Shut Down Inland northwest behavioral health


Shut Down Inland northwest behavioral health
The Issue
This mental health facility is an awful place to send people. My boyfriend went to this place because of their mental state.This is the story he sent me: "You get into the hospital for whatever reason and do your paperwork. You sign the contracts and the staff talk about how you will do school work, parents will be contacted about treatment, and that you will do groups and stuff. They take you into a small room after your parent(s) leave so you can change into scrubs and take your clothes away. You are forced to change in front of staff and if you said you did drugs they will make you squat and cough while they stare at your privates to make sure you're not smuggling anything. It didn't say that in the contract. There was no way to get around it either. After you get forced to change you get put in a room and ya'll act like nothing happened. You start your day by getting dry biscuits with funny looking eggs for breakfast every morning. you get toast some days, if your lucky. Food was always odd looking and tasting. They'd throw you in the Noisy Activity Room (NAR) and play a movie to get rid of us. Every morning you'd talk to Dr. Douchebag (the patients called him that for obvious reasons) and he'd ask you everyday if you wanted to change your meds and if you didn't want new/more meds he'd say we should just go home, he didn't know why we were here because the meds was our treatment (smh), and that we were a waist of time. They would send kids home to their abusive parents after they said they were going to kill themselves because they said they didn't want more meds. Every day at the groups we would learn different mental disorders and it would trigger a lot of people. A couple of people had tourettes and when they'd tic in group the staff would tell us to go sit in the hall if we couldn't control them. They'd also make rude comments about the tics and the patients just because it was different! there is no structure there it's just a bounce house for mentally unstable teens! The rules there were just mild suggestions. Patients would make out, strip, make racist comments, talk about suicide, self harm, and plan to kill staff members and they did nothing about it! A girl self harmed in front of the staff and they just turned their back on her as she was talking about killing herself. A patient overdosed and they offered her some anxiety meds. I had to call my mom on my 3rd or 4th day to tell them to go pick me up. The staff was refusing to let my mom come get me and threatened to ban her from the hospital. I eventually got out but still."
This is awful and we need to SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN. go look at the google reviews too, almost every one star review is like this story of my boyfriend. it isnt doing anything but making these poor people worse!

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The Issue
This mental health facility is an awful place to send people. My boyfriend went to this place because of their mental state.This is the story he sent me: "You get into the hospital for whatever reason and do your paperwork. You sign the contracts and the staff talk about how you will do school work, parents will be contacted about treatment, and that you will do groups and stuff. They take you into a small room after your parent(s) leave so you can change into scrubs and take your clothes away. You are forced to change in front of staff and if you said you did drugs they will make you squat and cough while they stare at your privates to make sure you're not smuggling anything. It didn't say that in the contract. There was no way to get around it either. After you get forced to change you get put in a room and ya'll act like nothing happened. You start your day by getting dry biscuits with funny looking eggs for breakfast every morning. you get toast some days, if your lucky. Food was always odd looking and tasting. They'd throw you in the Noisy Activity Room (NAR) and play a movie to get rid of us. Every morning you'd talk to Dr. Douchebag (the patients called him that for obvious reasons) and he'd ask you everyday if you wanted to change your meds and if you didn't want new/more meds he'd say we should just go home, he didn't know why we were here because the meds was our treatment (smh), and that we were a waist of time. They would send kids home to their abusive parents after they said they were going to kill themselves because they said they didn't want more meds. Every day at the groups we would learn different mental disorders and it would trigger a lot of people. A couple of people had tourettes and when they'd tic in group the staff would tell us to go sit in the hall if we couldn't control them. They'd also make rude comments about the tics and the patients just because it was different! there is no structure there it's just a bounce house for mentally unstable teens! The rules there were just mild suggestions. Patients would make out, strip, make racist comments, talk about suicide, self harm, and plan to kill staff members and they did nothing about it! A girl self harmed in front of the staff and they just turned their back on her as she was talking about killing herself. A patient overdosed and they offered her some anxiety meds. I had to call my mom on my 3rd or 4th day to tell them to go pick me up. The staff was refusing to let my mom come get me and threatened to ban her from the hospital. I eventually got out but still."
This is awful and we need to SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN. go look at the google reviews too, almost every one star review is like this story of my boyfriend. it isnt doing anything but making these poor people worse!

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Petition created on March 21, 2023
