Posted on 12/28/2016 7:02:35 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Inside the $30k-A-MONTH rehab center teaching millennials how to grow up with classes in basic life skills like cleaning and 'how to show up'
For $28,000 a month, patients will get taught basic life skills such as cooking, cleaning and even 'showing up' at Yellowbrick in Illinois
Other treatments include therapy, yoga, meditation and art therapy
The rehab center was founded ten years ago to specifically treat 'emerging adult' brains - millennials who had 'failed to launch' from their parents
Patients include a student who tried to take his own life after his parents found out he'd lost his part-time job
Diagnosed with depression, major anxiety, and panic disorder in remission, he was prescribed what Yellowbrick called 'nutraceuticals' aka vitamins
Success of rehab center is mixed, with 80 per cent of patients relapsing
Brain experts have also questions some treatments they say are unproven
We have all heard the stereotype; the fragile little snowflake millennial who cannot deal with the real world.
Well now an Illinois rehab center is charging the parents tens of thousands of dollars a month to teach their pampered millennials how to finally grow up.
For $28,000 a month, privileged 20-somethings who have failed to reach their 'true potential', will get basic life skills in scheduling, cleaning and even 'showing up', according to Fusion.
Therapy and group sessions are supplements by treatments such as art classes, yoga and meditation.
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I always figured an escalator was a self-reinforcing training device.
This needs to be posted on the wall in every room at Yellowbrick.
Very convenient for the rehab center to build in an 80% relapse rate ‘cause they have to keep coming back for more. A little like the Despair.com poster, “Consulting. ... there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
Nobody who saw him could forget Maynard G Krebs. “Work. WORK!”
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