Mental Health Providers in Beaufort, South Carolina

I just want to say for a hospital this one is the worse. When you have a nurse call you to tell you that a family member needs to get to the hospital asap because of the bad treatment your love one is receiving is alarming. That is a call we received and of course was at the hospital in minutes and the condition that my daughter was in was appalling. Because of her frequent visit because of a chronic illness staff decided that she was a drug addict and drug seeking. She was in severe pain and vomiting which is what happens with the illness she has so they stuck her in a room with little to no care. The condition for which my daughter was found in was upsetting she was left in her own urine no one bothered to help get her cleaned up and she was not able to do it herself. This wasn’t the first time she had been mistreated and patient advocate was communicated with on more then one occasion. However Ill treatment did not change. We actually had her discharged and drove 1 1/2 hours to MUSC where the care and attention was top tier and no judgement of her was made. Again this hospitals own nurse called this was not something made up. When you leave your love one in a hospital you expect them to be respected and cared for not ridiculed and judged. I could go on because there is so much more I am not saying. For this to be the local hospital it’s disheartening.

My dad got cancer and I was working long hours with health problem in far distance. No one ever told me Bipolar 1 has depressed mood. I wish they can teach all the family members about this illness information. They only asked me to watch out for manic (High energy) and no sleeping sign. I don't ever know how to tell is a person getting depressed or getting well? I wish they can tell me to take Bipolar member to the emergency room or a place to let my mom to stay until she got recover. All they gave me is a after hour phone number. I had been telling them my mom has been worry for some items since 6 years ago, her anxiety was getting worse from over time. All they did was moved the Dr. appointment closer. I asked my mom how was the appointment and what type of question did the doctor asked you? She always told me, “ same as usually (Dr asked her how are you, how do you feel, straight up your hands).” It tooks a week to get confirmed one question for my mom needed to increased sleeping pills. Mom saw Dr. a month before and the RN was almost two weeks before her suicide. They are very busy, RN sent me an email on the same day that she wants to come to my mom home to see her. I only check personal email after work, and by the time I checked my email I already missed the nurse visit time. If they didn’t suggested my mom try the new med, my mom wouldn't suicides. “Dr. stated we can change your Mom to Lamictal, however, she does not feel it will hold her psychosis. She also feels it will not reduce the tremors but we can try.“ I told them no on the phone, since it’s not going to hold her psychosis. “Dr. said that her neurologist wants a trial of the lamictal and she would like follow his advice”.