Juniper Yates

Review of Trillium family services

I, personally, have been there first hand after an...

I, personally, have been there first hand after an attempt to end my life. While the therapists are amazing and the activities were fun, I think it left me worse off. The staff are good friends, but TERRIBLE counselors and act like the teenagers there do. Most of the staff on unit pick favorites and leave other kids out, are very passive to SUICIDAL KIDS, and make your time there a living hell. The food was fine, and there campus is quite lovely, but all and all not worth it. I think two months in jail would better than two months in here. I wish I could post without giving it a star at all, in fact.

If you ve read this far, stay tuned, there s more. The English teacher is incredible, but the others...not so much. For their safety I won t mention names, but the math teacher is a better friend than teacher, and his methods don t work for most students, but he refuses to change. His ASSISTANT, we ll call him J, should be the ACTUAL TEACHER. He is polite, funny and understanding. But worst of all is the SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER. He is funny sometimes, but COMPLETELY invalidates EVERYONE OPINIONS. Never made me feel better about school and told me my opinions were wrong. He is closed minded, even after all his volunteering, and is WAY to political.

On another topic, they called the other patients, from my view, as PRACTICE FRIENDS. That is so VERY wrong!! They don t allow you to grow friendships outside of the facility, and refuses to let you touch or hug your friends. It is an isolating community and they leave you touch deprived. When my parents visited me after a long week of work, when they hugged me I was actually afraid. Yeah, that s right, AFRAID OF MY OWN LOVING FAMILY touching me because no one is allowed to paint each other s nails or hug them for support. I know of many facilities who do this and are fine, but whatever.

They don t allow emergency family calls past bedtime, which is rude when you feel like you want to die and just need to call a friend or parent. And, they don t care when you cry. They just look at you with no remorse. I even told somebody there of a triggering and traumatizing event that ACTUALLY happened and they accused me of seeking attention and lying. Well, duh I was seeking attention, especially if I m asking for HELP because I feel like I can t LIVE ANY LONGER.

Anyways, this all just my opinion. If it saved you, bravo, but it only taught me to hide my feelings more and to bottle it all and suck it up,