Category: | Mental Health Clinic |
Address: | 4175 W 20th Ave, Hialeah, FL 33012, USA |
Phone: | +1 305-825-0300 |
Site: | citrushealth.org |
Rating: | 2.3 |
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001rich100
I remember being admitted to this place and I had horrible and violating experiences. When I was first admitted I was admitted in the afternoon where they had mandatory nap time -at one point before I fell into deep sleep I felt a bright white flash that startled me and thought nothing of it. After being woken up I was forced to go "outside" -more like a walled off section of the outdoors where half a basketball court was the extension of this "outdoors". Everyone was forced to play basketball and a male security personal was stationed by the only the entrance. I remember the security man being very standoffish to me or any other male patient on the court, but the girl patients would have no problem approaching him and conversing. I even was told by the security that if I want to get out of this place youd have to play your part and pretend youre having a good time, only then would you be able to leave this place quickly. I, of course, listened and pretended I was interested in playing basketball, even though I never wanted to in the first place. Shortly after me tossing a few balls it was time to go back in. The security man was met with another male security who were eyeing their cellphones and laughing. As I approached the entrance I glanced at their phones to see what was so funny -and behold, its me...sleeping. That white flash I was startled by when I attempted to fall asleep earlier was a picture being taken of me. I felt violated. I couldnt say anything about it, seeing how it was my goal to leave this place. I felt embarrassed. Several nights in they changed my sleep location with no explanation and I didnt bother to ask why. Fellow veteran patients have previously told me that they (the staff) dont like to be asked to explain anything so keep your mouth shut and just do what they say. In the mornings they had us sit in the main room where females were separated by males with one small box TV to entertain us until the next scheduled event. Security personals would monitor us but were infrequent keeping post in the main room as they were assigned. So thats when everyone would displace themselves and talk to each other carefully. Girls and guys would flirt with each other and some stayed by themselves, like me. There was a patient named Barbara who was a frequent patient, she was so sweet and kind and it baffled me why she was even here. She revealed to me that her parents often neglected her and dropped her off occasionally because they didnt want to deal with her, and it wasnt only after being admitted several times that she eventually started acting out and having suicidal thoughts -in effect validating the admission. I was angry for her but she was at peace, she was use to it. Another patient revealed she would take her own life if she had the chance because her dad beats her mom and there was nothing she could do. There was one day while I was on the designated phone line for courtesy calls with my mom when I heard an argument broke out between a security and a patient where the security pushed the patient. The patient yelled at the security then two security personals approached the patient to restrain him, only for him to resist and scream. I had to quickly hang up and report back to the main room that was only five feet away to stay away from the incident. A nurse quickly rushed with a syringe and injected the patient to subdue him. The patient was dragged into his room and restraints where placed on him. I would hear other patients chatter inside the main room on how this place felt like a jail, and after witnessing this incident I couldnt disagree. I only saw my "doctor" twice since Ive been admitted and I felt there was never a real need to assert my condition, I felt abandoned, so every night during bed time I would enter deep thought and evaluate myself. I eventually figured out my situation was self-manageable, that in time I would outgrow my situation -which I did, no thanks to this place. This place did not help at all.
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Allison Hanson
I cant even begin to tell you how HORRIBLE this place is. Ive been admitted 3-4 times for depression and all they did was give me medication. While I stayed there, the employees were VERY rude not only to me but most of the other adolescents. One boy was there for depression and at lunch time they only gave him one meal and told him "he doesnt need any more food." I also remember the main guy there told one of the girls that her pants were too tight and that she fills them out nice, this girl was 15. In the classroom I had my hair pulled by one of the patients and I looked out the window so the employee would know to stop him but instead she pulled ME out of the room and sat me in the corner for 2 hours. I couldnt sleep at night and was having an anxiety attack (hard to breathe, tightness in chest, felt dehydrated) and when I got up to tell one of the employees He was sleeping, blocking the door. I hate waking people up but I felt like I had to so I did. He seemed mad and told me to go get some water and go back to sleep. I only got one hour of sleep and they woke me up and told me they were going to take my blood (which they already did last time I was admitted.) I told the man that I might get dizzy afterwards and need help getting back to my room and he told me "okay." He took blood then told me to go in Spanish (I dont speak Spanish) I had to walk back to my room by myself and almost fainted. The girls that were in the room with me panicked because I fell next to my bed. After I was taken out of this horrible place I still had to go back for appointments with a new medication manager and he didnt ask how the medicine was making me feel, if I was experiencing side effects, etc. he just prescribed my medication and sent me out and was VERY rude about it and every appointment got shorter and shorter. I stopped going about a year ago and stopped taking the medicine they had me on for 5 years and i feel so much better to be honest. While on all the different medications they were giving me I experienced worsening depression, extreme weight loss, lack of appetite, Insomnia, suicidal thoughts, hot flashes, fainted more than 5 times & lack of energy, when I would tell the people who managed my medication they told me that it wasnt the medication. Try and tell me that after im completely off the pills and ive never felt better. Ive had 2 therapist tell me to sue Citrus but im still thinking about whether I should or not. Overall, my point is that nobody in Citrus actually cares or likes their job, they dont want to help nor will they be nice or professional. Miami children is SO much better, I live closer to citrus but Miami childrens is worth the trip. This place should honestly be closed down.
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Solrac Otaeb
I keep hearing staff talking about evidence based treatment. I am pretty sure they mean treatment that is based on scientific research. Yet I see no evidence that what treatment they are doing is based on any scientific evidence at all.
Although I might not be in mental health I do know a thing or two and have background in other science. They are taking too many shots in the dark. I could only wish that they treatment me as a guinea pig. At least they would be doing some true science. Rather than the trash guessing they are doing to people and get pay for it.
In fact, I do not think any of these people have any idea of what science is about. Much less science based in psychology. They pay a lot of lip service to science. But I think they are poorly equipped to implement any thing near to science based treatment. They just do not know dilly squat about it.
They do not seem to understand they can harm people by doing treatment that is based solely on hunches, guessing and "educational intuition"
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