I’m O.D.D., okay?! 🙃 Get over it.
As someone who was diagnosed with oppositional defiance disorder (ODD), freedom - or personal agency - has been the number one thing I’ve valued for as long as I can remember. We believe it’s extremely important to give young people entering adulthood or leaving treatment a path to personal agency right out of the gate. Here’s how.
Treatment made me forget how to talk to people.
Imagine you’re heading off to your freshman year of college. You have that excited-anxious feeling about living on your own, making new friends, wondering if people will like you, and taking college classes. Now imagine feeling that way, but you haven’t talked to your peers for the last two years.
We’re so done with therapy.
Don’t even trip. It’s not what you think…
Wait...what do you mean I have an educational consultant?? 🎓
…said every former troubled teen who was sent to a therapeutic program. While in these programs, there was exactly ONE thing that we needed from our educational consultants.
When the latest Netflix doc calls your residential treatment center a cult 😱
Last Tuesday, The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping was released on Netflix. We were straight-up shook after watching it.
introducing…Not your therapist
Our view on Trails Carolina and wilderness program closures as young people who spent their teen years in psych wards, wilderness, and residential treatment centers.