"Great Love Without Borders" disciplinary treatment of depression is accused of violence
Running a study camp to "cure the disease", the trainee said that he was subjected to violence such as verbal abuse, slaps, and slapping, the police intervened in the investigation; the founder had been sentenced for MLM
Su Xing's diagnosis report. A06-A07 version pictures / photographs from interviewees
Although it has been almost two years, Su Xing still occasionally dreams of her experience of being "punished" in the "Great Love Without Borders" study camp-someone hit her ass with a ruler.
She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 16, and her parents who had nowhere to go had tried countless ways. In the summer of the age of 20, she was taken to the Hulunbeier prairie in Inner Mongolia to participate in a study camp run by a person named "Ju Yuran" .
There, everyone changed into a uniform, and every child on the dinner table toasted his parents, and was disciplined to accept "punishment." Su Xing tried to escape and call the police, but he was eventually sent back to accept "punishment".
In an interview with the Beijing News on May 1, Ju Yuran said that he advocated the "traditional family education model in the East", and that using discipline to "punish" children is an indispensable means to "restore family style" ". He likened himself to a "Don Quixote-style" character, and he started "Great Love Without Borders" to save a painful family. "These children are my children, and I am awakening them with my life."
But in Su Xing's view, Ju Yuran is the shadow of her life, the destroyer of family relations. She posted on the Internet about her experience. Some children who have gone to study camps have also come forward. Most of them are "problem teenagers" in the eyes of their parents-suffering from mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder. Yuran asked to break the medicine and was subjected to different levels of violence, such as verbal abuse, slaps, and slapping.
On the afternoon of May 6, the police of Yandong Police Station in Yancheng City, who received the alarm, told the Beijing News reporter that on May 2 they received an alarm from a minor, saying that "Great Love Without Borders" is a "MLM organization." Investigation has been filed.
At present, the "Great Love Without Borders" Yancheng study camp has been concluded in advance. A staff member said: "We are now entering a collective silence, and at the same time not accepting new family counseling."
The Su Xing family that is accepting Ju Yuran's "link".
Parents who have nowhere to go
Su Xing and mother Li Fang have different expressions about the complete breakdown of family relations.
Su Xing believes that the starting point is that parents have come into contact with the institution of "Great Love Without Borders". It claims to be able to solve "no goals in life, no motivation to learn, procrastination, addiction to the Internet, first love whirlpool, school truancy, school dropouts, black and white reversal, gnawing old worms, confronting parents, parent-child relationships, and couple relationships. Her parents regarded it as a "life-saving straw".
But in the eyes of her mother Li Fang, the deterioration of family relationships started when Su Xing was diagnosed with "bipolar disorder" in high school. After her daughter became ill, she and her husband felt guilty. "It's too good for her to accommodate her with everything, and she's asking us more and more." So that when Su Xing became an adult, she lived alone in Wuhan. He almost didn't go home, blacked out his mother's contact information, and occasionally only communicated with his father.
Li Fang has always been unable to accept the fact that her daughter had "bipolar disorder". She and her husband are both doctors, but in her view, the daughter has nothing wrong with physical symptoms such as dizziness and anorexia. She does not approve of the treatments and prescribed medicines given by doctors because "drugs cannot change a person's thinking, and there are many side effects."
"Great Love Without Borders" coincides with Li Fang's idea-Ju Yuran told the Beijing News reporter that he only admitted to mental diseases caused by brain trauma and nerve damage, and "mental diseases" such as depression None exist. "Great Love Without Borders" claims that they have helped more than 100 children who were diagnosed with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, mania, and mental illness who were forced to take psychotropic drugs and cut off the drugs.
For the first time, Li Fang heard that Ju Yuran and "Great Love Without Borders" were in January 2018. My friend said that Ju "has a great aura and has a set of treatments for children's mental illnesses."
Prior to this, Li Fang had repeatedly sought help from professional doctors, frequently participated in various types of parental wisdom classes and lectures, and had been to Foshan, Guangdong and Hangzhou, Zhejiang. But she felt that these activities were ineffective.
In May of that year, Li Fang and her husband participated in a "sharing meeting" of "Great Love Without Borders" in the Wuhan Tea House. A teacher named "Suhong" told more than 20 parents present that they must distinguish between "feelings and principles" and that "discipline" must be imposed on disobedient children. This is the traditional Chinese family style and the principle that parents cannot give in. .
Later, they talked with Ju Yuran alone and asked him how to ease his relationship with his daughter. Ju Yuran's suggestion was, "Cut off Su Xing's source of life and let her go home."
