By Kylie: 2022-2023 I was in Brattleboro Retreat and was put in an isolation unit in Tyler, there for swearing. It was labeled as abusive and violent language, and I was threatened that if I left, I would be physically restrained onto a metal chair with leather straps and I would be chemically sedated. The [...]
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By Anonymous: 2011-2017 I am a Turtle Island citizen (first nation). My family was very loving. I was first put into a a foster home on false grounds as a child in Ottawa, Ontario. I ended up getting assaulted by the biological child of the foster parents, and I was thrown of the second floor [...]
Casa By The Sea
By Katie: 1999 One night in early 1999, I was feeling like I was having another sinus infection. I had already slept a bit that day and it was early at night for me, but I did remember having a headache and mentioning it to my mom. I remember my mother giving me a red [...]
Burwell for Kids
By Thora: 2014-2015 My name is Thora Lodbrok Johnston, and I’m a Troubled Teen Industry survivor. I willingly when to this program that was painted to me as a program called Burwell for Kids with disabilities and that they were going to get me through high school. The first year was great no problems it [...]
Chrysalis School and Intermountain Hospital
By Meg: 2001-2004 I was 15 years old in February of 2001 when I was abducted in the middle of the night by two people who told me that I had to “come with them”. They were very clear about my lack of choice in the matter by stating “we can do this the easy [...]
Solstice West
By Savanna: 2017-2018 The trauma was worse than anything I possibly could have imagined anything could do to a human being. The worst part of looking back at what I went through is that two of my primary abusers are still employed there to this day. And what’s more, is that they delete any and [...]
Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy
By Annalyse: 2011-2013 I had a really hard childhood growing up. It wasn’t my fault but my go to behavior was to self destruct. I was playing video games 24/7 in order to escape what I was dealing with at home. I had just returned home from a 10 month wilderness program called SOAR, but [...]
New Haven RTC
By Veran: 2020-2021 When I was 13, in 2019, I was discharged from the UCLA psych ward and taken to Visions RTC in Los Angeles. It was a short term, so I was only there for 2 months. I had turned 14 there. That was my first experience with the TTI. The UCLA psych ward [...]
Provo Canyon School
By Sasha: 2007 My name is Sasha Oates and I am a survivor of multiple abusive programs. When I was 14, I was struggling with self harm, depression, and an eating disorder. In April of 2007, I was taken from a psychiatric hospital by two transporters, put on a plane, and arrived in Salt Lake [...]
Heritage RTC
By Anonymous: 2014-2015 I’m a survivor of Heritage RTC, aka the Heritage Community, in Provo, Utah. I was sent to Heritage by my school district due to being suspended for getting into fights with other classmates, however I strongly suspect that my autism diagnosis was a major factor in the district’s decision to place me [...]