Staff Survivor Story
The Insight Program Staff Survivor Story: 2015 - 2019
I joined the group when I was 16. For the first couple of years, it seemed like my salvation. It felt like after years of trauma and abuse I had finally come home. For the first time, I felt like I belonged and I fell head over heels for that feeling. I had spent almost every day of the last 5 years not wanting to wake up the next morning and now it felt like my world had filled with color again. I did whatever I wanted and had hundreds of friends who all loved me, just so long as I complied with the rules and expectations imposed on me.
Insight might actually breed drug addicts instead of helping them.
The Insight Program Survivor Story: 2018 - 2021
My story is similar to everyone else’s who dealt with the horrors of Insight. I joined when I was 17. I was only smoking weed (never really touched anything else) when I started the outpatient program. By the time I finally left the group for good, there was about 6 new drugs added to my list. Was it my choice to do them? Yes. I almost feel, however, that insight might breed drug addicts instead of helping them.
Exposing Enthusiastic Sobriety Programs
The Insight Program Survivor Story: 2004 - 2006
Mark from Talk Beliefs hears Liz's story of her two years inside an Enthusiastic Sobriety facility, where prejudices, magical thinking, and bizarre judgments were the order of the day.