Nieke L

Tara - gives good service as a governmental hospital however there are problems

I am very grateful to have had a safe place during my suicidal ideation at Ward 4 and Ward 5 with seven other members. Their DBT program is helpful and the clinical psychologist I saw was good - however I want to warn people against how Diagnoses are handed out at Tara - we all received Narcissistic Personality Disorder as a diagnosis and most of our previously diagnosed mood disorders fell away. This has left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I believe ethically it is very dangerous what they are doing there by having given out the SAME diagnosis to all 8 patients there. As a studying psychology student currently I find it highly disturbing - my psychologist outside of Tara whom I have seen for a year completely disagrees with the diagnosis. Also with Hashimotos: the doctor did not possibly understand the mental health complications even with diet that could have been exasperating my depression and anxiety symptoms - so If you are looking for nuanced care that is holistic where you get acute individual attention that won't happen there.