Bakersfield Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

very unprofessional, when i first got there, the people had kept getting confused about my paperwork, asking me the same questions and switching out the staff every 5 seconds to watch me while just filling out paperwork. i also told them my crocs where dirty and if we could clean them and they said they would but put them in my room anyways in a brown bag. theres was a bed bug scare and they cleaned out my room but took my belongings (papers and crocs in the bag) out of the room without my knowlage. they also lost all my stuff my mother brought during visitation, they where supposed to look through it and give it to me but i never got it and when i left they gave me clothes last minute since they where washing my clothes, they never got to washing them and gave me some extra scrubs to get me out of the hospital gown. when i finally got my stuff i was missing two outfits, a plushie, my crocs, and my piercings they made me take out. they called and couldnt find them. very unorganized and unprofessional.

The Groups Are Good. But No Money Put In The Hospital And The Employees. The Heater's Are Running In The Hot Weather Conditions. Which Is Very Dangerous To Patients And Employees. Not A Place To Go Unless It's Cold Outside.

This was the most traumatic experience of my entire life. I was sent to this hospital four hours from my home when I had no intention of hurting myself leaving more mentally ill than I have ever been in my life. They told me nothing on the first day and I got put in a room with a bed so thin you can feel the bed frame beneath it. I asked for extra clothes and they had none to give us. They were completely understaffed and didn t have enough resources to keep this place open. I was admitted on a 72 hour hold and with no reasoning I was told that my dad asked them to hold me longer. Neither of my parents had even been contacted by the hospital and only I had called them at all. Most of the start is disrespectful and unprofessional. In a place with so many fragile children they need staff who are highly trained to take care of these mental unstable people. They also had three mentally challenged children staying while I was there and no one knew how to care for them. They would sit in the corner by themselves for houses with no one watching them. Not one but two of these children had asked for they re stuffed animals for comfort and the nurses didn t care that these kids where breaking down. I was kicked from the cafeteria js because I speak loud and when I voiced that this was unfair especially because I have an eating disorder a doctor (Hector) laughed in my face and said you will be fine . Another incident that occurred was when my roommate came in my room while I was showering and it made me uncomfortable so I asked them to switch my room. Considering I have past sexual trauma I was distressed and disturbed. A group of nurses that could barely understood Me refused to listen to me and made me sit up till one in the morning before they switched my room after yelling at me and rolling their eyes at me. They did not do a good job at monitoring the kids taking their medication and they put us on whatever drugs they felt after saying they d need to contact my mom (which they still hadn t done at this point). They had told kids that they where keeping them there to see how the pills where effecting them. The doctors had all told me different things about when I d get to go home and I eventually had to go talk to a judge and convince him that I was fine to go home. The doctor only talked to me for maybe five minutes and wrote down only negative notes about me and assumed that my distress was a manic episode. He had no reason to hold me and was very disrespectful to everyone there, simply ignoring them and taking phone calls while they re speaking. No therapists are on the job and if they are it s a ten minute work sheet they call group which basically just tells you to take deep breaths. Everyone there is miserable and need professional help not to be lock away from society. I was let outside maybe three times my whole week stay and when I got out I felt like a complete different person. I felt ruined and broke in ways I ve never felt before. I had to ask for an extra blanket every day and I didn t get one till I was about to leave. We don t get deodorant and almost everyone smells. It felt like we were being held in some sort of experiment chamber. No one gave me any held and I was disrespected in ways I ve never been before. For a place that s supposed to help the unwell it made me so much worse. None of the staff is professional or trained and most barely speak English. There is so much more I could go on to explain, like how they told my friend they gave her a huge shot (IM) to make an example out of her or how they told me my behavior mattered but told other kids that even if they act out they ll still get out but this is all I can currently remember. DONT NOT SEND ANYONE HERE I WOULD NOT WISH THIS ON MY WORST ENEMY!!! PLEASE KEEP YOURE FAMILY SAFE!!!!