I remember seeing this years ago and the Lifetime movie it inspired. Heart wrenching stuff. We need a safe place, comfort and love to become well adjusted people.

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>> ^UsesProzac:

I remember seeing this years ago and the Lifetime movie it inspired. Heart wrenching stuff. We need a safe place, comfort and love to become well adjusted people.


I agree but I think we can also fix ourselves and find our love to become well adjusted. Different people react differently, some go through the horrors of hell and come out better than most would. We should work hard at helping people find their love rather than writing them off as "spoiled" (Not that I'm suggesting you did that I just see that some people do).

I would like to meet her birth father.

This is a nice thought, and while I agree that this may be applicable to most, this story seems to be about kids (Beth and the others in the home she eventually moved into) who have a programming defect. The trauma so early in her life stifled an essential step in the socialization of the brain as it developed biologically. Love isn't enough to get past that.>> ^Yogi:


I agree but I think we can also fix ourselves and find our love to become well adjusted. Different people react differently, some go through the horrors of hell and come out better than most would. We should work hard at helping people find their love rather than writing them off as "spoiled" (Not that I'm suggesting you did that I just see that some people do).

I don't think I could even watch this.

>> ^RhesusMonk:
This is a nice thought, and while I agree that this may be applicable to most, this story seems to be about kids (Beth and the others in the home she eventually moved into) who have a programming defect. The trauma so early in her life stifled an essential step in the socialization of the brain as it developed biologically. Love isn't enough to get past that.>> ^Yogi:


I agree but I think we can also fix ourselves and find our love to become well adjusted. Different people react differently, some go through the horrors of hell and come out better than most would. We should work hard at helping people find their love rather than writing them off as "spoiled" (Not that I'm suggesting you did that I just see that some people do).



If you catch the end of the documentary, Beth does respond to the love and care of others, develops a conscience and self-awareness of her behavior, and is repentant of her former actions. As it mentioned, she still needed extensive help, but the concerted effort by caring individuals, and the steady support of her loving family, was turning Beth around.

Also at the end of the video, the narrator says that "although [Beth had made progress, she would still need extensive therapy." I do agree that loving support was an important part of how and why she got the help she did, but it was the treatment that helped her. There's just no way she would have recovered if her parents just focused their love and support on her and hoped for the best; a mind with this kind of pathology needs more than that.>> ^shinyblurry:

>> ^RhesusMonk:
This is a nice thought, and while I agree that this may be applicable to most, this story seems to be about kids (Beth and the others in the home she eventually moved into) who have a programming defect. The trauma so early in her life stifled an essential step in the socialization of the brain as it developed biologically. Love isn't enough to get past that.>> ^Yogi:


I agree but I think we can also fix ourselves and find our love to become well adjusted. Different people react differently, some go through the horrors of hell and come out better than most would. We should work hard at helping people find their love rather than writing them off as "spoiled" (Not that I'm suggesting you did that I just see that some people do).


If you catch the end of the documentary, Beth does respond to the love and care of others, develops a conscience and self-awareness of her behavior, and is repentant of her former actions. As it mentioned, she still needed extensive help, but the concerted effort by caring individuals, and the steady support of her loving family, was turning Beth around.