gothic_Princess_17]

Wow what the fuck this is so wrong. What about that jail thing for teens. Where they just scare them

[@iDontShareMyData]

I'm surprised and saddened that the very FIRST offshoot of Synanon, called CEDU (Charles E. Dederich University) is not mentioned. Founded by Synanon alum Mel Wasserman, it is considered the template for the Therapeutic Boarding School industry, and used Synanon's cult doctrines as their philosophical base. Many of the practitioners of this "industry" today are former staff members of CEDU & it's sister program RMA (Rocky Mountain Academy). I am a survivor of CEDU/RMA, and most of these staff-members were untrained, unaccredited & unqualified drifters, marginal teachers &/or former students who (having drunk the cool-aid) were unable to function outside of this abusive and isolated environment. And to any/all commenters who spout off "well, if the kids weren't 'bad' to begin with, they wound't have deserved to be sent there"... I assure you, NO ONE "deserved" to be put into a cult like that. I needed a wake-up call, sure, but even a military academy (with possible hazing & bullying) would have been better than one of these "behavior modification programs". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEDU

[@rockstarslasher5140]

I'm glad Cyndi, Jodi, and Liz are speaking out about this issue! I remember I read the book "Help at Any Cost" it opened my eyes up to this issue!

[@ashleythomas5003]

Your not fixing teens you are scarring them or life

[@alexxchaos]

As a “troubled teen” I’m glad my mom just loved me and let me get over my teen phase, grow up and mature and get past it.

[@DDPTV-gm4ct]

I was in a camp in FL back when i was 14 and ended up getting transferred when they literally worked another kid- even younger than me- to death. It was a bad place, and only made me resent and form of authority. It took me 1 year to finally get out of a 3 month program...

[@MartyPenate]

I am so glad you are getting heard with this media! So much more can know! Next the movie!

[@albihysenaj5997]

That’s why kids in the 1800s and 1900s were more rebellious and worse than today because how they were raised and treated by adults

[@Nic98SE]

The troubled teen industry needs to be abolished.

[@jacoblee4353]

I cried watching this. This is absouleutly horrific

[@Baseball4life518]

Shitttt this is what I went through in bootcamp

[@sauceyjim2135]

i went to one, ill never be the same

[@_jaclyn_dalessandro02]

Oh my goodness I'm crying so much this is just😭 I can't believe that these places exist

[@youboring4219]

holes anyone?

[@Astriellah]

……..

[@slipstreamxr3763]

If I remember history correctly these kinds of "camps" were very popular in Germany in the 30s and 40s.

[@paigeemily7780]

Look up camp consequence its like prison

[@datboi5913]

This is extremely real wilderness therapy is just throwing a kid out in the wilderness with “great staff” and they kidnap you in the night to transport you to the “camp” happens a LOT

[@Gurl-5150]

Ummm...the producer of this show is the son of "Dr." Phil and good ol' Phil sends kids to these places.

[@kathrynerose7354]

I just realized that's Cyndy Etler, the author of Dead Inside. Her story is incredible. Heartbreaking and compelling. She is an amazing woman.

[@samcotten5160]

These types of "programs" are still going on. Ex: teen challenge prayer mountain boys academy, boneffey gateway academy. Vero Beach .

[@alexxchaos]

Also the “get right room” sounds eerily like something I remember called “the chokey” from a famous movie

[@derpedfox]

More people should know this this is reality and it still exists now, torturing children.

[@roseeast5471]

My mom almost sent me to a place like this but being left out in the wilderness with absolutely nothing but the clothes on ur back … my brother was sent though

[@Astriellah]

….

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Families need counseling that encompasses every member of the immediate family. It's called talk therapy. Not abuse. You don't just hand your kid off to someone else to fix.

[@alos09]

Sadly these parents are sending their kids to a worst thing than a gulag. Sending kids or teens through this torture is the equivalent of a gulag rules being used in kids. Which is what I find the biggest problem about and it needs to be addressed.

[@genevievehaynes1315]

This reminds me of the Camp in Germany during World War 2 but you don’t kill the kids.

