Hi, I was a patient at JPS for four months, the nurses who were caring for us patients unfortunately thought we were all out of our minds like some other patients, but I distinctly remember some very horrific incidents that was never properly looked into despite reporting my nurse of threatening my life who was a male nurse. - this was never investigated and as far as I'm aware he still works there scaring and threatening patients. he nearly broke my hand also. I saw nurses laugh at self harming patients not help them or try to stop them from harming themselves but instead laugh at them for doing it. - this made them do it more. I saw many many many over medicated patients who were drooling instead of being present or "alive and present " they couldn't even speak for themselves and I was concerned that they would over medicate me to such a degree that I wouldn't be able to talk. my BP got to 50 and they did nothing about it ( evidence that they were sedating me when I did not need it) sedation is for aggressive individuals who are fighting taking their medication not for individuals who take their medication. My nurse looked forward to daily nearly breaking my arm and injecting me with his sedative drug. When I told him he was overmedicating me and hurting me he told me would stab me in the eye with the needle if I didn't shut up They never offered counselling but instead they offer talks about random things like how to get out of the hospital instead of dealing with the many deep rooted issues that many patients were dealing with. This was totally unhelpful there was NO HOPE in this hospital. I honestly thought I would die there being overmedicated and no one would care but my parents when they found out I had died. I can say all of this with confidence because I often talked to the other patients and became friends with many of them. All of us were appalled at how they dealt with everything in the hospital, I even had the worst case ever of lice in that hospital. (it was extremely dirty everywhere you look) - I became the patch adams of this hospital and helped talk through a lot of issues with other patients. and when I was scared a nice man (also a patient) held my hand because I was so scared being there. going to this hospital was the worst experience of my life, we NEVER went outside and nothing besides coloring was offered its not a place I would recommend for your loved one if they are having mental health problems its probably the worst place you could take them too and every person that's been there would tell you the same thing. I came out of there with a lot of lessons learned and knowledge of other peoples problems. Now I know that the drug that they used on me specifically effects the memory. - it erases your memories and makes you helpless and extremely sleepy not knowing what's going on with you until it wears off in about 12 hours. I was never offered support of any kind and everything I said was not listened to. it was the worst experience of my entire life.