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Jul 2025
59m 51s

S24 Ep1: Power Corrupts and Absolute Pow...

Broken Cycle Media
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Season 24 of Something Was Wrong shares the harrowing truths of institutional child abuse through powerful interviews with survivors of wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools, and other institutions around the world. These firsthand accounts expose an alarming pattern of abuse, neglect, and trauma disguised as treatment, alongside testim ... Show More
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S24 Ep2: Unsilenced
<div> <strong>*Content warning</strong>: institutional child abuse, childhood abuse, death of a child, suicide, psychological, physical and sexual violence, abduction, kidnapping, disordered eating, stressful themes, disability abuse, ableism, PTSD, medical abuse and neglect. <br ... Show More
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S24 Ep3: A Carcass
<div> <strong>*Content warning</strong>: self-harm, childhood abuse, institutional child abuse, suicidal ideation, suicide,  psychological, physical and sexual violence involving children, disability abuse, abduction, kidnapping, stressful themes, substance use disorder, medical ... Show More
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S24 Ep4: This Could've Been You
<div> <strong>*Content warning</strong>: distressing topics, childhood abuse, death, psychological, sexual and physical violence of children, self-harm, murder, psychological and physical violence of children, substance use disorder, cultic abuse, Institutional child abuse, ‘trou ... Show More
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