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I’m watching this on Amazon Prime now. I just watched the process where he’s admitted into the hospital or center or what ever they claim it is. The same thing happened to me as a teenager in the early 90s. The place I was at was often left in hands of psychology students who were close to my own age. I was 17 and many were very early 20s. While I believe this situation saved my life as my parents finally got me psychological care, the staff treated the patients very poorly. We were locked in rooms and some locked in tiny rooms hardly big enough for one table and chair. Not long after I left the place was shut down due many complaints. I’ve gotten in touch with former patients and some were wrongly sent off to one of those out door camps that was suppose cure teenage problems. I eventually found out my parents were encouraged that for me too. I suspect the place I went was likely a front to gain more patients to these outdoor wilderness camps. My former roommate was just 13 and at 14 sent to the wilderness camp and abandoned alone for three days to survive on her own. This was her introduction to it.

As horrible as the situation was for me I still feel it saved my life as I had attempted suicide many times. My parents had been in dental of my mental health problems. But the process of admitting patients was clearly staged as just about any teen taken the where I went was automatically admitted. I even learned later the center even often got judge approval to hold kids longer if parents disagreed. Most of my 17th year was spent in one of these places.

I did attempt suicide again after leaving but finally got a good psychologist and the help I needed.

But this place is nicer than I was. We had a tv but only watched it once a week and it was always movie picked out for us. Usually old boring movies. No music at all except in what was called music therapy and that was once a month or less. We were not even allowed books or magazines unless the count the Bible or hand guide of rules. We had no access to pens or pencils unless it was for school work in a tiny school room.

A scene shows Danny and a girl walking down a hall alone. Where I was that wouldn’t have been allowed. We were watched 24/7 and never alone with anyone else except in therapy sessions with a psychiatrist or in our room with a roommate at night. But at night we had bed checks every hour which means a flash light in the face. This place had way more freedom than where I went.