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So this is a very long interesting review of my experience over the weekend at St. James behavioral Hospital. It all started. It all started when I brought myself to the ER because I could not stop crying and I was just overwhelmed over life. I didn’t have any huge behavior issues nor did I feel like I was gonna harm myself or anyone else but anyway they sent me to St. James to be evaluated as I arrived on a Saturday I came in through ambulance and was told to put on gowns. They said they were gonna wash my clothes by 3 PM that day my clothes still have not been even taken from the office where they were originally put in at 6 AM in the morning. They had ran out of breakfast so they gave me a sandwich chips and rice crispy treat I was forced to stay and gowns for at least a full day in the next morning and finally my clothes brought to me. I had a roommate that I’m not sure what was her issue. She was much older than me, which was fine. I told the text when Sunday morning that she had left a mess in the bathroom, including a dirty diaper and a tissue with unknown substance by Monday morning when I was finally released that diaper was still there Every couple hours I had to change out my socks that they forced me to wear due to the fact, I was stepping on unknown substances. I’m not sure what was on there for the most part. The tech seemed very frazzled, which was not their fault because they are extremely short staffed with the amount of patient Saint James Takes it at a time and most of these patients are very sick. The place itself was very dirty there was no sanitizing going on that I was aware of and I only seen them mop once in my room there was several patients that needed a one on one and I also noticed with that the patient text from 101 had to get changed out every hour to hour and a half because they were just too frazzled and could not deal with it once again not their fault because they probably just were not trained and they are also very shortstaffed. The nurse is for the most part was nice but they did not give me my medication. That I was prescribed until Sunday night. I asked repeatedly for it from Saturday on Sunday and they said the pharmacy had not brought it because it was the weekend. I’m not sure how that works with them or what pharmacy they use, but it was a pain medication that I’m prescribed to take twice a day I had to go up there and asked for Ativan just to take the edge off because I’ve been on the medication for so long. They did comply and give me the Ativan. The food was brought in from Baton Rouge General Hospital I’m assuming because that’s what they told me the industrial soap that they told us that we needed to use along with the role on hospital deodorant was just disgusting. I’m not sure where they get it from or who made it, but it was in an industrial bottle like you were put hand soap and restrooms and places There was only one group during the weekend