Peninsula Village

[jamieg1tube]

I tried to write a letter the Sherrif of Blount County, and one to the news, but they intercepted it, and it never got through! Bastards!!!!!!!!!!!! These cocksuckers really FUCKING ABUSED ME! and no one was there to help.

[helenhelenhelen92]

but for those who have experienced horrors there before my time, please message me, because i am highly interested!

[jamieg1tube]

@helenhelenhelen92 I was there in 86-87. I was held down and shot in the ass with Haldol, and taken to SCU, put in a padded cell for days; all kinds of craziness.

[helenhelenhelen92]

my parents are manipulative, controlling, and extremely co-dependent and previously extremely abusive (personally, i didnt mind being restrained. better than what my dad's fists had to offer), and so i still live as a prisoner. i hold resentments against some of this, especially dr raman, but the village was really beautiful, the idea is. i think its one of those things where it sounds good, but doesnt work out. i still miss the place and its people and plan to visit!

[helenhelenhelen92]

even then, i was so doped up that sometimes i barely talked and so i wasnt really that fun of a person to be around. sometimes, i miss this place, but then i look back at it and realize how much it sucked. it didnt help me worth a crap. from the meds, i lost my ability to write. and i was going to be a bigshot writer. i relapsed on drugs, cutting, and more. i was ready to run away and live on the streets. i also got my rights of an adult taken away while i was there, and it followed me out.

[johnnymac3385]

@helenhelenhelen92 i didnt have enough room 2 finish on my comment..if there r any people that was there from 02 to march 03 i from the bear clan or any boys from any clan i'm sure i would remember. i would love 2 hear from u..i have relasped since leaving the first time 1 moth after i got out.i had nightmares of that place 4 a long time. i live in AZ now i'm in the methadone clinic and i'm getting ready 2 get my medical canibis card it helps me function so if

[helenhelenhelen92]

Don't get me wrong, it was still pretty bad. They put you to work in every way shape or form. It was a softcore version of a concentration camp. Everything was controlled and monitored, it was 1984. I don't think that most of my clan members could really stand me up until the end when fricking Dr. Raman DOPED ME DOWN with all these types of meds and i was suddenly their good little zombie, doing everything as they told me to and getting my DC date early for it.

[helenhelenhelen92]

I was at PV/The Village from October 2009 to September 2010. I am a recent alumni. Good news is, they got rid of the physical care methods and they don't restrain as hard anymore and try to do it as less as possible! They also don't really use straight jackets anymore. I know a girl on the unit who got put on the restraint bed, but she got out of it within only an hour or so, as I recall! If you mess up outside, all they do is just escort you back to the Unit!

[johnnymac3385]

@helenhelenhelen92 i was at PV from apr02-mar03 and it was one of the worst and hardest things i've ever had 2 do. i've heard a lot of other awful stories since leaving. i was restained as a lot of us were one time they restained me behind the pro building on the gravels and i had gravel burn and scratches on my face 4 weeks. they also told me and my parents that i would relaspe and relaspe was normal. i signed myself out on my 18th bday there was no way i wa gonna stay if i didnt have 2.

[Diskoboy1974]

I was a patient there from 1992-93.

I'm sorry to have to use this analogy, but Jews in Auschwitz had more rights than your kid will at this place. And were treated better.

NOTE TO PARENTS: Whatever your kid tells you about this place, is true. Get them OUT OF THERE immediately.

[psyborgue]

Some of the most chilling stories of abuse and mistreatment i've heard from survivors of that place.  ZenAgent is right about PV.

[tjcleach]

I am actually in this video (recycle girl) and this was at an alumni retreat. All of the alumni love each other and are very close! PV was a hard time for everyone and it wasn't something I would want to go through again, but it has helped a lot of people, including myself get to where we are today.

[ZenAgent]

And done an incredible amount of harm to others. Does it balance out in your mind? Are these "acceptable losses"? PV's relapse rate is so bad Pegler is telling parents that relapse is "natural". It isn't. PV's "failures'" are hidden and the successes don't last long. How's Ryan Sullivan, the poster boy from WATE-TV? Sad, sad, sad. So is the boy who died rather than return to PV. How can anyone recommend PV in good conscience?

