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Basildon Mental Health Unit 2019-01-26 Person 1 5 0

I was admitted here in December 2016 4 days after the birth of my first child, it was the worst place I could have gone to, the staff had no compassion and basically just left you to suffer doing nothing all day, I remember laying on a sofa all day everyday and not once did any staff member ask me how I was, I met some lovely people in there and we all supported each other more than the professionals! I wasn’t aloud to go to my bedroom to get a new sanitary pad as they couldn’t be bothered to open the bedrooms at the other end of the unit. I was leaking milk obviously as I just gave birth,and wasn’t even aloud to go and get my breast pads so I had to sit there and cover up my top as it was soaking wet! Disgusting place with appalling staff, should be shut down completely! It’s meant to be a safe place but it really doesn’t feel like that .