Orygen

Amy with the triage team went above and beyond what I've ever had any mental health worker do for me 11/10 thank you so much

Litteraly horrible I’ve been with them for 2 years now and all they do is prescribe you valium I have a friend who’s going through psychosis and instead of giving her anti psychotics or something to help with psychosis they give give her larazapam a medication for anxiety? How does that make any sense? , I truly have no idea where any of these psychiatrists or psychologists have gotten their degree from because they do not help and I highly recommend just saving up and spending money on a private psychiatrist this place looks like a nice place and all but they only make you feel crazy and diagnosis you with thing after thing without giving you proper medication they will just prescribe you valium it’s disgusting! Not only that but they can’t even write up your prescriptions right and they mess up dosage and how many pills etc.

And then once they have drugged you up enough with Benzoz they will tell you that you have a month left with their “help” that only makes you worse and when you ask what am I going to do if it’s not going to you they’ll tell you no matter if your homeless on the street they’ll look you in the eyes while your in tears and suffering and they’ll tell you to go find a “private psychologist”

Absolutely horrible place don’t be fooled by the millions they’ve spent on re modelling this place to make it look nice it’s public health, don’t expect anything from them I’ve probably sat in their rooms figuring myself out and recommending medications that might help more than them because the people who studied the brain for 7-9 years couldn’t do anything for me or three of my other friends who go here absolutely disgusting if you want to keep your sanity do not go here.

I am in my final two months with Orygen as you only get two years with them. My case manager is the absolute best person they could have chosen for me. She is so supportive, non judgemental and always leaves me with a choice whether I want to do something or not. I feel heartbroken and I feel like I’m grieving over a loss of a relationship knowing in two months I have to say goodbye to her and I will never be able to talk to her or ask her for advice again it has broken my heart. I find this policy absurd, given the fact a lot of Orygen clients such as I have borderline personality disorder which causes us to have extremely strong bonds with people and we get very distressed and anxious about leaving people. This is really not fair, I can’t complain about orygen as they helped me more than any other service and actually broke through some barriers. I went from being clueless about MH, to know being super self aware of my MH, needs, expectations and what sets me off. I’m practically in remission from psychosis thanks to Orygen. The one thing I hate is this policy, two years is not enough, it took me one year to develop the trust and form a connection with my case manager, to the point at this point in time I am my true self around her not faking anything and she accepts me for who I am and doesn’t try to change me, but that took time, then essentially I had one year to deal with 7 mental diagnosis I have, 3 of them are life long disorders I will never be able to recover from. The rest are low chance of recovery.
To my case manager you know who you are, if you ever read this just know you were my saving grace who saved me from the lists of hell and you showed me true compassion and that I am worth more, no one will ever be able to replace you and I’ll never forget you, maybe one day orygen will take me back, my heart aches every day it’s too hard for me to handle. Thankyou R, you were the best ever. I will miss you dearly so will mocha

I just read Schapelle Corby's memoir and realised some of the tactics used in this and other psych wards is very very similar to what's done in third world prison.

Dr Mark Phelan has been wonderful for my son and our family. Really takes the time and effort with supporting my son, as well as our family.