[ssj3g0tenks]

hey zen!!!! it's me Jeffrey HW i have been wanting to talk to you for the longest time! PV is an egregious place absolutely...

hopefully you have facebook! i would love to meet you it would be a true honor

[km59libra]

@ZenAgent

Hi. I don't think I know anyone here, but I, too, have been to Peninsula Village. I was there from 1999-2000. It was a tough place, and I can agree with a good bit on the fact that it certainly wasn't designed for the individual. I was successful leaving the STU unit, but shortly after the cabins, I signed myself out. Oh well, I am happy to share more if anyone is interested.......My name is Katie, by the way, and I am currently 29 years old/ from Cary, North Carolina.

[TkdArtist92]

@km59libra i was at PV from 2005-2007. Not a fun place. Some things were helpful. But other things were just down right torture. When I left PV I relapsed. Now that I am getting help again, I feel much better. PV did not give me a clear diagnosis. I have a clear diagnosis now and am getting help that is designed for me. Not for a group. And by the way, I live in Charlotte, N.C.

[jamieg1tube]

@ZenAgent Pegler is still there? I was there in 86-87. What a fucked up place!

[Sushimom000]

Eleven years ago, a friend of mine took his life because his parents were sending him back to peninsula village again. He confided in me weeks before that he would NEVER go back to the village. He hated his high school, and his parents buried him in the school's football jersey and class ring. Super nice kid, just happened to have trouble with his adoptive parents at home. Looking back, I am certain there was something more that his parents could have done. "Tough-love" was not what he needed.

[ssj3g0tenks]

PENINSULA VILLAGE NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN TENNESSEE FEDERAL COURT FOR

1. Violation of U.S. Constitution 1st Amendment (illegal search and seizure)

2. Violation of U.S. Constitution 8th Amendment (freedom from cruel & unusual punishment)

3. Violation of U.S. Constitution 13th Amendment (freedom from slavery except when ordered as

[ssj3g0tenks]

(continued) punishment for a criminal conviction in which I never was arrested)

4. Violation of habeas corpus

5. Medical Malpractice of a Severe Nature

6. Mild to Severe Physical Child Abuse to patients for unprovoked reason

[ssj3g0tenks]

A. Severe Psychological Trauma

B. Dishonesty/Fraud to parents who their children were censored from telling them the real deal with PV

C. Severe HIPPA confidentiality violations for

D. Confidentiality allegations

E. Making it difficult for patients to seek help from emergency authorities when needed

[TheEbonicsCorrector]

Fuck PV

[ginamauro89]

i've been out of PV for 7 months now and i miss it so much. i was there for 18 months. most alumni do relapse, but after the relapse, stay clean. it's an 85% success rate. i know a lot of people think it was prison or hell, but i was going to die if it wasn't for PV. i have relapsed and i've struggled, but i'm so much better off. PV was the toughest thing i've been through, but it taught me i was strong enough to live, stay clean, and be happy.

[raugajht31]

wow i recognize alot of the staff! shows how people care enough to stick around! screw u ZenAgent! those r great people!

[FUPV]

wow, you've got a lot of hatred, dude! Let ZenAgent and the others contact you so you can set them straight! raugajh31 is Roger James Goble, 865-271-8376. Give the illiterate ass clown a call PV survivors!

[FUPV]

wow, you've got a lot of hatred, dude! Let ZenAgent and the others contact you so you can set them straight! raugajh31 is Ronald James Goble, 865-271-8376. Give the illiterate ass clown a call PV survivors!

[DieYuppieSkum]

in terms of PV, I don't care who you are or what you think.... if you went you went through hell.. if you broke then I pity you.,.. but this "Avanita"??? no matter what she is my sister... and I am sad she died... and I have had many friends die... this girl is not my friend, never even met her but I know what she experienced. FUCK PV.

[TurnmyPaige]

I was restrained twice in the cabins for stupid reasons. I had to have back surgery the next year, although they thought nothing was wrong with me. And after spending at least an hour doing push ups till I couldn't move, my staff jerked me up by my arms off the floor because I couldn't do anymore, I stumbled, and they proceeded to have my cabin mate hit the alarm. I was then slammed to the ground and restrained. Although I wasn't fighting. They held me down for 2 hours. I could go on...

[johnnymac3385]

@TurnmyPaige yeah PV was hell i was restrained 24 times in the 11 months i spent there i actually kept count and remember most of them in stu but i had a good 7 or 8 outside one time behind the pro building in the gravels b4 u walk down in the woods 2 the ropes corse. i was literally picked up from bhind and slamed down it lasted hours after it got dark they put a body jacket on the growd it was a straight jacket without arms put me in it then in a van and took me 2 stu 4 2 days. 