[@icyivy2424]

damn... I feel so sorry for this ppl... 😢😢😢😢

[@Engired]

Still going?!? Wow!

[@gtgodbear6320]

Our boot camp in Fairfield County Ohio got shut down for cruelty to children. Grown men beating up teens and breaking bones. One kid had a broken arm for 3 days before they finally took him to the hostpital. One kid broke half his teeth because they forced him to bite down on a rock as hard as he could. They didn't think he was biting hard enough so they helped him, breaking his teeth. I think those were the two straws that busted the entire thing wide open. They all went to prison for cruelty to children. 1990's

[@nilufaryasmin8920]

America is a weird place.

[@susanburrowes7665]

The legitimate programs that actually support teen recovery are less sensational, and get less press. These programs are not for casual drug use, or misbehaviors typical of teens. They are supportive of teens who are in danger of hurting themselves or others, and should be a last resort for families. The key is, how do you judge a program, how do you work with your teen and what do you judge as a successful outcome?

[@sicarii545]

i went to wilderness and after an rtc. it wasn't as bad but it was still horrible. i was woken up i the middle of the night and taken out of my home by 2 hired men to take me away. and what made it worse was that my parents hired them. i was flown to utah where i got scanned people took blood, and other tests and they strip searched me. taking everything that i was waring, even my hair tie. i was sent out after a long drive to the middle of nowhere. i was then refused a phone call with my parents. i begged them to ask my parents to let me talk to them, and they wouldn't even tell them. my parents had signed me over to them as "guardians" i didnt get a phone call for 5 weeks we hiked a lot, did a lot of shit like that. tbh the shitty living conditions weren't the bad part. we didnt get any eating utensils so we would have to carve3 our own or eat with hands. you had to be within sight of a staff at all times, and you could never talk to any other kid without staff listening. if u were caught having a private conversation you could be punished from being kicked out of the group (forced to spend hours by yourself with a staff watching you at all times, you pace and scream and cry and its horrible) or have phone calls taken away. at one point i got food poisoning and i was vomiting and in terrible pain for 6-10 hours (we didnt have watches and they wouldn't tell us the time so idk how long for sure) when i got to the ER i was barely awake. i pretty much passed out and was given with an iv for the next few days. constantly going to the bathroom to vomit. 2 staff were with me in the hospital room with me at all times. i got so dehydrated from losing so much fluids that my kidneys started to shut down. after 1 day there could have been permanent damage and in 2-3 days more and i would have died, i have looked hard online for communities where i can talk to other people who have been through this but i can't find it so hopefully there will be some people here

[@JVDAWG1]

Google "Troubled Teens reddit", or "Suburbia's Dirty Little Secret", or the "Breaking Code Silence" on Facebook

[@yoyo-oy7xb]

whoah

[@alexlee6487]

I want to say that if had a therapeutic program I would not have the techniques that those programs would use.

[@rubyfox6997]

I searched up Girl Scout camps for 15 year olds because I'm going to one this summer and I get this wtf

[@edieeakin4887]

KITTENS HELL NO THIS IS HORRIBLE!

[@kimmyfreak200]

does anyone know that one docu that showed a behavior help place in the 1970s it was for troubled teens/runaways/addicts and the staff was psychotic and abusive...theres even a clip where the counselor is just yelling at them...it was some sort of reverse psychology thing and one patient or resident was even cuffed outside for days..it was shut down cuz the people that ran it were sociopaths. wish i could remember the name.. i saw this on youtube..its called attack therapy

[@kmmah059]

You mean elan school right?

[@marisaa.tamayo]

My mom would never put me in that

[@artbyinaya]

this is so bad and the worst part is that parents have no idea all they knew was that their child was being helped and wait did she say kittens!! That's horrible why are animals being killed just to punish kids this is not okay!

