Department of State Hospitals-Metropolitan — Attraction in Norwalk

The staff here are awful. My relative is a patient and one of their staff assaulted her; after she reported him the other staff started treating her badly, talking about how they think she is a liar and how they want to keep stuff from her(like some sort of punishment), and how the other male staff have started walking in on her without knocking or notice. The staff here are awful, perverted, and vindictive. Try to make sure your relatives are sent somewhere else for their own safety. Update: apparently the employees do not even watch the patients. They sit in their office and play on their phones, while patients go into other patients rooms and steal. They refuse to even tell the other patients to stop. The hiring practices at this place are terrible and people need to start getting fired. My relative still feels uncomfortable with these people and the way they disrespect both her...

My son was taken here on October 12. He killed himself on October 23 after his request for a change in medication was repeatedly ignored. He was experiencing really bad side effects from Haldol. He said the staff just laughed at him. The doctor also ignored him and refused to speak with me or his friend - my son was hoping the doctor would listen to a parent or another person and finally believe that he was really suffering miserable side effects from the medication.

My son was happy here at first. He liked that he had more freedoms than at the Twin Towers. He survived three months in jail. He was reading lots of books, writing letters, learning languages. He was making plans for his future.

We thought the hospital would be better. It seemed so at first, but I feel they killed my son by ignoring his desperate plea for help. I don’t even want to give it a...

David Walters they used 5 point restraints on me but they only kept them on for half a day then they locked me up in the padded room. But I was in the childrens dorm so maybe it was different for me. But now I am better and although I'm not a productive part of society like I don't have a job I don't really have anything that's my own I'm...