roadtripper48039

I was a patient here for about 2 years it was one of the scariest facilities I was in I was maybe 10 years old til I was 12 they would lock me and other children in a little cubby hole in the basement for hours at a time with no food or water. We would get strapped to beds for hours and get high doses of medication and walk around like zombies it was horrible. I’m now a mental health counselor in a state mental health facility in order to protect patients from mental and physical abuse and I love what I do today and love the woman I have become, but it took years of therapy to get over the years of abuse I endured in these facilities because this was not the only facility that was like this Western State Hospital was just as horrific I was a ward of the state at a young age so they put me where ever they could so I grew up in state institutions it was terrible but it made me into the amazing caring woman that I am today but no one should have to endure that type of abuse ever.