[@carlyrose7276]

It's a school that takes all your tuition and leaves you in the dust how fitting lmfao

[@patriciadileonardo4620]

Try children already born with disabilities that had great doctors, University Team Studied, placed in excellent school classroom setting, was manageable but ending up in a wilderness camp being sexually abused, thrown against trees, sleeping in a tent in the snow in the deep woods, etc. The rest one could not imagine. "It would be better that a millstone be hung around one's neck than to harm just one of God's little ones." The Bible

[@robsonstroud1871]

Vito Spatafore Jr brought me here

[@brandyyolidio4213]

My parents whooped us with a belt when we messed up. We learned to stop messing up. The end.

[@mayseeyang5953]

And then child protections sends the parents to jail... Parents just can't do anything right!!

[@mitskilover4life]

you were abused

[@thomaskonradyjr1142]

Tranquility Bay 97-00

[@botted2810]

It could also be called cinnabon not cinanon

[@michaelrudolph3763]

These institutions need to be shutdown. I feel there too hard on these children and we could find better alternatives to help them rather that make then scar them the rest of their life.

[@kathryncarter6143]

The link of communication between parent & child should me Dr be broken !!!!!!!!

[@sophiamarie7917]

WWASP Programs - look it up!

[@danielgonzalez201120]

Why did she check in the freezer

[@luna6691]

probably for food

[@zirconiums]

SOQM vibes lol

[@TheAfghangal]

READ THE REVIEWS BEFORE YOU OUT YOUR KID IN SOMETHING

[@klattalexis]

Like Boot Camp?

[@bunnyluver_YT]

No torture camp.

[@setarboznai7856]

My mom is sending me to a boarding school i need help

[@kattennala8516]

Which boarding school? If its a regular boarding school that isnt for therapy or troubled teens i think you should be good- boarding schools are actuauly pretty fun if its not for discipline or therapy

[@Stefan-ji2ek]

Thankfully nearly all of these places have shut down.

[@marielf-r5228]

as someone whos been in a REAL fucking pysch ward and treatment program, this make me want to fucking throw up

[@abstractness]

prisons at this point are heaven

[@alexlee6487]

It’s good that Steve Wilkos, Maury, Sally, and Jenny Jones didn’t take their out of control teams from their show to those wilderness camps. That’s why Super Nanny is better than Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer, Maury Povich Shows because Jo Frost gives great advice instead of roasting everyone like Phil, and Springer

[@mrgonzo2139]

God some parents are the fucken worst. so you cant raise your child okay. so you jus send em off too a camp with no contact with you, the 2 people that are suppose too protect them from anything and your not there.

[@yeeyuh4519]

that place was just sadists trying to create sadists.

[@danaoo6272]

Unfortunately, even some doctors who overlook a CBT program like this has historically demonstrated and have proven what they are capable of with unethical research such as the little Albert study, the monster study, the mk ultra study, and the Stanford prison study to only name a few which there is no Belmont Report set of ethical guidelines to develop nor implement into their standard of care. To hear the tactics used in such camps of behavior and thought reform are the identical tactics implemented towards victims in domestic abuse and the relationships including marriages which end up in early mortality. The similar tactics to simply "break" a person down then develop the new conditioned belief system and behavior is not justified. No abuses should ever be tolerated and unfortunately, what programs like these do is groom and normalize our future generation to seek out and subconsciously believe they deserve domestic violence including confusing that such abusive tactics is a form of love. Not a good example to teach the children.

[@ky1ebetts]

Bleach.. Tastes like burn.

[@kryptie7259]

fuck. my mom is sending me to one of these. im fucked.

[@fatumamohammad2895]

Please remember God is Mighty and Mercyful God is Rich and Unharmful

[@heytam7162]

This is evil not of God! I pray all the survivors of these “camps” can find peace & love in their lives.

[@mypalsalvintage135]

MK Ultra treatments

[@theend1199]

Sounds like a good ol time😒 sarcasme

[@Dorit0z_777]

This is fake

[@speakyourheart8548]

Psychiatric hospitals are much worse.

[@blaiddthewolf8532]

rain dew psychiatric hospitals are annoying and frustrating, but they are in no way worse than this

[@iloilee]

Psychiatric hospitals are not worse than this. They have windows, they have visiting hours, they have beds, meals, and therapy. Unless you went to some sort of prison type mental hospital in a foreign country then you can shut the hell up about it being worse. Of course awful things happen in mental hospitals and we need better mental health programs and treatments but the people in this video went through actual torture. Every single day they went through physical abuse, starvation, rape, emotional abuse, neglect, etc. Mental hospitals in the 1800s were like this and it’s terrible to imagine, but modern day mental hospitals in first world countries can’t compare.