[TurnmyPaige]

It's really good to see that, what I assume, some people have a good experience with this place. I'm 23 now, I was there when I was in the 8th grade. It was the worst moments of my life. I'm sorry to say but I didn't learn anything in that place. I didn't belong there either. I wasn't into drugs, booze, or anything. I was a very deppressed little girl who needed attention from someone positive. And all they gave me was rude, negative attention. I was very sick there and they lied & humilated me.

[Revbone450]

BUT...who is the hottie in the recycling shirt

OMG!!!!

too bad she is clean and sober though.....

[ZenAgent]

Obviously you're unfamiliar with Peninsula Village's relapse rate. It's easy to keep a kid straight when they're locked up, but back in the real world...Some parents just lock 'em up when they get home, praying for them to turn legal and get out.

[ZenAgent]

Speaking of relapses - I recognize one of those girls - Avanita. Sadly, she relapsed and overdosed. The guys she was with stuffed her body in a car trunk and fled. No, sobriety is a temporal thing once the kids arms are out of the straitjackets.

[aludra09]

really, please point out which one is Avnita.

all these pictures were taken over a year after she od'ed, she didn't know any of these girls, and she's not in them, so I'm a little confused and would love you to point her out. or is this just another lie you make up about the Village to make a point in your perpetual quest to take them down instead of moving on?

and all these people are alumnae or staff while these pics are being taken which is a violation of no law. nor is it posed.

[aludra09]

oh, you're an adult! that makes it even better!

like I said, you weren't able to pick out Avnita, and she's not in the video.

and if you were a parent why didn't you take her out immediately? waiting 6 months seems like you unnecessarily prolonged your poor baby's "recurring trauma."

[ZenAgent]

I have absolutely no interest in arguing with your irrational bitterness on You Tube.If you would like to address these issues catch me at the next parent meeting in Atlanta. This IS a PV tribute video and this IS the same group of girls residing at PV when the memorial service for Avnita was held. There is a girl in the video with dark hair and skin who looks very much like Avnita.

Sorry counselor, my mistake.

You seem to have extreme anger issues. Am I going to have to call group on you?

[Revbone450]

hey quicksilver, you ever get PCI'd?

my cousin just got sent there, and I have been looking up info on this Gulag all day.

man what a nightmarish hellhole, I am soooooog glad I am over 18 so they can't send me there

[stoodoodog]

GO STEVE!!

[sksteve666]

wow that is a crock of shit i was in there for almost a year and not one day was happy this is a complete load of crap. dont forget to mention the part about the stu where you sit there if you talk you get restrained thats a little dramatic the cabin program is a little better but i mean come on better compared to shit

[louisriot]

Im not really sure how things are run there now, but there was certainly none of that going on when I was there (i.e. makeup, fashionable clothes, jewelry, physical contact with others...) i only recognized one actual staff member.

[BigDogKris]

I like my video much better. Yours is just a pile of shit. And I am in full support of what ZenAgent and DieYuppieScum said

[ZenAgent]

I saw the Beatles quote at the end...you think John Lennon would have approved of a teen prison that uses physical violence, mechanical and restraints to "breakdown" and control children? Or takes away all self expression through art, music, and writing? Lennon would have had some choice things to say about PV, I don't think he would have seen the "love".

[ZenAgent]

I'm in agreement with DieYuppieScum. Why tell him to move on and get over himself? Why don't you take your advice and get over PV?  If you say that PV showed "love" to everyone out there, I've got some pictures for YOU to see. PV is abusive. I realize those pictures are from the alumni retreat, but did you get permission releases signed by everyone in the pics allowing you to post them?

I'm glad to see PV taught you to respect others' opinions, you're just like those "loving" PV staffers.

[erinnleigh08]

I'm in these photos and I was a resident.All the kids in this video were. PV staff are some of the most loving people I have ever met in my life. This video honestly has more to do with the relationship each of the girl alumni in this video have formed than PV itself. Move on, get over yourself.

[DieYuppieSkum]

so I guess PV has canned their "privacy policy" unless this is just another shit filled PHOTO OP to show how helpful it is. In which case none of these kids were ever residents. I was and I will say one thing, if there is one thing PV staff hate more then the truth it's cameras.