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| - I went in for Inpatient for help with depression voluntarily, what I did not expect was the jail-like atmosphere. If they try to send you to Adult 5 level DO NOT GO!!! There is NO HELP, staff does bare minimal and just "goes through the motion" and does not address any issues patients have and just hand you medication as the answer. The nurses tried to give me medication and when I refused they tried to tell me it was prescribed by the dr., who I had never met! Let alone it was a highly addictive medication and no one had explained to me why I was being prescribed to take it. And to add to horror a fight broke out between two patients in the first 5 min I was there and staff did nothing to resolve it besides putting one person in the "non-padded room" without addressing why the two were in conflict. Making it the nurses entertainment for the night. Not wanting to give up hope and get help I asked to be discharged or to move to another unit. The next day I was moved to detox unit, where the only thing that was consistent were the 6am vital checks, snack breaks and smoke breaks. There were hardly any interactions with the nurses and doctors with the patients. On the board the nurses write a full day filled with group therapy, meals, activities, etc., and the only thing that was really offered were the meals. After being there for two days I felt worse than when I had gone in. So by the third day to save my sanity and what little hope I had left, I DEMANDED to be discharged. To add insult to injury when I got the medical bill for 5,000 for three days in hell it made me sick to my stomach. Any advice I can give is that staff does not care, it's dirty, and don't take medication without questioning....the pluses are free cable and food is descent. Be ready for a 5 hr wait to get in and out of all the nurses only two treated me like a real person.
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