Do NOT take a loved one here! I wouldn't even put my worst enemy in this dump. This is everything that happened just in my 2-day stay at Timberlawn:\r
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1. They kept all the men and women in the same wing and did not lock the patient rooms at night, which made me feel unsafe being a 20-year-old petite woman.\r
2. They would wait until you were sleeping after taking your nightly medicine (they doped me up with strong antipsychosis meds, although I was there solely for depression) to wake you up and ask you questions about treatments you had to consent to. Clearly they wanted you to be as incoherent as possible when they did this.\r
3. A woman wanted to take a shower and politely asked a nurse for a hairbrush to use when she was done. The nurse said he would pick one up on his way back from the lower wing, but never did after her asking 4 times in 5-6 hours. \r
4. I was taken into the nurse's office because they wanted to draw my blood. Only after they had tied off the tourniquet did they verify who I was and realized I was the wrong patient.\r
5. One young guy had stitches from where he had cut his wrists, and when a stitch popped open and he started bleeding, the nurses told him that it would stop eventually.\r
6. They fed you whenever they felt like microwaving the frozen food.\r
7. The nurses controlled the television and left it on Fox News, which was more depressing in my opinion. They wouldn't change the channel, even when we unanimously agreed that we wanted to watch something else.\r
8. In a private session, my ""doctor"" rudely told me that I was just being an adolescent and didn't know how to deal with life. Only when I asked to be discharged did she backtrack and say she thought I was really suffering from depression and she wanted to up my dosage (so I would be too doped up to argue!).\r
9. I checked myself in hoping that I would really get some help, but they had no activities for you to engage in, so you just took medicine, ate breakfast, watched Fox News, ate lunch, watched more news, took medicine, ate dinner, and watched news until you fell asleep. Surprisingly they had no ""lights out"", so many of us stayed up til 1-2am talking and making our own therapy sessions. \r
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I cannot stress enough just how horrible this place is! Please please please do not go here!
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