Lies!!!
the whole reason i made this blog is to set so things straight. I just read a blog when i was looking up Peninsula Village, which is an adolesent treatment center, wrote by mokara9
Some of the things that were said were the truth but she expanded the truth.... to far.
My name is Amber. I am from TN. i was also in PV for 18 months and 3 days. i was on the locked unit (STU) for 8 1/2 months. it is aggervating to hear people make up lies about a place that changed your life. Just because this person did not follow the rules and try to help herself become a better person that is not to be put on Peninsula Village.
"I was in the lock down unit for six months on arrival although I was cowed, completely subservient and did everything they told me to. I was physically restrained on the first day in a hospital gown by at least 8 large adults for nothing more than pulling away gently, it was an impulse reaction, when the large orderly fascist woman dug her nails purposefully into my arm. This was after the intrusive strip search, a full gynecological examine by a nurse in another building and being woken up at 5:30 in the morning by three burly adults who “escorted” me to Tennessee, it was more like being kidnapped."
She says she did everything she was told to. She may have but going to the outdoors program is a privilage. it is for people who are trying to work through there problems. So yes, you can do everything that they say to do but unless you are trying to better yourself and being honest then no, you will stay on stu until you do move forward.
OK now to the bieng physically restrained. Yes they do restrain you if need be. But think about this. she sayss that she was restrained her first day after she was basically "kidnapped" but she did everythign they said and gently pulled her arm away. OK if u had just been "kidnapped" and taken to a different state and told you had to live there until they decided to let you go would you not try to fight or atleast get away?!!!??
ok well that is all i have time to write on this today but please if anyone has any questions let me know and i will answer them. i do not work for them and i am not perfect but it is sickening to hear lies about a place that kept my little happy ass out of jail or dead.
