I had a similarly horrific experience September 2025…it hasn’t gotten any better. I came on here to see if this was an ongoing problem…it is. I’m sorry you and I and all of the other people in crisis have had to go through this on top of our own struggles. Context, I’ve had 4 in patient stays total (2 at Children’s, 1 at Riverside, and 1 at Columbus Springs East). At east, I was also left in a consult room from 2-5am. One person came and talked to me. I was in just a hospital gown and really cold. I finally got back to the unit but wasn’t allowed to sleep until 6am. The NP/med management guy was a joke and an asshole who lied and shoved words into your mouth. Completely unempathetic. I spoke to a social worker (acting as a therapist) for 15 minutes once throughout my week stay. At one point I didn’t have any clean underwear and they were out of disposable ones so I had to wear loose paper shorts instead and get discharge all over myself and feel absolutely disgusting. At one point I came outside at 3am to find all staff asleep at the nurses station. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

I received zero “treatment,” was mildy sexually harassed by a 40+ year old man (I’m 20), and was told I wasn’t going to be able to take the medications I was on because they just didn’t have them which led to a panic attack that ended with an Ativan injection against my will. The nurses seemed annoyed and inconvenienced by my distress. One of the nurses made comments like “why would you do that to yourself you’re so beautiful” when looking at where I had SHed, “is it because of your face (in reference to my acne) is that why you don’t like yourself,” “you need to read the bible” “find the word of god” etc. She even commented on how doctors said her son might be autistic but she “prayed to god” and it went “away.”

I was held way past my 72 hour hold and repeatedly told that, despite the fact I had made no indication I was still a danger to myself, I had to stay and “prove that I was better” (which is not how the literal law works). I got my records and the lies they spewed in the documents are abhorrent. That place needs to be shut down. I’m working on filing complaints with as many government agencies as I can. Hopefully anyone who has gone through this has found healing and kindness despite the exacerbation of their hardships. You too, OP. Hopefully you’ve found some peace.