1 /5 Time&TimeAgain: Absolutely disgusted with this place and it is an absolute useless waste of precious time, effort, and energy. All they do is give people drugs and send them on their way. They are not interested is helping those with mental health issues. They are not there to prevent someone from making drastic decisions when in a distraught state of mind. I visited this disgrace of a clinc recently because I am personally having mental health issues and am to the point of not being able to be left alone with myself, I do not have the funds available at the moment for some fancy expensive counselor but I am trying with every thing I have left inside me to hold on to life and find help. They told me they could not help me and sent me away with a bunch of papers for counselors all hours away from me. That isnt helpful. I like many others do not have the financial ability to drive hours away for help when I need it most. It is hard enough to just get up and brush my hair everyday.
I left with the overwhelming feeling of hopelessness and cried my heart out because I feel everywhere Ive looked, Ive been turned away. This was where I was recommend to go buy offices that dont have inexpensive services and services I cant afford, because they turned me away aswell.
Im not looking for medication to numb my body, Im looking for help. According to their website and brochures, and posters blasted all over their walls, help is what they offer. But after driving an hour and sitting for another hour or so, when I was finally able to speak with them face to face, that is in fact a lie. Do not go here hoping to find help, do not waste what precious energy you have left while being in a distraught mental state hoping for a helping hand, a listening ear or any kind of compassion for mental health. You will be pushed through like youre just another check mark on a tally board of people whom pass through here.
You will be met with rejection here, you will be told, "we can not help you unless youre schizophrenic and we only give out medication." Another part of our failed system in society.
I wonder how many have left here feeling as hopeless as I did because it was basically a last resort, or maybe an only resort for some. I wonder how many lives were lost due to the negligence of this place and basically telling people "we just offer medication" or "we only help with basic depression or schizophrenia". There are so many suffering with all forms of mental illnesses that cause depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide and self harm. Not just schizophrenia. They dont always have, money or the resources to for $200 sessions with some fancy therapist. Yet they too need help, they too need someone to recognize them, to see them to help them.
Shame on this establishment, shame on their employees for treating people the way they do, shame on them for lying about their services, shame for casting people away and on them and the system for failing to treat people as human beings and not just another checklist to get through before lunch.
