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(I feel like part of me is still there)
After leaving the hospital I had nightmares for about a week and a half. Full on nightmares. I found myself drifting to the terrors I experienced there whenever I wasn't focusing on anything. The staff was the worst part. God help you if you went in there because bullying made you hurt yourself. The staff, are the biggest bullies on the earth. They treat you like garbage with no exaggeration. They looked at you as if you were scum. In the teen unit, everyone from a kid that stabbed his aunt (true story) and one who robbed a drug store (true story) and who cut themselves (my story) where crammed in to one unit. And the kids who were mean and rude and bullies, the staff did nothing, sometimes even encouraged it.
"Welcome to hell"
The thought of going back makes me scared to death. I speak for everyone in the place when I say it's worse than anything a kid should go through.
Very welcoming and compatent staff. Food was pretty good. The only thing I didn't care for was that starting on the second night, they brought a complete stranger to my room. Didn't sleep well that night as I had no idea who this person was! Turned out to be a decent person, thank you God.. slept much better the rest of the time. Over all a good experience! I would recommend to friends.
So I wrote a review for this place a few months ago in the summer of 2017 under a different account. But I feel like I didn't say enough. I'm revisiting this trauma to ward off anyone seeking help. I was there for self harm in the teen unit.
(when a new person 'joined')
I'm only giving this place one star because the nurses in my unit were friendly and helped me get out faster, other than that, this place is practically prison. I was forced here against my will, apparently to them I was suicidal even though I wasn't and spent two and a half days and two nights in a very traumatizing setting. They take all of your belongings with you except the clothes on your back until you are forced to do a strip search in front of doctors. There is hardly any therapy, you meet with a psychiatrist for a few minutes and they prescribe you medication, no one else really talks to you and the group therapy you're forced to attend is also a joke. Your room is like a jail cell that you share with one other person, hard wood beds, a fogged up window so you can't see out of it, you must go to bed at 10:00 pm every night and you're awoken every 20 or so minutes by nurses coming into your room, then you're awoken again in the middle of the night to have your vitals taken. You have a strict schedule and can't do anything outside of it, there's only two phones in the common room and they're taken up practically 24/7 so good luck trying to find time to call your loved ones. Your activities are limited to coloring, doing puzzles, writing in a notebook and watching whatever they have on TV until your meals and group therapy sessions, then you go to bed and repeat the next morning. I was given one hospital gown and a pair of socks to change into and that was all I had for nearly 3 days; I was nauseous and vomiting all over myself for the first day and asked for something to help with the nausea and received nothing. I had to practically beg the doctors to let me out because I had to attend work and couldn't miss more days and they just kept telling me "The psychiatrist decides on when you leave". I finally got to leave on a Wednesday afternoon after being admitted that Monday and I will tell you that being at this hospital was one of the most traumatic experiences of my entire life AND they charge $800 per night for you to basically receive no treatment, no medication (at least I received nothing) and basically no help, they charge you over $2,000 to sit and stare at a wall. This hospital might be fine for someone who has nowhere else to go and suffer from deep, dark mental problems but this is NOT the place for someone who is just feeling a little depressed and needs counseling, they will treat you like an animal. After being here, I can't even imagine anything else as equally terrifying, it really made me lose all trust in people and not ever want to seek treatment for mental health or therapy ever again for fear that I'll be sent back here, or to a hospital even worse. Terrible, terrible place.
Totally disgusting and horrible place to be when someone simply asks for help with their own issues. Patients DO NOT receive close to any care from the doctors or nurses. I speak from personal experience.. I saw the doctor 2 times in total during my few day mandatory stay; the nurses and techs had little to no compassion to the children and teenagers by treating them like absolute garbage. Overall a total chaotic place to be when all you want is help....
The sayings we had about the place stand true even now.
Wonderful hospital. I found real help there that I definitely needed. They staff was great and very caring (most of them). Two of the nurses Bob and Carlos went above and beyond when I was feeling the worst. Best hospital I have found since living in FL.
"No one ever really leaves The Unit"
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