Li Fang said that according to what Ju Yuran said, they no longer gave Su Xing a living allowance. Soon afterwards, Su Xing really moved back home. This made Li Fang feel that Ju Yuran was very capable.
Study Camp on the Grassland
In July 2018, her parents proposed to Su Xing that they wanted to join her to go to the Hulunbeier Prairie "Great Love Without Borders" to participate in a study tour for about ten days.
Parents spent 90,000 yuan on this study tour. Together with more than a dozen families, they will visit attractions and enjoy the "case counseling, in-depth links, and family adjustments" of Juran, the person in charge of the institution.
On the official website of "Great Love Without Borders", Ju Yuran, known as "Ju Da", was wearing a blue Polo shirt, bald, tall, and fat, leaning against a tree with a smile. He has many titles, including "Founder of Public Welfare Tutor, Visiting Professor of Peking University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, etc., Honorary President of more than 20 middle schools in the country, and DBA of Nice University in France."
Su Xing was reluctant to go, but could not hold back his parents' increasingly tough attitude. They nagged: "It's easy to learn while playing", "After chatting, chat with Ju Yuran, if he makes sense, you Stay there, if you do n’t make sense, you can go at any time. ”
After arriving in the grassland, the Suxing family of three were placed in a yurt. They went to Ergun, where there was an endless meadow and large areas of rapeseed. Ju Yuran took them on horseback, watching Mongolian performances, participating in campfire evenings, and arranged tug-of-war games, dancing and other parent-child games.
The parents were very excited, but Su Xing didn't care. She felt that she was depressed, feeling down, anxious, and insomnia. She didn't want to participate in group activities. She looked sick at the dishes on the table. She took the medicine prescribed by the doctor and ate a quarter of the tablets a day. "But my parents felt that I was not sick and pretended to be sick, forcing me to go out, and if I didn't go, I wouldn't be paid for my living."
During the study tour, Ju Yuran called the Su Xing family to his room, one-to-one "link". Ju Yuran asked the questions in the Su Xing family in detail, and recorded the whole process. A chat lasted for several hours.
After the chat, Ju Yuran made a judgment: Su Xing was not ill. Her "mood" was caused by her parents being too arrogant and the poor communication with her parents. Ju Yuran persuades Su Xing to stop the medicine, go back to school, or go to work in a beauty shop opened by his friend.
He also asked Su Xing to write down the requirements for his parents on the paper. Su Xing wrote "I hope my parents respect me more". Su Xing said, "At that time, his attitude was very good, and my attitude was also very good. I also told him a lot of truth, hoping that he would pity me and let me forget."
"Discipline is a family rule"
Soon, Su Xing discovered that many of the children who participated in the study camp were "cheated" by their parents. Most of them were only teenagers. All with a conflicting mentality-some children are unwilling to get up to participate in activities, and some children are going to commit suicide. Faced with these "unruly" children, Ju Yuran will use his own method to "educate".
There is a boy who loves to play games and thinks he is "Li Yuanfang" in the game. Ju Yuran and the staff took a marker and repeatedly wrote his real name on the boy's face. While writing, he cursed "I don't recognize my ancestor, not a person". Later, the boy's story was promoted on the official website as a positive example by "Great Love Without Borders".
Su Xing also saw that there was a boy who left without permission halfway through the camp. After returning, he was crushed to the ground by a group of people. "Slap his face hard, pry his mouth with chopsticks, and hit the chair directly at him."
She was terrified and the next day she secretly bought a plane ticket home and reported to the police at the airport that Ju Yuran "engaged in MLM". Because there was no evidence, the police sent Su Xing back to the study camp.
After returning to the study camp, Ju Yuran said that Su Xing had made a mistake and must accept "punishment", took out a 30 cm long ruler, and beat her with Su Xing's father 30 times, all on the buttocks. hurt.
Ju Yuran never shy away from the fact that he "punishes" and even regards it as a publicity stunt. According to the public account of "Great Love Without Borders", the "punishment" of using the ruler is called "drinking soup" because "the ruler is made of bamboo, referred to as" bamboo slices ", hitting the body with a crackling sound, and the soup is The tears shed deep in the soul of the Punisher, jokingly called 'bamboo crackling soup', is the institution's "most characteristic and most shocking spiritual meal."
"Although the law stipulates that children cannot be beaten, but I strongly support the ancestors'" discipline "legacy, which is a family style and family rule." Ju Yuran told the Beijing News reporter that “punishment” is different from beating. They only “punish” children under the age of 18, beating the boy ’s hand or buttocks 30 times and the girl ’s hand or buttocks 20 times at a time. .
