I had to recently make the very difficult decision to admit my 19 year old son to a residential psychiatric facility. He has struggled for the last couple of years with his issues. We had been trying to find the right place throughout this process - without great success. Pasadena Villa Smoky Mountain Lodge was our answer! The staff there is thoughtful and very caring. When he arrived there he was very lost and struggling greatly. With the help of the amazing therapists there he found his balance in life and the proper medications to help him. I'm so grateful he spent time there. And I am grateful to the amazing therapist that helped him through this difficult time. Mental health is a very difficult struggle to have to deal with - thank goodness there's Pasadena Villa to make the journey a bit easier.
When a team of health professionals tell you that your adult child needs duel diagnosis treatment at a residential facility, and recommend only a few places, it’s a difficult thing to process. There are so many questions, and how do you know if a program will be the right one for your loved one? After talking to health professionals and the admissions team at Pasadena Villa, we decided on Pasadena for mental health and substance abuse treatment. After a bit of a rough start, which I now understand is normal for patients, our daughter was paired with a therapist who was really able to help her make some good progress. Also, the psychiatrist, nurses, and techs were supportive and helpful. I was able to communicate with the therapist, and other members of the treatment team when I had concerns. The ability to have good communications with the therapist and treatment team was a strong point of the treatment experience at Pasadena Villa. At the end of the day, you have to decide if a program is right for your loved one, but don’t be afraid to ask lots of questions to help you decide.
3) Unfortunately, my son became aggressive at one point and was taken to a psych hospital. I do not blame Pasadena for doing this at all. What was frustrating and heartbreaking was that after almost 3 months of being in their care and with over $40,000 invested, Pasadena basically washed their hands of him and I had to beg them to get input on what to do next. We were not from the area and not familiar at all. My son is on an antipsychotic monthly injection and was released from the psych hospital yesterday and we do not even know where he is or if he has been giving the medication. He does not have his belongings which are still at Pasadena. I have yet to have a call by Pasadena to see if he’s ok. It’s so tragically sad.
Pasadena Villa was willing to take a chance on my son when others were not. They welcomed him and took an angry, sullen young man and gave him a safe place to be. The animal therapy and outdoor activities gave him something to do when he wasn't yet ready for groups. The therapist was very kind and willing to try anything that might work to draw my son out. We will always be grateful.
Our son was a resident at Pasadena Villa for almost 3 months. He has a thought/personality disorder along with traumatic brain injury and substance misuse. He admittedly was a very difficult case and Pasadena did take him when other places would not. I think they tried, but there were several things I would suggest. 1) I would have liked the facility to consider weekly calls from the therapist to us privately on how my son was really doing, IN ADDITION to the weekly family sessions over the phone with my son. The family sessions were not very productive and open because the therapist was trying to put a positive spin on things to be encouraging which is certainly important and she allowed my son to lead the meeting but he did little talking. So we never had a really honest clear picture of progress or problems. Clearly he was not liked by a large portion of residents and other problems. We needed to know these things. 2) When my son went to step-down housing they promised they would get him to a job site to work 2-3 days per week. Part of the therapeutic process. Pasadena self-admittedly dropped the ball on that promise and could not get him there. He missed out on a job offer because of it. They then said that he could volunteer 4 hrs a week which was a big disappointment and frustrating. This led to much more free time for him and of course he was at the main lodge during the day with no where to go to relax because he no longer had a room there.
The place is a scam. The food sucks and there's never enough of it. The groups only cover very basic material. I spent a week at Pasadena Villa before I tried to leave, instead they had me committed to a mental hospital, they wouldn't let me take my clothes with me, they threw away about $60 worth of food I had bought at Dollar General, they kept 14 packs of cigarettes that I had. I got my clothes back after getting out of the hospital, except for a coat I had in my room. I got more, better food and treatment when I was Buffalo Valley. Pasadena Villa is set up to look first class, but it's all fake. Clients clapped when they presented the meals, but it's never any good.
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