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Stolen - An Adolescence Lost to the Troubled Teen Industry (Hardcover)
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Stolen - An Adolescence Lost to the Troubled Teen Industry (Hardcover)
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At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked
swimmer and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors her
undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing
angrier by the day, she began skipping practices and drinking to
excess. At a loss, her parents turned to an educational consultant
who suggested Elizabeth be enrolled in a behavioral modification
program. That recommendation would change her life forever. The
nightmare began when she was abducted from her bed in the middle of
the night by hired professionals and dropped off deep in the woods
of Appalachia. Living with no real shelter was only the beginning
of her ordeal: she was strip-searched, force-fed, her name was
changed to a number and every moment was a test of physical
survival. After three brutal months, Elizabeth was transferred to a
boarding school in Southern Virginia that in reality functioned
more like a prison. Its curriculum revolved around a perverse form
of group therapy where students were psychologically abused and
humiliated. Finally, at seventeen, Elizabeth convinced them she was
rehabilitated enough to "graduate" and was released. In this
eye-opening and unflinching book, Elizabeth recalls the horrors she
endured, the friends she lost to suicide and addiction, and-years
later-how she was finally able to pick up the pieces of her life
and reclaim her identity.
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