First things first . If a loved one is calling you from this sadistic Hell-Hole saying please get me out of here, do it. This place IS Abusive. My ""Crime"" was to get sick from drinking vodka and needed detox, That is how I became imprisoned at ""Fort Lauderdale Hospital"". My stay started with the door locked behind me, I realized this when I went to go out for a smoke so I could focus on the intake paperwork... TO Late I was to be anouther victom of these sick people who run this place. Your intake includes a ""BODY CHECK"" by this rubber glove pervert who gets off on his power. He tells me ""SQUAT AND COUGH"" I attempt to refuse such discusting treatment and am told to comply or things ""could get rough"" so its NAKED and SQUAT AND COUGH.\r
The next day I am accused of mental illness, coerced medication is part of the program. 800mg seraquel, trileptal (some ""mood stablizer"" and haldol 20 mg. ""Mouth Checks"" Thats for patients who dont know or are afraid to refuse toxic amounts of CHEMICAL RESTRAINTS. \r
I will never forget at dinner when this young woman refused an ""order"" to sit down and said ""no I want a salad, I didnt get a salad"" was forcible grabbed and removed. I will never forget her screams of terror as she is dragged to the elevator and then pinned in the back of the elevator forarm across the chest by this sick sadistic control freak. No female actor in any horror movie could replicate a real life terror screams like I heard in real life as this young woman was assaulted. \r
As for me ""refusal to take meds is a symtom of my illness"" DSM IV Whats my illness? intellegence? compassion for others? Alcoholism, ya. \r
Do not send your loved one to this place !
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