Rivière-des-Prairies Hospital

i went there a couple years ago when I did a suicide attempt. It was a very good experience for me I made very good friends and even requested to stay a week more to stay with my friends. Two thing that I didnt like about my experience tho was 1. The day I left the hospital one of the guy that was looking at us to watch us he hugged me to say bye and i dont know if im overthinking or reacting but omg I felt SO uncomfortable he hugged me extremely hard and his hand was at the bottom of my back which didn’t make me feel safe at all. But overall during my stay he was one of my favourite. 2.We were once watching tv and a sex scene came up and the the worker said a very weird comment idk i felt a bit uncomfortable. 3.The person who was trying to find a solution with my solution kept telling me I had no other choice but to go to my dads house. I told them multiple times that I would go anywhere but my dad’s house I didn’t want to i didnt feel like it and I wasn’t comfortable going there (he didn’t do anything to me im just uncomfortable i guess) but this truly made me very scared of where I would go and upset about them not listening to me.OH AND when i arrived they said were gonna keep u one day, then they said a week… i stayed for 2-3 months and they refused to let me do my minister exams which ruined many things like I cant get in my program in cegep because of this shortly

I stayed at this hospital in late 2020 for about two weeks. After reading other reviews i can very easily relate to quite a few of the people here. If you do decide to go there be prepared to be treated badly. I was about 11 when i went there. They told me i would only stay there for 3 days which somehow turned into 2 weeks. They would lie to my mom to make it seem like i was crazy and ungrateful. I felt like most of the people that took care of me and the other kids there were unqualified. They made me feel unheard and made me doubt myself a lot. I dont think anyone should go through that especially at this young age.

I came to this hospital once. Never again and i do not recommend sending anyone here. I came for my depression, suicidal issues and extreme body dysmorphia. Your only goal is to get out of there as soon as possible. You feel as if you have no escape whatsoever and you are watched 24/7. I felt miserable. The staff lies, alot. I feel like they distorted alot of what i said to my parents to make me seem crazy to keep me there longer. If anything this place made me alot sneakier and secretive. I feel like locking us in our rooms most of the day just isolates us and makes us feel worst. Never in my life have i gotten so much medication that really didnt feel necessary. You feel like your in a prison with no type of contact with the outside world. I understand that safety is important, but you can't take EVERYTHING away from us. My pens were taken away out of fear of me mutilating myself with them, in that case have someone supervise me while i draw instead of just raking it away. Please just stay away from this place as much as possible.

I went there in mid 2019, I was only 9, and honestly i came there for being helped with stress and helping to control myself but only came out with a trauma. They lied to my mom by saying i would only stay there for a week, then when i asked them they replied with a « your gonna stay here the time it takes » i really endured a lot but this is something, the emotion i felt.. it was like rage mixed up with sadness and betrayal but couldn’t do anything to help it. This place is like a jail, this is the worst place i ever went, hope they changed that system.

Came here for my anxiety and trauma, got out with worse anxiety and trauma. You will get treated like a lab rat, the staff doesnt actually care about you and your only goal will soon become 'getting out of here as quickly as possible'. Only positive thing is that I'm a better liar now. I also got diagnosed with BPD there but they never actually told me, they just told my mother. During the middle of the night, nurses will make sure you're sleeping by getting in your room and pointing a flashlight on your face. They'll try to censor you if you swear or say your opinions on certain things, they even took away one of my psychology books because I was reading to my roomate about schizophrenia (which she had). They also said that my anxiety wasnt that bad because i didnt ask the nurses for my meds, but they never actually told me i could ask for anxiety meds, and even if they did, i have ANXIETY, I wouldnt walk up to a condescending stranger and ask for pills. You'd be treated way better at Sea World as an orca and you should definitively avoid this hospital at all cost. I was hospitalized a bit more than three years ago and i still have panic attacks and nightmares about being sent back there. Now i literally cannot tell anyone how I feel because i am terrified of being hospitalized once more, which stops me from getting actually better. Sorry for the long review, but this had to be said. DO NOT GO TO THIS HOSPITAL