Fairfax Behavioral Health in Kirkland suspends adolescent inpatient services
It has been 10 days since Fairfax Behavioral Health suspended their adolescent services. One parent says closing the services is unnerving.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/fairfax-behavioral-health-suspends-adolescent-services/281-6eebd74f-e340-4833-b053-e0e9b41d8f1a
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Time to fund Research to cure/prevent Mental Illness.
So sad.
Of course they do, why serve adolescents when politicians squander money.
this place is a god send. I’ve seen first hand how amazing their staff is and how much they help the community.
We wouldn't have this issue with the adult mentally ill, if we pay taxes to catch it all early in life.
WHY AREN'T THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL FUNDS BEING APPLIED TO FUND THIS??? REPUBLUCAN TYRANNY
In the adult unit I was horribly mistreated there by staff and patients after being the target of false accusations by another patient. I was in full crisis and after being there a couple of years ago and having that experience my life has only gotten worse. I wish I could have gotten the help and stability there that I needed because I only still desperately need it. I wish it could be made right the way I was treated but I'm incapable of living now let alone defending my rights.
Oh Great. With the world going to hell in a hand basket, a clinic that treats those who are suffering from mental illness is closed.
Seattle Counseling Services also shut down a few weeks ago leaving thousands of patients without care, especially the wide glbt+ youth net they cast.
Mental health services are greatly underfunded.
Nobody likes it there. It's infamous for abuse.
Enabling parents to hospitalize their child indefinitely without due process has serious life long consequences. It’s as unfair as allowing parents to place their child in juvenile detention without an arrest or adjudication. If the child is a threat to the community there is police involvement and judicial oversight. Allowing parents play cop, judge and jury with nothing more than an evaluation referral does way more harm than good and is not a service that ought to be offered. The reason this place maintains a school is assist in graduating patients with kids of the same age despite not progressing past the grade they were in before admission. Free appropriate public education is a constitutional right.
Holy crap! A mother electively hospitalized her son for 5 fricking years? Disgusting! Confining someone to a psych hospital against their will is the responsibility of a judge to decide, not the mother.
I was admitted into Fairfax at age 13 I was raped by two older boys one 18 one 16 and I attempted suicide my mother took me in I voluntarily agreed because I was scared of how I was feeling upon arrival things seemed normal but once I said goodbye to my mom and went back I was immediately drugged I thought they were taking blood but somehow ended up on the other side of a long hallway I can’t remember much if anything from my stay and that concerns me it’s like a month long chunk of my memory I can’t remember just little flashes of things like my two roommates I have tried really had to remember more j just can’t I’m convinced they kept me sedated or semi sedated I wasn’t out of control behavior wise 😢
I was in the adult unit and it was horrible. Forced to take drugs I was bot prescribed. Had to stay in a room with a girl who was violent and stabbed herself in the head like 30 times. I begged to be moved to a new room and they said No. she would crap herself and rub her hands in it so they would have to come drag her to the shower while she screamed. They treated you like prisoners. Shut this whole place down.