I was in the adolescent unit for around 8 days las...

I was in the adolescent unit for around 8 days last year and it was the worst inpatient unit I've been in. Worse than UBHC and Hampton. At Carrier there was much less supervision, which made it incredibly easy to self harm/ do destructive behaviors. I also ate no more than 300 calories every day while i was there and no one noticed. And out of the 8 days i was there, i met with my therapist (maybe) once outside of my intake and discharge. Also, the groups were horrible. There were fewer groups than other inpatient units and the groups at Carrier were much less meaningful. We rarely talked about our problems, it was just mostly playing games and filling out meaningless worksheets. And unlike other places, no one cared if you went to groups or not. You could skip all the groups and still get discharged in a little more than a week.
And I'm not exactly complaining about this, but one girl wrote really inappropriate (and really good) smut and one of the nurses read it and didn't care at all. I think she said she liked the story.

However, there were some nice nurses there, i got to go outside a few times, and though the privacy definitely didn't benefit my recovery, it was nice. And I got to go to equine therapy once (though it consisted of me chasing a donkey around and some lady trying to relate that to recovery or something).