Good psych Hospital NY area anyone

[Edward Schreiber]

What about 4-Winds Hospital?
Judy Swallow and Rebecca Walters have a long association with 4-Winds  
and I know they are outstanding in their work there.
Ed
On Oct 23, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Bud Weiss wrote:

> Dear People:
> I desperately need a good psych hospital for my son. He has been in  
> and out 11 times over the past 8 years bipolar 1 and everywhere it  
> is the same, mickey mouse group sessions, psychiatrists and  
> psychologists who really don't know how to join really seriously  
> mentally ill people and try to power or snow patients into  
> complying with their meds and a plan. IT DOESN"T WORK BUT THAT  
> DOESN"T STOP THEM... Xavier Amador's work does but so few in the  
> system are trained in it see www.xavieramador.com or  
> www.leapinstitute.org
> Please let me know if you know any place that is good and has  
> decent treatment and follow up afterwards anywhere around New York,  
> Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. I would take him there if  
> I have to. He is on the verge of coming apart again just having  
> been literally discharged from one of the worst facilities, St.  
> Vincent's hospital in New York City REISS 3 unit under the  
> direction of Oscar Ramos, M.D. whose license to practice I am going  
> to go after. It is the hospital nearest us and Sam actually  
> directed the ambulance and police to take him there after I called  
> the police to hospitalize him as he was fully manic and a real  
> danger to himself though not to others.   Ramos told my son that if  
> he continued to act up, he would put him out on the street. That is  
> what he did 3 years ago resulting in my son being back in Bellevue  
> for 3 months. Sam said to that, "Well, that's easy, I'll just act  
> out cause I want to get out of this hell hole.   After my pleading  
> with Ramos, he reversed it to saying that if Sam was a good boy,  
> after 5 days fully manic with psychotic features telling them that  
> he would refuse to continue to take meds when he is out, Ramos said  
> that he would then discharge Sam which is what Sam wanted. THis was  
> done and now, Sam is a mess changing his mind about things from  
> moment to moment, mood changing etc. We are about to tell him that  
> he cannot live in his mother's apartment as he has been doing all  
> his life, if he does not take his meds, He will have to go to a  
> shelter. Sam is a kind loving incredibly talented Pianist, keyboard  
> artist and composer who under the name Shnabubula ) google search  
> comes up with over 85,000 pages about him and his breakthrough  
> piece on the "Kind of Bloop" album got him an interview by Time  
> Magazine on the Internet in which he was misquoted which drove Sam  
> over the top as he became more and more disturbed about all of it  
> contacting people everywhere to try to let them know that he had  
> been misquoted. He stopped sleeping, took no meds, ate tons of  
> sugar and split apart becoming more and more agitated and going out  
> in the middle of the night insulting people on the street  
> challenging them to be fixed by him or get the F... away. He has  
> never attacked anyone physically in his life, and he has been  
> totally provocative during these manic episodes.\
> Any thoughts and suggestions re good treatment hospitals would be  
> appreciated. I don't have enough money for Sam to be in a place  
> like Windhorse which we looked at some time ago. It has to be a  
> hospital that accepts medicare and medicaid.
> thanks, Bud
>
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