Reasons Eating Disorder (BHC Alhambra)

1 star cuz I can’t give 0 💀for inpatient:))) Not equipped for epilepsy. There’s a never ending flicker in the lights. The staff make sure to keep it on too!! They say both lights have to be on. There’s amazing advice! Such as “how can we work through this piece” and “what coping skills can we use in this moment?” Encourages to not eat gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve! To challenge ourselves by not giving us gloves to make the gingerbread house. It’s a good “exposure”. Leaves scissors with patients unattended with patients with high urges to SH. Poor things so overworked they can’t remember not to do that 🤥what a shame 😖. Treat us like children and not humans. You can’t be sick there and if so, they put you on bed rest without even checking on you. We’ve got drill Sargents 🫡for MHW’s and some nurses. We have a therapist who acts and looks like she turned 6 recently. She’s nervous around patients and doesn’t know what she’s doing. She makes the rest of the patients nervous with her. Slugs and ants come to visit in our inpatient bathrooms so we don’t feel bad for not getting visitors 🤗. It’s hard to ask for things because we are made to feel like a burden and are asking too much from them. I’ve truly learned how difficult I am. So self identity work has been accomplished there too! But Lauryn, Belinda, Arelly and Emily can do their jobs at least! The rest need to get re-certified/ more training. My therapist has some good insight on the easiest ways to kill myself! Thanks for the ideas 💡

I appreciate all of the kindness but honesty. All of the staff were very kind and gave me hope. I honestly... I lost hope for some time and they showed me how to get that hope back. Reasons BHC also showed me how to be myself and not to be afraid of being myself. One very wise person, a therapist, showed me that being like water can be very powerful, that it can be very calm but very strong. Another very wise person showed me that my negative beliefs about my ED I can let go like balloons and plant like seeds my new positive beliefs in myself. Thank you to all of my team and specialy to therapist Emily, dietitian Sarah, program manager and lead nurse Erica, therapist Tammy, therapist Niesha, and therapist Jessica. Thank you reasons for giving me a REASON to and courage to get better. Thank you reasons - Sara

Reasons saved my life. Residential treatment is rough, but they were empathetic and understanding. The programming is intense but worth it. You work with so many different therapists and specialists that even if you don't click with one, you likely will with one of the others.

Like some of you have mentioned, after reading the reviews and not believing what the other people said I decided to still try Reasons. RUN AS FAR AS YOU CAN FROM THIS PLACE. This place is “exposure based” which means they traumatize you by making you spend most of the day in the kitchen or eating. When I showed signs of being unstable and traumatized ( I have ARFID and extremely high anxiety around food), they said it wasn’t the right place for me in the first place and I was placed there by mistake. They took no responsibility and sent me to the airport or said they would call the police. They do not understand neurodivergence , trauma, or co-occurring conditions. I was having an autistic meltdown and trying my best to calm down and because my voice was raised (out of distress) they got in my face and told me to stop crying and acting like a baby. They said I would stop crying if I wanted to but I was “being dramatic”. You have no control while having an autistic meltdown. It doesn’t work that way. They also used physical pain to try to control my behavior. Nurses Lamara and Lindy at the Acadia house are inappropriate and were the ones who got in my face and threatened me for crying. If you want to succeed and actually feel like a person of value go somewhere else like Alsana. Everyone was leaving AMA when I was here because everyone was unhappy with how they were being treated. I was discharged with no vitals taken, no food for almost 24 hours, and not given my daily medication. I was sent to the airport in a cab crying. I would give it zero stars if I could.

I am a recent graduate of the Reasons virtual program. Last summer I found myself seeking treatment again for my Anorexia and Binge eating disorders at the ripe young age of 49. I was feeling alone and scared that I was going to be unable to find the help I so desperately needed. My insurance didn’t cover treatment so I was referred to the county Department of Mental Health (DMH) for them to locate a program for me. They were able to locate a program that allowed me to enter treatment at Reasons. When I was finally accepted to the program, my state disability had expired, and I needed to return to work for 60 days to reset my state disability. In full eating disorder behavior, I was forced to return to work. In those 60 days, my ED became much worse. Luckily, the staff at Reasons agreed to re-evaluate me for treatment at the end of the required 60 days of work. After all the hassles and jumping through rings of fire, I finally entered treatment at Reasons. I finally realized I wanted off the ED roller coaster that had consumed my life. Through the program process at Reasons, I discovered that I had to be the reason I recovered. In the past, my attempts at recovery were for reasons other than to save my own life. I finally realized I could not do it for anyone or anything else. I had to be the reason. It was not easy. They challenged me and pushed me out of my comfort zone to realize I am more than my eating disorder. And, I deserve to be happy. They taught me how to manage my emotions and work through them without returning to behaviors. They taught me about nutrition and portioning and worked with my food intolerances to understand my body better. To those who had a negative experience with the program, I see you. I hear you. I encourage you to never give up. Keep fighting. Be the reason you recover. You are worth it!

It helped some. But not near enough. I went in with anorexia and now I binge eat. So basically referring syndrom. Wish they would of addressed that. And had made junk food not a priority. Because now that's all I crave and if I eat healthy I feel like I'm giving into my eating disorder. Positive notes. I made some of the best friends ever there. And they don't watch as closely as they should so you find ways to get away with more. So now yall know some of the ins and outs.

I was suppose to go to residential through Reasons and was told there was no bed and asked if I would go to their inpatient hospital until one was available for my eating disorder. I said yes. This place is a like a psychiatric prison. Most doors are locked both ways. They locked my coloring book up and said I could ask to have it between groups. I said I needed it for coping, and they said no. I asked for my anxiety meds from my psychiatrist. They said no, they had to approve them themselves. An intake lady said SHE would give me 10 of my outfits. I said I needed to choose bc I’d gained a lot of weight at the last inpatient facility & only I knew what fit. She said no, she’s guess what I fit. She said again she would choose. They went through my things, & I wasn’t allowed to be present as they did so. Problems that are absolutely unacceptable & should never have been problems. The eating disorder unit has a gym other units are constantly coming in the building to go to. You sleep on another unit with others from other units. It’s chaos. I could not imagine a more run down place and not conducive to healing place. I was unwilling to stay in such scary and deplorable conditions. It’s SO deceiving from online.

DO NOT SEND ANYONE YOU LOVE HERE…this place made me 10x worse. i went here with a somewhat open mind about recover and ended up way worse. they try to bully you into eating by taking away things and threatening to tube you if you don’t eat(i told them i didn’t care) once they began the process of transferring me somewhere u could be tubed they said that i wasn’t receiving treatment anymore because it obviously wasn’t working. by the time i left there i had lost weight and was medically very unstable and had to be hospitalized. they said that they didn’t care anymore the last week i was there and let me fast for 72 hours straight and then sent me to the er for fluids, this repeated for nearly 2 weeks. horrible program i hope they shut down.