The Eating Disorder Program at Beaumont Children’s Hospital is located in Troy, MI at the Hough Center for Adolescent Health. They provide medical monitoring through doctors and nurses, and dietitian appointments. They either work with the therapist you already have, or can refer you to one in the community.
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• When were you there?
2023-2024.
• What level(s) of care did you do (e.g., inpatient, residential, PHP, IOP)? Outpatient
• Does it treat both males and females? If so, is treatment separate or combined? Yes, there is no group treatment so everyone is separate
• If applicable: Do they support the gender identities of transgender and nonbinary people? N/A
• How often do you see a medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist (therapist), nutritionist, nurse, etc? started with twice a week, then once a week, then every other week
• What sort of therapies are used (e.g., DBT, CBT, EMDR, ACT, exposure therapy, somatic experiencing, etc.)? Not sure, there was an ED therapist there for a time but then she left, and they never got a new one.
The whole place felt way more punishing than helpful. They threatened me more than they treated me. I dreaded every appointment. They constantly threatened me with hospitalization or going to a residential facility if I “didn’t comply.” One time, I literally got hospitalized for a week because I didn’t eat a bowl of pasta.
The staff was terrible. Don’t get me started on Dr. *** – I couldn’t stand that woman omg. (flashback to the time she literally compared me to a possessed person, awesome) Nurse practitioners *** and *** were awful too. All 3 would never let me explain myself, they would talk over me, ignore my concerns, and literally twist my words. On top of everything, anything I said was just written off as “the eating disorder talking.” Any question I had they didn’t care to answer because it was “an eating disorder question.” Even when I started getting better and wanted to make choices about my own recovery, I wasn’t allowed to. My mom had full control, and they didn’t listen to me at all. I dreaded my weekly appointments and literally spent so many hours crying in their offices, feeling completely powerless and manipulated. I had so many serious panic attacks in their office.
I had a part time job at the time, and it was basically my only social outlet and source of happiness through the hardest time in my life. But when I wasn’t gaining weight fast enough, they wouldn’t let me work, sometimes for over a month. Losing that was brutal, it did way more harm than good.
The meds they gave me for anxiety were terrible too. One med made me extremely shaky, dizzy, depressed, and so drowsy I’d pass out or feel delusional. They forced me to take it even though it was making me worse, writing off my concerns as me being manipulative. One time I became so drowsy I passed out at home and was asleep for hours.. I ended up missing a meal, and yep… hospitalized again for “noncompliance.” I ended up pretending to take it for months because they wouldn’t listen to me.
This only scratches the surface of all that went on at that place. Honestly, that year was the worst of my life. Eating disorders are serious, sure, but the way I was treated? Terrifying, controlling, and abusive. No teen should have to go through that.
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• When were you there?
2019-2021.
• What level(s) of care did you do (e.g., inpatient, residential, PHP, IOP)? Outpatient
• Does it treat both males and females? If so, is treatment separate or combined? they treat everyone, each individual is seperate, it’s like a doctors office not a group thing.
• If applicable: Do they support the gender identities of transgender and nonbinary people? yes, they helped me get my binder and got me on birth control to help my gender dysphoria, while also hiding it from my parent’s since I wasn’t out yet. Def appreciated that a lot, no other doctor would have done that for me.
• How often do you see a medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist (therapist), nutritionist, nurse, etc? once a week at first, reduced as time goes on.
• What sort of therapies are used (e.g., DBT, CBT, EMDR, ACT, exposure therapy, somatic experiencing, etc.)? there’s an ED therapist on hand but you can get your own separately too. Idk what type, probably dbt.
They were not vegetarian friendly, I found the weight gain very hard, it was a fast rate of gain and they want teens to continue to gain even once reaching a set goal weight. I was pushed to a much higher weight than was necessary in my opinion, made to gain back everything I lost and an additional [number redacted] pounds on top of that. Overall they weren’t the worst, my ED was just very triggered by the agressive weight gain to the point where I attempted su*****, so I don’t have the best memories of it.
Really grateful for the help I received whilst inpatient at Beaumont Hospital.
The nurses were so kind and understanding, the dieticians were so phenomenal. They really understood the difficulties of refeeding and did their best to make it as comfortable as possible. The dieticians ensured meals were as low volume as possible to ease discomfort, they listened to your preferences and challenged you within reason. Definitely recommend.
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