Pembroke Hospital

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I worked there as an MHA on several different units. On the one hand, the staff was for the most part excellent. On the other hand, some individuals in HR were something less. After I tendered my resignation,someone in HR informed me that I would never be able to work in another Arbour facility. I said thank you and left. As far as the patients went, while some of them were violent and without much hope for change, many others were just everyday people going there hard times.

They screwed up all communications with my family. When I explained how the medicine effected me they ignored me and said to keep taking it. (lithium - which was making me hallucinate and go delusional) There were some friendly staff members there but they pretty much ignored me, resulting in no one rational to talk to for the entire stay. One staff member said I was annoying for needing lactaid before I eat, which was the only pill that I found beneficial. I went into tremors from stress and the doctor claimed I was doing it to myself (the environment and overall situation was too much for me). Eventually I was told I was being sent to a homeless shelter, my mother kept trying to explain to me on the phone that I wasn't going to be homeless but the case worker kept telling me that's where they'll probably be sending me.... It was completely traumatizing and I've only done holistic medicine for psych issues since this happened. I'm doing alright now and it's very clear this place almost destroyed my life.