"The purpose of 'punishment' is to let children know the bottom line of doing things and not to commit crimes. Many children are convinced after being disciplined," Ju Yuran said.
After accepting the "punishment", Su Xing thought that it would be better to pretend to survive these past few days. She no longer resisted, and toasted Ju Yuran obediently at the dinner table, and also asked her father to hold her arms and pretend to be very intimate. "But the idea in my heart is quite the opposite, just don't want to be beaten again."
The unbridgeable gap
After staying in the study camp for three or four days, Su Xing returned to his hometown in Hubei with his parents. Also brought home was a 30 cm long wooden ring ruler presented by Ju Yuran, with his "Quotations" printed on it: "No concessions in front of principles, no ambiguity in front of feelings."
After this school trip, her mother Li Fang regarded Ju Yuran as a beacon to guide her family. Every day, she would read the "Ju Sao Collection" presented by Ju Yuran, and would also copy and recite, "Ju Sao, bright heart, life can be bright", "Ju Say, the essence of morality is to have others in mind." Not only that, she often feedbacks her reading experience in the WeChat group built by "Great Love Without Borders".
She and her husband traveled all over the world to attend Ju Yuran's "Large Lecture Hall". The first time was 4,800 yuan per person, and then several hundred yuan each time. In the "Large Lecture Hall", Ju Yuran passed on his educational philosophy and talked about "success" cases. Besides family relations, he also talked about various topics such as workplace relations.
During a lecture, Ju Yuran mentioned that "a house with four toilets is unlucky." Li Fang thought that his house had exactly four toilets, and he wondered whether he would sell the house.
Whenever there are problems, Li Fang will say, "Do you want to call and ask Ju Da?" She thinks that Ju Yuran's vision is "poisonous", and she sees the main problem at home with her spoiling children, and The news was very timely every time, "It can make us calm down and give us a direction when we are in a panic."
However, Su Xing felt that instead of bridging the gap with his parents, he became bigger and bigger.
Before, his father hardly used violence against Su Xing, but after returning from the school camp, Su Xing was beaten twice by his father. Su Xing's hand was fractured for the first time. It didn't take long before the plaster was cast, and there was a conflict with his father. The plaster shattered.
Recalling the two conflicts, Li Fang told the Beijing News reporter, "We were too anxious and did not implement the" discipline "in place."
Convinced parents
The 24-year-old Wang Meng's family relationship has also changed after attending the "Great Love Without Borders" study tour.
Her parents no longer gave her living expenses. She moved out of the house and gradually lost contact with her parents. "But Ju Yuran will use this as a means of propaganda. When it comes to his adjustments, the children will go out of the house and become self-reliant," Wang Meng said.
Wang Meng was diagnosed with depression in high school and then dropped out. Last summer, she was taken to a study camp in Inner Mongolia by her parents as a tourist. In the camp, because of his disobedience to discipline, Wang Meng was called "an animal that cannot be disciplined" by Ju Yuran, and he was repeatedly beaten and calfed by a ruler and a wooden stick.
Depression patients Zhang Ting's family also received Ju Yuran's "adjustment".
Zhang Ting ’s mother recalled that someone introduced Ju Yuran and said that he is the most powerful person now. As long as he meets with him, he can gain insight into the other party ’s heart and remove the weeds in the other party ’s heart. "My daughter was in a trough at the time, and I thought it would be great to meet such a person."
In the conversation between Zhang Ting's family and Ju Yuran, Ju Yuran said that he never recognized a psychologist. The psychologist's set is all Western things, that is, to put people in the same seat, and in fact every child is not sick. To corroborate this point of view, he also used himself as an example, saying that he had been diagnosed with a dozen mental illnesses.
"This made my parents particularly convinced him, because my mother never wanted to admit that I was sick, and she was particularly disgusted with the idea of depression." Zhang Ting said, as long as the psychologist was mentioned, Ju Yuran was so angry It is the same as the sensitive point being poked.
In the "Great Love Without Borders" institution, there are staff who have passed the psychological counseling certificate. Ju Yuran will emphasize that it is not allowed to treat children with the same set of psychologists.
At the study camp, Zhang Ting's parents regarded Ju Yuran as a life tutor. Farewell to that day, Zhang Ting's mother cried in front of Teacher Ju. But after leaving the study camp, she and her husband reflected that the study camp did not help them much. "He must have helped some families, but he is not a god."
