The Darwin Centre

Spent 3 months here. My personal nurse was lovely but my shadow nurse was awful. I had ensure tipped over me by staff, saw things nobody should ever see, especially a child. The nutritionist was horrible - made a remark about how i should just eat it. Certain staff members were emotionally abusive behind closed doors, claiming patients wanted to be here and were faking illnesses. Bonds between patients were discouraged and patients got separated often. In the whole time i had 1 one-to-one therapy session with my therapist. Group therapy consisted of watching a programme, listening to some music and going outside. No family therapy even though it was promised as part of my care plan. Got discharged before i was ready and ended up back in another unit a few months later.
Jul 5th, 2022

Loved the patients, my experience personally wasn't good i came out more traumatized than i was before it was horrible. Saw things no person should ever see at such a young age its coming up to 2months out and they didn't help me at all. they just said i was lying and everything was behavioral, the bank staff were lovely well most of them. Receptionists are lovely and my phycologist was amazing. I thank all the people who did actually help me to get out of there and i made some lovely memories out of it with my so called family at that time. i thank all of the patients that helped me get through my tough times and my doctor plus his dog. thank you Darwin we had some good memories but i still would never recommend you to anyone because your service is like cahms, not very good. Anyway thank you for my horrible time i hope i never come back to you again and i wish everyone who goes in there, there gonna need it.
Apr 17th, 2022

Apr 15th, 2022

I stayed here for just over a month and the staff and patients were all nice and kind and also east to get along with, but it didnt help me and to be honest I think Im just the same as I was before and in the past week Ive had 3 breakdowns worse than normal and 2 of them were before discharge. Im at A&E now after being discharged yesterday. the treatment they tried to give didnt help. I think there is too much push on home leave, I want to be home for a while not back and forwards, they put this as the cause of all my problems and it then felt like I couldnt talk to most of the staff. There was also a lot of miscommunication with me and staff and also staff and my parents, for example my parents had no clue what was happening with leave a lot of the time and I was not told a lot of things i later found out I should have been. Even so I do think it was positive being around other people and everyone there is really nice, friendly and easy to get along with, but as far as treatment went and me being better and ok went it was just talk of discharge. Which yes I do want to be discharged but when Im at least a little better off, I think this also made it feel like I was just going to be dropped before any changes were made towards my mood. Thank you for trying to help me though, and I will miss some of the people I met there
Dec 14th, 2021

I believe in a lot of the staff and they have helped me mentally but unfortunately some staff aren't as trustworthy. I love the support of the hospital and I want them to be treated with respect.They looked after me even through my hard times but you guys make your own opinion.
Feb 23rd, 2021