This review is from 4 years ago (I post on all loc...

This review is from 4 years ago (I post on all locations to get the word out):

i would never recommend anyone to go to veritas collaborative and i don't think i will ever be able to forget my experience there. i was a patient at veritas for 5 weeks at their durham location. i will start of by saying they will pretty much room you with anyone and guy don't have a say. treated like an inconvenience by almost every therapeutic assistant and every psychiatrist. i was 14 when i was there and was roommates with a 10 year old for most of my stay. my roommate had ARFID (she was scared to eat because she thought she would throw up) but did not understand anything about anorexia or bulimia and would say the rudest things to me. i was then roommates with another 10 year old who would constantly ask me and make remarks about my self harm and the staff would never let me switch rooms. one 19 year old there was roommates with a 10 year old as well and it was seen as no big deal. at veritas, it's really no big deal if you don't eat or refuse meals. they never force you to have an NG tube and the only time you get one is if you or your parents agree to it. there was always so much drama on the unit and staff pretty much ignored it. towards the end of my stay at veritas and before i was transferred to another facility, i was only getting worse. i was refusing every meal and having several panic attacks a day. their fix to everything was to give me sedatives to knock me out and when i woke up, more sedatives. i wasn't told in advance that i would be transferred and never even had the slightest idea. i was flown in a medical jet and was only told that i was leaving when the ambulance got there to take me to the jet. i was not allowed to say bye to any of the people that helped me through hard times and i was forced to leave during night time snack because everyone was in the kitchen and i was room ridden. they forced my dad to be there all day and would not allow him to talk to anyone. he was in a room by himself for 6 hours and was not allowed to talk to any of the other parents and he had no clue what was going on either. if you made it to the partial hospitalization program (PHP) your parents had to move down to durham and rent an apartment so your child could finish the program. most parents had to quit their jobs and leave everything so they could move from where they lived and go to durham. the average stay for a patient there from (residential and php) was about 6 months give or take a month. veritas collaborative is a for profit organization and just wants your money. the facility is almost too good to be true and it almost makes you not want to go home which is bad because that is no longer a motivator for some patients. i was transferred from veritas because i was "too much of a disruption" and they didn't know what to do with me. that was not the case though, they just wanted to protect their name. another suspicious thing, you will not find any bad review about veritas no matter how hard you search. they should not be a behavioral health/ eating disorder hospital is they are not equipped/ unable to care for every patient admitted. please look elsewhere before sending a loved one here.