BEWARE if you go there asking for help with a mental health issue you will be treated like a criminal. You will be guarded by security and they don't give you a call light (no cords allowed) so God forbid you need to pee. They order you back into the room when you try to get help for such things. Basically everything they can do to take away your dignity they will. I was robbed and assaulted (physically not sexually) 8 yrs ago and i would rather repeat that experience over going to Meriter for help. Add to that they lie to outside treatment team about offering you help when in reality they turn you away telling you they can't help. It was one of the most frustrating and degrading things I have ever experienced. Top off the criminal like treatment with leaving unable to get help and finding a random vial of meditaction in the bucket where they put my belongings ( way to go no help with suicidal thoughts and giving random meds to help them out!! I assume if fell out of a pocket into the bin) it was absolutely the opposite of what should be done and is decades behind what should be happening in 2016. They could learn a lot from the UW.