Severe School Phobia: Child-Psychiatric Opinion re. homeschooled Melissa Busekros

http://www.helmut-boegelein.de/Urteil_Wiesses_ueber_Melissa_auf_Englisch.html ^

[cornelis]

Thanks for posting that.

[Aquinasfan]

5. CURRENT ABNORMAL PSYCHOSOCIAL SITUATIONS: Abnormal educational conditions

Yes, the conditions are abnormal. But the more important question is, is her educational environment good?

What's more important, a normal "education" or a good education? < /rhetorical question>

[Kozak]

a basic reorientation in a special education facility / group home is urgently required in order to avoid danger to the further development.

[Aquinasfan]

Psycho babble with authority, that is. Just listen to this: an oppositional denial-syndrome. Melissa lacks insight into her illness and the need for treatment, and considers herself healthy and her behaviour fully normal.

From "Airplane II: The Sequel."

Setting: a psych ward. Two attendants hold a patient down while a doctor readies a sedative.

PATIENT: "The food here is terrible! The nurses are awful! And they're charging me $500 a day!"

(Doctor administers sedative.)

ON-LOOKER: "What's wrong with the patient doctor?"

DOCTOR: "The man is obviously insane."

[Aquinasfan]

This is basically an exact description of how I felt EVERY FREAKING DAY in public school up through the eighth grade.

Easily the worst years of my life, and that includes the death of my parents at a fairly young age. High school didn't start for us until ninth grade, so we got an extra year of torture.

[cornelis]

It reminded me of Denzel Washington in the Manchurian Candidate.

[redstates4ever]

Nineteen Eighty Four.

[rbosque]

Coming to a school district near you!

[cornelis]

Coming to a school district near you!

Possible, but it isn't fated.

[webstersII]

"Easily the worst years of my life"

Ditto.

[rbosque]

Hope you're right. The left's drum beat seems louder.