Maryvale

Was treated dismissively and forcefully handled during my stay there, and guilt tripped by staff in order to behave like I was 'all better'.Was in there for my eating disorder, first thing they did was force me to eat an entire spaghetti meal which was not only a traumatizing experience, but dangerous to my health. Nearly died there and nobody really cared. 10/10 would *TOTALLY* go again if I ever feel mentally unstable *rolls eyes*PS: Dr. Akinlaja is the most incompetent psych I've ever met. Constantly denied that there was anything wrong with me, and when she DID diagnose me, she said I had behavioral issues. I was being abused. No wonder I had behavioral issues.In addition, tried to make me think having terrible side effects from medications was normal. Not true. You shouldn't have to suffer through brain fog and heart murmurs just to feel 'normal.'

DONT GO HERE, it doesn’t help.

The gentleman is professional polite and very knowledgeable. This doctor respects and adjusts to various challenges with any child. He is one who follows up to help protect and guide with the child’s safety and mental health

Was not pleasant the people there were kind for what was a place that still scares me as it was very hard to shower and I felt so terrible there.

They were kind to me for the first maybe 5 months, but when I got too hard to handle they dropped everything. Staff at the impatient program made me uncomfortable and like I was a burden. Social workers have made me feel invalidated, nurses weren't thorough, doctors didn't care. I always felt like the doctors didn't fight for me, care, or try for me because I had been there a lot (4 times) or that they knew they were getting their paycheck at the end of the day anyways so they didn't have to care. I spoke up once and was given sarcastic remarks and rude behavior. Outpatient services are not much better. My doctor said I was getting better even though I had a lot of issues that still needed to be worked on. He even dropped me as a patient as I was all better ". At this point I am uncomfortable to even think about my mental health decline and the possibility of coming back here."

I’ve been here twice, both experiences I had with the psychiatrists were horrid. The first time, she was very impatient with me. The second time, a different psychiatrist was very dismissive of me and the characteristics I exhibited. Not to mention neither of them did a proper assessment on me, when I asked for him to properly assess me he refused and ranted about a previous patient.Both of these psychiatrists also gave me a generalized or incorrect diagnosis. Both times I was in very clear mental and physical distress, I felt like I was met with ableism each time I was referred to Maryvale. There was no empathy for me and I was treated like a number on a list of people to get through.

Went years ago but I continue to hear the same things about this place so I thought I'd share my experience. I was pressured into pretending I was okay to be released and that has stuck with me for the rest of my life. I was tought how to put other before myself because they said I was selfish for not wanting to be alive. I had my favorite band shirts stolen along with my shoes only for staff to blame me for not paying enough attention to stuff I didn't have access to. Staff wasn't exactly nice and I was stuck with doctors that didn't actually want to help. They canceled appointments with the doctor who i was seeing for my meds who worked in the other building for no reason. She was the only person who ever really helped me. Also the therapist they stuck me with after I left the facility tried using religion as the reason I couldn't possibly be trans. This is not a great place for suicidal kids and gives them more trauma than help

This place is a joke they don’t help, they push kids through a system . How can you say a kid who just self harmed them selves is not in danger of of self harming them selves?

Went here and all they gave me was ptsd.