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For us, we got people who just left the inpatient hospital in the area but that liked it. It was completely volunteer, people came because they wanted to and they missed the group activities. While I never visited intermountain it gave me the impression that it sometimes did something good for somebody. But we also dealt with substance abuse persons which were a lot more difficult because they wanted suboxone and would do anything to have more suboxone. #1 excuse: "i dropped all of my pills in the toilet so i need a new prescription." How many people can honestly drop a whole bottle of pills in the toilet? I had to administer the pee tests too which totally suckssss.

You could read/watch It's kind of a funny story. It's not hard-core or scary like the ones Salone explained but I liked to imagine that intermountain at least tried to be like that one. Although I did hear stories from friends that that place was horrible. So I don't really know.

I did try seeing a therapist when I was a teenager because my hormones were out of control and I was the angriest most depressed person, and I didn't want to be but I couldn't control my emotions. The lady had me fill out a questionnaire, she read over it and then told my mom I needed to be on 3-4 different kinds of medications. She didn't even talk to me to find out why I answered the questions the way I did or why I was there or what was wrong or anything ,she just read a paper. My mom refused and said we would try an over the counter option first so then I got to actually talk to her . . . and I decided she was a complete wacko. She had me close my eyes and tap my arms for 5 minutes and I was supposed to be thinking about what I wanted to talk about while I did this, but I already knew what I wanted to talk about so I was just annoyed and got very frustrated with her. Then she told me that she believed people who were interested in genders of the same sex were only that way because they had bad relationships with their mother or their father and were seeking a better one with a female or male partner. I cancelled all of my future appointments after that. Then she called my house and demanded to speak to my mom who told me to take a message and the lady told me I was veyr sick and needed serious help and to reconsider cancelling all of my appointments.

That was my only experience with that, never tried again and eventually puberty ended and I like to think I got over it.

The counselors I worked with were really nice people though and I really liked all of them, although they were group therapists rather than individual counselors so that could make a difference I suppose . . .