Garner mental health facility ‘just terrifying’ says NC teen
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A national report by disability rights organizations found widespread neglect and abuse at for-profit residential psychiatric facilities. “It was just a horrible place,” Quinn Wilson, now 13, said about his experience at Strategic Behavioral Health in Garner at age 10, his voice trembling. “It was just terrifying.”
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9 Comments
So he was literally scared straight, if you will…wow!
I work in a town that has a Strategic hospital. I worked there for 2 days. Quit and never looked back. I wouldn’t send my worst enemy there.
I worked at one of their facilities….. I will tell you this child is telling the truth. Absolutely horrific!!!!
Thank You for sharing your story. Sometimes staff at these places have more problems than the clients. It's terrible the way the bad treatment in these facilities doesn't get the attention in the news that it deserves .
I went to the one in Gardner and it was crazy. There was kids beating other kids half to death
I need someone who can talk to me, I have a child at one of these NC facilities that is blaming my child for their lack of care.
the story is no longer there
I went to the one in Garner in 2018. It was horrible… I was supposed to get special food (because they fed us slop) and they refused to comply, and held me longer because I couldn’t eat their food. The treatment we had was horrible, the staff would talk badly/down on us where we could hear them. They lied about the medications I was on. I’m so glad this place was shut down.
I went to this facility in 2014 I had such a horrible time this place caused me to have anxiety and depression Iv delt with so much pain Iv seen so many horrible things this kid is not lying about anything the fight clubs were real the staff would use out side food and stuff to use as a bribe to get kids to fight in the day room I miss my friends that I met there but that place will always live in my head