Their philosphy for treatment is to punish and to disapline and medicate, medicate, medicate. Like in the nursing homes where the old people sit around and just stare like zombies. That way they dont cause any trouble. There is not a medical doctor at facility and does come by once a week to service all the patient and rotates between all of us making it once a month ro longer to see him. Some nurse lady makes the call on what medication she want you to be on but everyone better be on medication. This is a behavior modification management rehab . Many of the patients are nice folks but are treated like we were mentally retarded instead of having an injury. Treated to feel less then a person kind of like stripping you down to non entity like they do in prison. And an exercise is to write on a piece of paper over over again "I AM BRAIN INJURED" . The other word I heard on a daily basis is risk for elopement. What in the heck does that mean I am an adult and not a prisoner in boot camp learning a lesson. Most of the people who work with the patients in the house are very young and have too much responsiblitiy . Constantly bedgering someone for misbehaving. We have a brain injury and are not juveniles delinquents.
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