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You’d be surprised. More cunning abusers can readily have a therapist wrapped around their finger before the teen/kid/whoever figures out that abuse is the source of their issue. Then you have the very dangerous situation of a therapist reinforcing them, and simultaneously causing the victim to conclude that mental health professionals are not safe, even if they do eventually escape.
You're absolutely right. I had no idea until (I can't believe I'm saying this) Paris Hilton talked about what she went through. Truly horrifying. >

Yep. Paris Hilton isn't some dumb bimbo - that was a VERY carefully manufactured image she used to escape her controlling family. They had a lot of money and very good lawyers, and she knew they could send her back to the abuse ranch at any time, so she cozied up to paparazzis, tabloids, and D-list celebrities. She fabricated an entire lifestyle as a socialite to make sure she had a camera on her at all times so that if she disappeared, it would make national news.
Edit: Also, these so-called "treatment centers" are often used to target gay kids or those who try to leave oppressive religions. They should be re-branded as conversion centers. >

This is brilliant. I'm so sorry for her, that she had to endure that and had to put her entire life out there for protection in visibility. I don't know much about her personally, but her testimony to congress was very well done and her activism against these centers has made me respect her so much. >

I had to click on this story since I've heard about the insane facilities for troubled teens. But, I was also confused. How does a teen in Utah die in a hurricane? Oh, there's a place in Utah named Hurricane? Okie dokie. >

Its a place in south west Utah >

Today I learned. >

Me too. >

I’ve had friends kidnapped in their sleep and taken to Utah or Minnesota. It’s a pretty fked up recount if you ever can talk to someone who went through it. >

Anyone who sends their child to a facility like this deserves considerable jail time. Fuck “troubled teen” centers. >

The fucking audacity of these parents having large men, complete strangers, enter their children's rooms in the middle of the night and say "you're coming with us no matter what" and forcibly take them to these camps is sickening. Any teen who gets "gooned", parental approved literal kidnapping, is ethically in the right to take any means necessary to rescue themselves in my personal opinion.
If you have to resort for strange men to enter your childs room in the middle of the night without warning to fucking kidnap them and have some fucking group in the middle of nowhere deal with them, congratulations, you failed as a parent. I don't give a shit what these kids did, you handle it as a family and get proper mental health care. >

If the parents are abusive, they probably wouldn't want mental health care, they might become a subject of investigation.