The Living Room at Princeton

It's lit 🔥 nah but for real tho it definitely helped me alot being here. Nice place Nice staff 👍

My mid-20s daughter spent roughly 30 days at TLR over the summer, having had a severe manic episode. She’s been struggling with bipolar type I and severe CPTSD for much of her life. Initially, I had cautious optimism when she entered the program, but TLR annihilated any and all credibility with me over the course of her stay. So, so much to “unpack” as they say over there, but here are the most egregiously negligent occurrences. 1. TLR was negligent in medically supervising my child during her residence there. More than once, their providers failed to refill her medications in a timely manner. There was a stretch of 3 or 4 days when TLR knowingly left her without mood stabilizers, during which another manic episode started manifesting. There were a few nights when the house techs failed to administer her anti-epileptics and the a1-blocker tamping down her CPTSD-related sleep terrors. Both my kid and I repeatedly, vociferously, through several channels and to several people, asked TLR to deal with the situation. Lots of promises and “let me check on that” and “I’ll call them now” with virtually no corrective actions. At one point I had to drive an hour round trip from the sober house to a distant pharmacy and back because TLR sent the rx’s to the wrong pharmacy AFTER LEAVING HER WITHOUT MEDS FOR DAYS! 2. TLR has absolutely zero willingness to communicate with outside providers. I asked 3 or 4 times to have TLR medical team talk to my kid’s outpatient psych, who’s been treating her for a decade. Absolutely no traction. Her doctor called and left messages. He sent emails. I called, talk to people in person, and also left emails. Zero responsiveness. 3. During her program, the NJ DHS OPIA (government body responsible for investigating problems at DHS regulated facilities) was called in to investigate a TLR employee who exploited my kid’s traumatized emotional state to manipulate (groom) bother and another resident for the purposes of his own “gratification”. My kid talked to the investigator for over an hour, recounting the full horror of what transpired. Keep in mind this occurred during TLR’s interruption of her mood stabilizers and yet they still tried to convince my kid it was just “consenting adults, no need to worry” when she was not legally able to consent and would never have done so in her right mind. WHY and HOW did TLR let this happen? Would YOU trust them? 4. TLR refuses to put anything important in writing, often bullying you or badgering you to talk on the phone or in person. Whenever a provider’s default strategy is to maximize spoliage, be suspicious. In retrospect, I should have told my kid to record every single one-on-one or non-group meeting. A male directors at TLR thought he was being oh-so-clever and de-escalatory by “joking” about my kid supposedly being promiscuous with no impulse control or self-respect. “I mean, it’s not like we’re going to rent you a room at the Motel 6”. Out of context, out of nowhere, humiliating, and made my kid’s trauma worse. He cornered my kid in his office with another female therapist, both of whom lied when I asked point blank what he said to my daughter. All this and much, much more awfulness. For the incredulous, I have receipts for all these facts. So please don’t try to burnish your burning brand with a bad faith removal of the truth.

I just wanted to take some time out to personally thank you guys at The Living Room of Princeton after the death of my brother my mother became severely depressed and started to drown herself in drugs and alcohol it kinda seemed to the family that she possibly no longer wanted to live after doing a family intervention and some extensive research we came in contact with you all however after being there for six months the second time she is doing much better she has been working on past traumas and has learned several tools on how to cope with stressors as they arise I would sincerely like to thank everyone to all that has been involved in this process and a special thanks to Dr.August Leming,Kyle Richards & Terbett Martin for helping my mom/ daughter and our family tru these hard times Sincerely The Family of Vicki M