Big B.
1/5
my friend recently lost his brother and father in the same month leaving him with no remaining immediate family. he has battled severe depression all his adult life but naturally this loss has driven him to the brink of suicide. in desperation he volunteered to become an informal patient at this hellhole but he immediately realised that he had made one of the worst decisions of his life. after being there for just 24 hours he had already witnessed sights and experiences out of nightmare with clearly disturbed or outright deranged patients completely left to their own devices as they ranted and raved, or argued and fought with each other and him. he managed to stick it out for a week but by then he was in a much worse state than when he had arrived and so, knowing that if things continued he might not make it out of there, he asked to leave, as he had been told he could upon his voluntary admission. this was met with an appalling betrayal of trust as three members of staff tried to bully him into staying with threats of involuntary committal and the purposeful attempt to provoke him into a reaction which would be used as a pretext to forcefully detain him. for an hour and a half they mercilessly harrassed and cajoled him, contantly changing tactics as they relentlessly hammered at him from three sides, completely destroying any sense of trust and safety from these supposed care givers. he is such an emotional wreck that he has had to move in with me as he doesnt trust that he wont do something drastic if left to his own devices. in this modern age this place is more resembling of bedlam than a modern mental health fcility where people would pay tuppence to watch the chained up lunatics fling their excrement at each other.... SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
the one star is only because zero stars is not an option, now i shall go see about contacting my M.P and some journalists.
