1/5 Kris W. 3 years ago on Google
Try
literally
anything
else
before
admitting
yourself
or
a
loved
one
here.
This
is
not
a
hospital.
You
will
not
come
out
better.
I
have
far
more
trauma
from
my
experiences
here
than
I
do
from
what
I
came
to
get
help
for.
The
only
help
or
support
I
received
was
from
other
patients,
not
from
any
of
the
staff.
I
won't
say
everyone
who
works
here
is
a
monster,
because
that’s
far
from
true.
(I
remember
a
very
kind
man
in
the
dining
hall
who
talked
to
patients
like
they
were
guests
at
a
fancy
restaurant.
I
think
he
was
trying
to
treat
the
people
he
encountered
with
the
respect
he
knew
they
wouldn’t
see
anywhere
else.)
However,
the
staff
members
with
competence
or
compassion
can’t
do
much
because
they
don’t
have
the
resources
they
need
to
do
their
work
properly.
It
took
literal
days
of
begging
to
be
allowed
medicine
for
my
severe
chronic
pain.
The
ladies
wanted
to
help
but
didn’t
even
have
time
to
fill
out
the
paperwork
to
give
me
Tylenol.
These
employees
are
also
victims
of
this
system’s
abuse.
I
was
stripped
and
given
clothes
many,
many
sizes
too
large
that
I
had
actively
hold
up
every
moment.
I
spent
my
first
day
without
use
of
my
hands
to
avoid
exposing
myself.
I
may
as
well
have
been
naked
and
this
severely
exacerbated
my
sexual
trauma.
I
was
angrily
berated
and
humiliated
for
crying
on
the
phone
when
I
couldn’t
sleep
in
the
65-degree
rooms
with
a
single
thin
bedsheet.
I
was
hungry,
cold,
and
in
constant
fear
the
entire
stay.
The
person
who
“diagnosed”
me
did
so
before
even
talking
to
me
once.
I’m
not
a
doctor,
but
I’m
reasonably
sure
that’s
not
how
it’s
supposed
to
work.
“Doctors”
will
angrily
point
at
you
and
bark
orders
when
it’s
your
turn
to
see
them.
They
won’t
bother
to
keep
track
of
which
patient
you
are
when
they
talk
to
you.
One
woman
kept
insisting
over
numerous
meetings
that
I
was
denying
an
alcohol
problem.
I
had
no
idea
what
she
was
talking
about
until
she
called
me
by
the
wrong
name.
I
should
not
have
to
explain
to
mental
health
professionals
what
the
word
“transgender”
means.
That
is
beyond
pathetic.
They
will
repeatedly
threaten
to
sue
you
for
leaving
when
your
sentence
is
up.
They
do
this
to
every
prisoner
with
insurance.
These
are
empty
threats.
They
prescribed
and
force-fed
a
medication
that
I
told
them
numerous
times
makes
me
horribly
sick.
There
are
dozens
of
antidepressants
on
the
market
that
would
have
been
appropriate,
and
they
wouldn’t
consider
literally
any
of
them
because
they
do
not
care
if
you
live
or
die
as
long
as
you
don’t
die
on
their
property.
They
literally
poisoned
me
because
there
was
profit
to
be
made
in
forcing
the
pills
they
wanted
to
sell.
I
had
to
immediately
see
my
real
doctor
after
release
to
help
me
recover
from
it.
There
is
no
treatment
here.
Your
days
will
be
spent
staring
at
the
wall,
watching
TV,
or
reading
a
single
Bible
on
the
shelf.
To
their
credit
they
did
allow
my
sweet
mother
to
leave
me
a
box
of
puzzle
books
and
coloring
supplies.
I
shared
it
with
the
rest
of
the
ward
and
everyone
took
great
comfort
from
them.
Being
imprisoned
here
will
cost
you
or
your
insurance
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars,
and
it
would
have
cost
them
less
than
five
dollars
per
ward
to
have
these
items.
None
of
my
experiences
are
unique.
When
I
told
my
psychiatrist
where
I
got
sent,
he
was
horrified.
He
says
he’s
shocked
this
place
is
still
operating
and
always
warns
his
patients
looking
for
inpatient
care
to
avoid
it
like
the
plague.
A
friend
who’s
a
social
worker
in
Columbus
works
for
an
agency
that
refuses
to
refer
any
of
their
clients
here.
I
included
discharge
paperwork
to
prove
I
was
here,
just
to
cover
my
bases.
I
survived
a
mental
health
crisis
despite
this
place,
not
because
of
it.
I
was
robbed
of
any
basic
dignity.
Several
years
have
passed,
and
I
still
don’t
know
if
I’ll
ever
really
feel
human
again.
I
hope
these
warnings
help
somebody
and
I
wish
I’d
shared
them
sooner.
The
nightmares
never
stop.
I
regret
not
pursuing
legal
action,
but
I
survived
the
experience
by
doing
the
best
I
could
to
forget
it.
Forgetting
hasn’t
worked
very
well.
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