Zhang Ting's family did not contact Ju Yuran anymore. "In addition to the general effect, our family is indeed not suitable. The fees are too expensive. It is a game for the rich."
In fact, there are many parents like Li Fang who are convinced of Ju Yuran. On the "Great Love Without Borders" public account, many parents call Ju Yuran "an iron man, a knight, a non-human being, a ferry of souls, and a monster sent by heaven to exorcise monsters."
Indelible shadow
But recently, Su Xing and Wang Meng discovered that the "perfect person" in the eyes of this parent had been jailed for MLM.
According to Xinhuanet reports, in September 2007, Liaoning Province notified the top ten MLM cases, which involved Ju Zhiguo, and was sentenced.
In an interview with a Beijing News reporter on May 1, Ju Yuran admitted that he was the "Juzhi State" in the case. "I changed my name because Juzhi has a history like that, and in the process of coaching entrepreneurs, there will also be competition between companies, and many people will attack me with this."
After coming out of prison, Ju Yuran began to do "family education." His original intention was "to see many successful people, the education of children in the Kochi family is very unsatisfactory and unhappy", and his daughter was educated as a teacher, he has a successful education experience and life experience, can be A "Don Quixote-style character" to save these families. "We are a big family, all children are my children, I am their father."
But for Su Xing, the "discipline" of the study tour camp left an indelible shadow in her heart.
In these years, she dreamed that she was beaten by Ju Yuran and her father; she also dreamed that she went to the school where Ju Yuran asked her to go to school. Stupidly read the book.
The symptoms of bipolar disorder have not been relieved. Su Xing is often very excited, and very depressed. His mood changes quickly, he can't eat anything, and he doesn't want to talk.
After returning home, parents occasionally asked Su Xing to meet "Ju Da". Last May, Su Xing saw Ju Yuran once in Wuhan. She was a little scared and called her godmother. At that meeting, Ju Yuran told Su Xing that she wanted her to go to school, and that she had a way to get her a diploma, as long as he was given hundreds of thousands.
After meeting, Su Xing's godmother called Li Fang and said, "You still have to rely on yourself to educate your children and spend so much money asking others to be unreliable." But Li Fang didn't care.
Su Xing felt that everything in the family seemed to be under the control of Ju Yuran, and was dominated by him in every detail. Su Xing's parents' enthusiasm for Ju Yuran frightened Su Xing, "like a cult."
So, Su Xing began to post on the Internet, telling about his experience in the school camp. Many children have followed up. Most of them have depression and other mental illnesses. They joined the study camp under the coaxing of their parents. They were asked to cut off their drugs. They were subjected to different levels of violence, such as verbal abuse, punishment, and slapping.
Su Xing, Wang Meng and others built rights groups. They collected the recordings and videos of Ju Yuran's beatings in the study camp and reported them online.
15-year-old Gao Fan also joined. He stayed at home because he was addicted to games, and his parents took him to Yancheng School Camp this year. In the early hours of May 1st, while his father was asleep, Gao Fan secretly ran out of the bathroom window of the school camp and called the police. The police finished the transcript, because Gao Fan was a minor, so his parents took him back.
On the afternoon of May 6, the Yandong police station in Yancheng City told the Beijing News that a minor alarm was received on May 2nd, saying that "Great Love Without Borders" is a "MLM organization" and the case has been investigated.
The injured children also questioned the qualifications for running a school with "Great Love Without Borders". On May 6, a staff member of the Education Bureau of Tinghu District, Yancheng City responded to the reporter from the Beijing News that judging from the scope of "Great Love Without Borders", it does not belong to the teaching of subjects such as Chinese and mathematics, and is not under the jurisdiction of the Education Bureau Internally, it only needs to be approved by the market supervision department to operate.
At present, the "Great Love Without Borders" Yancheng study camp has been concluded in advance. A screenshot sent by Gao Fan shows that in the Jiangxi group of "Great Love Without Borders", a staff member said: "We are now entering a collective silence, while temporarily not accepting new family consultations."
After coming out from the police station, at the strong request of Gao Fan, his parents decided to take him back to his hometown in Jiangxi.
Before leaving the study camp, he was asked to write an "information note", admitting that the alarm was a defamation of Ju Yuran and a slander of all members. At the end of the "Fact Sheet", Gao Fan made a commitment: "No longer slander the teacher and slander all members, treat parents correctly, go to school properly, eat and sleep on time, do your own thing."
(Except for Ju Yuran, the interviewees in this article are all pseudonyms.)
Beijing News reporter Zhou Xiaoqi intern Kong Ningjing