[@TheWarsuron]

intel services are behind this more than likely

[@minouchejean7339]

Wow white parent's sending their children to get timeout😅😅😅😅😂😂😂

[@Astriellah]

……

[@ShadowTheSoulless]

WHO THE FUCK DROWNED THESE KITTENS, I WANT THE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE NOW, also the teen torture is bad too.

[@mayseeyang5953]

How about the abuse that these kids put parents through? When can we raise the white flag and yell out "I surrender please help"? Is this a program out there for parents who are at the brink of a mental breakdown from the abuse of their bratty children? Its more than just physical- the system we live in gives parents practically no ways to punish these bratty kids. The right approach is to give them therapy only then they laugh in our faces when we can't touch them. Sometimes I want child services to get involve and take my kids away. Maybe I am a bad parent because as hard as I try- I am never good enough. I can never do anything right. I just work to provide a roof over their heads, put food on the table, have medical insurance so I can take them to the dr if they are sick. Give them each a bed to sleep in- all I want from them is to go to school, do their daily chores, be respectful to others, do not lie and steal and cheat. The government's hands are tied with real abused and neglected children that they don't have room for my spoil brats... *sigh* true story... when my 13 year old daughter tried to commit suicide because I took her phone away after finding photos of her exposing herself... Yeah.... You tell me how to parent these kids cause I'm about to stroke out, dye, and leave them orphans.. Maybe I will just run away from home and fake my death so I wouldn't have to keep being their pitch of a mother. *true story* my 13 year old son was caught smoking not once, not twice, but many many times and still lied to his dad and I. He took beers from the fridge and claim to know nothing. I have this pressure spot on my back towards the left should blade- it is hurting right now and its hard for me to breathe. Seriously- I will probably die due to all this stress my kids are causing me. Stroke out and hopefully it will just take me. I don't want to be a vegetable.

[@kattennala8516]

there are different ways to help your children then sending them to these disgusting places- plus so many kids that go to these places didn't even do bad things, many of them just struggled with depression or something- there are SO MANY more solutions to helping your kids rather than putting them in this hell hole

[@SaraS-jq1ln]

What better way to straighten out your kids than to show them how their life couldve been. Theyll appreciate what they have after lol

[@pinkfreud62]

Well, if they would have behaved and acted like human beings they wouldn't have had to go there.

[@chaytonthompson5928]

pinkfreud62 g8 b8

[@valeriaj2080]

Still . Just cuz they are bad doesn’t mean they should mentally torture them

[@iDontShareMyData]

As a survivor, I assure you while I was a bit of a loser, being subjected to 2+ years of torture is not anything I or any other of my fellow inmates deserved. Try a 24 hour brainwashing session or two, or maybe a month in isolation w/12 hours a day hauling rocks before snapping off such sad clichés.

[@fashionhistorylover]

Porn & Coco Parents are not the only influence in their life. What about kids who are normal and then change because of bad influences from other kids?

[@fashionhistorylover]

pinkfreud62 Some kids are sent there because their parents are overzealous not because they were out of control.

[@truthseeker8200]

Well looks like it worked anyway.. Just saying. Sometimes discipline is needed

[@graceelizabeth4879]

Leah Acres no one deserves this, especially kids.

[@survivingstraightinc]

Child abuse is not "discipline" - this show was about places that go too far...places that torture and abuse kids and call it "treatment" or "discipline."

[@wienerwiener1]

Leah Acres I hope you go here fucking bitch

[@iloilee]

Leah Acres: Are you fucking stupid? Kids are sent there and they go through extreme physical abuse, torture, rape, starvation, emotional abuse, neglect, and more. It drives those poor kids and teens to commit suicide. How is that discipline? That’s straight up abuse.

[@abstractness]

she's just saying t worked.