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Don't know if I should post this, but I'm searching for answers and closure.
So I was in a Mexican Anexo maybe like 6 years ago and I have questions, I was not able to find much information online. I'm a US citizen, I was having problems, and my family heard of an Anexo that rehabilitated family members of ours, so they decided to send me there. So when I got there, I guess I arrived at the half way house, it seemed chill, calm, fun, cute girl there, I had no idea I was going to be transferred somewhere else. After my family left, like a few days later, they took all my clothes away, gave me sandals, a big t-****, shorts, and then they took me like in a 5 hour drive to a camp in some ranch I guess. It got weird, at one point they covered up the windows after we passed a military check point, the soda they gave me to drink got me real sleepy, I could not stay awake and this happened early in the day, so I know I was not sleepy.
Anyways, I was there with deported gang members and criminals from Mexico, and they were all hardcore, sharing stories of what they done in the past openly. I never experienced so much negativity in long stretches in time my life before, I mean horror story after horror story, I mean I grew up with a few gangmembers, know a couple older ones here in the US, but they don't compare to the ones in that Anexo. A couple of times it got physical with me because I wanted to go home, and I would not listen, it went from a small twisting of my arm, to a full on assault that included being tied up and taken to the river to have cold water poured on me nude, after that I learned my lesson. I can honestly say that was the brainwashing breaking point, where I forgot about my family, and everything, and just wanted to stay out of another major beating.
I also heard in there by many members that the facility was illegal, that it was worst than prison and that is where my question lies. Online I did find that Anexos are underground rehabs, found horror stories like mine, I never been to prison, but is it true that Anexos are worst than prison? I mean I know some stuff about prisons from friends and TV. There was no talk about any politics, what many people talk about that in prison; like mandatory workouts, only talking to certain people, only playing cards with certain people, from what I saw the Mexicans had control. I would see the gangmembers always taking orders to do things, and getting in trouble more than the Mexicans who never been to the US. So I cant say I had it that bad, they all knew I had papers, was an American citizen, so they treated me with respect, when I listened of course.
Anyhow I just want to know if anyone has ever been to an Anexo, was it psychologically traumatic, shocking, how did you re-adjust back into society when you got out, did you feel brainwashed after being forced to learn all these responses to tell the Padrinos, or the people in charge, did listening to negativity all day about violence, crime, rape, hate, make you pessimistic?
Well for me I had trouble talking, I kept to myself 95% of my time there, so I did very little talking, and I had to relearn to talk again. I lost a lot of weight just eating rice and beans with water 3 times a day, I could feel my bones, that's how skinny I got. At first I was scared to see some many gangmembers, but they were all very cool, except when I did not listen and they had to take action, but literally right after that they were nice like nothing happened. It took a while maybe over a year to feel better, now 6 years later I'm better than ever, and I have to say the AA members, Na members, gangmembers I know from the US who are or were criminals seem soft to me tbh, those guy in the Anexo I met were really some of the worst I met, no wonder they got deported, made me realize that a life of crime is actually harder than school.
lol yeah I tried talking to my counselor about this and all he said, people who come out of an environment like that have a very low chance of actually recuperating and usually end up back, I tried to explain that is was not a Mexican jail or prison, but it seemed like I was talking physics to infant. It's been bugging me that there is not a lot of information on Anexos, underground rehab centers, it'll be nice to find a support group.
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