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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
Oh, how the prison-like environment can make you feel so is understandable. Strip-searching and no shoelace - even if it is supposedly for your benefit and safety, it is hard not to feel like an inmate.
But now that you are at home, do you still feel as you described?
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No, it's my hang-up. I wasn't even technically inpatient, it was a partial program, M-F 9-3:30 with an hour off for lunch, nothing locked, free to come and go within reason.
If the above had happened to me I would be dead today, strip-searched and restrained etc. I was degraded enough as it was. My motto now is death before dishonor.
But yes, two years later, I am still bitter, cynical, traumatized.
Please don't let my personal albatross dissuade you from your comment, it IS true, I just can't feel or accept it. I needed TlC and was treated like America's Most Wanted.