My stay in IMH has been nothing but traumatising. I have seen physical abuse and verbal abuse of patients in IMH. I was also a recepient of physical and mental abuse in IMH. It is highly ironic how IMH insists that they care about their patients yet they are not providing the proper treatment to patients. They are denied of therapy and they only take medication. In a daily life of a patient in IMH, the doctors only check up on you for 5 minutes and the rest of the day is just you idling around. With such idling around and doing nothing, being under the 'care' of the nurses, definitely they are not going to recover at all. They are going to overthink and they are not going to get better in terms of their mental health. I have seen a patient who was restrained for three days and she could not bathe. She was denied of bathing. She has not seen her parents for more than two months. She has been facing suicidal thoughts and has not received any form of therapy. Is this how IMH works just to keep the patients in there for as long as possible? The nurses ignored me when I needed them. When I had a fever and was locked up in an isolation room in the psychiatric ward for teenagers, when I could not breathe properly, I looked at the window of the interior in the ward and told the nurse that I could not breathe. However, she told me to shut up and sleep. How do I sleep if I am not feeling well and I was so breathless? When I needed to go to the toilet and when I was done, I fell down because I was feeling weak. The nurse grabbed my arm so hard until I cried and I have a little scratch on my arm. 

In my time in IMH (length of stay was 3 days), I was transferred from the teenage psychiatric ward to the isolation ward because of a fever. They did this out of covid precautions. They nurses were nothing but cruel to me. When I wanted to call my parents, they played mind games and said that they would allow me to call them but they did not give me the phone in the end. They muted my call button so that I could not ask the nurses to help me with anything. There was a window in the isolation room that allowed me to see the nurses moving around but when they ignored my call button multiple times, I resorted to signalling the nurses. However, they put up a giant curtain covering my entire window so that I could not signal the nurses anymore. They even told me to shut up. When one of the nurses heard my banging on the window pane, she asked what I wanted. I definitely was frustrated with the way they treated me. When I told her that I wanted to speak to my parents, she used the blue curtain to shut me out. It took me five hours to see the psychiatrist just to discharge me. It was a long wait.

I appeal to everyone to see the atrocities of IMH and I sincerely hope that through this petition, the patients will receive better care for their mental health. I have had a traumatising episode there. I will never go back again. I sincerely appeal to all of you just to make a change, even one signature just to change this system in Singapore, that Singapore needs to change the way they give mental health care to people.