Farnham Road Hospital

Farnham Road Hospital 2026-01-05 Person 1 5 0

From a nervous system perspective, this environment is profoundly dysregulating. Patients are not supported in regulation, and many staff members themselves do not appear regulated. Placing your care in the hands of people who lack nervous-system awareness can be deeply harmful. From a spiritual perspective, this place felt like Hell on Earth to me. At Farnham Hospital, I experienced coercion and intimidation — being pressured to go against my own nature, including forced injections. Medications, including hormone medication, were taken away, creating severe imbalance, inner turbulence, and replaced with drugs chosen for me rather than with me. Patients are often treated as lesser rather than as human beings and equals. Every patient has a story. Every human being has the capacity for healing — spiritually, emotionally, and physically. This is not an environment that supports that kind of healing. I was a patient here in 2022 and again in 2024. I will not return. The one exception, in my experience, was the psychiatrist Dr. Yoganathan. He listens — and he expects to be listened to in return. There is a mutuality there that matters. I don’t believe most people working in medical services have bad intentions. The problem is systemic. It’s societal. It’s governmental. Too often, the approach becomes: medicate the patient rather than understand them. Many patients leave worse than they arrived. Your life is your own. You are the one driving the vehicle of your nature and your healing. Don’t hand that power over to systems or people who may harm you. Choose care. Choose discernment. Spread love, not hate. Aura.

Farnham Road Hospital 2025-01-19 Person 1 5 0

Trying to get access to my son, while he has been sectioned has been absolute hell. Doctors fail to engage with family members before making treatment decisions on admission. Probably a mistake made there. Parking is generally over full. Receptionist are 'jobs worths' who will try to prevent you gaining access. One said I should park "off site". Not so easy when the site is near a railway station and local street parking is permit holders only. If you are a family member, shout until someone does something. Heads should roll.

Farnham Road Hospital 2023-08-21 Person 1 5 0

I've been here for four days with no leave and no proper explanation for why I'm here. The ambulance crew just came into my hostel one morning and brought me here. The food is so terrible I wouldn't feed it to a rabbit. I can hear patients screaming inside their rooms and the staff don't do anything. I'm dumbfounded, most of the patients are still having a great time regardless.

Farnham Road Hospital 2023-06-30 Person 1 5 0

I was sectioned for having mania and psychosis on 26 November 26 2022. Surrey Police smashed in the door to my ground floor flat and it was left open during the whole of my 3 week stay at Farnham Road Hospital. I was held in the assessment suite which was basically a prison cell for at least 72 hours and during this time I was not allowed out for fresh air. Some of the staff made cruel personal comments to me obviously based on information that the NHS hold about me. They clearly don't understand what a mental health crisis is. When I was finally taken up to the Magnolia Ward I turned on the shower in my room before getting in it and boiling hot was was coming out of it. I would have been scolded and scarred for life if I hadn't tested the water first . One mental health worker actually said that anyone with mental illness should start the day with an ice cold shower to 'snap' them out of it. What on earth?! Sometimes the staff would promise that you would be allowed out later that day for some fresh air then wouldn't let you out at all. Lots of false promises were made and one night they didn't give me the medication that I need because I was 'asleep', they should have woken me up to take it. The Magnolia Ward's staff should all be struck off for incompetence and the Ward should be shut down. It is not fit for purpose.

Farnham Road Hospital 2023-03-20 Person 1 5 0

I was section in December 2022 for psychosis was laughed at by the staff not aloud out for fresh air all the time I was there for given another patient medication and told to spit it out my family could never get hold of staff to see how I was and then released while still in a psychotic episode so need to being section 10 days later and I was very scared and suicidal but ended up at Woking hospital and was very nice there

Farnham Road Hospital 2022-07-16 Person 5 5 0

Very friendly service

Farnham Road Hospital 2020-11-06 Person 2 5 0

June - September 2019 sectioned on a section 3 for Bipoler Disorder. I was frequently ‘restrained’ and Injected with medication, dragged to seclusion, sat in countless Dr meetings for my view never taken seriously. I was deemed treatment resistant . Newsflash I wasn’t treatment resistant, I have responded perfectly well to Lithium which was not offered by this hospital who favour antispychotics such as Olanzapine which makes you gain a few stone at least. The consultant was wonderful but the nursing staff were jaded, cynical, rude and talked to me like a lesser citizen, I could name a few who did this (Magnolia Ward) but my view might not be published. The physical surroundings are great, very modern and clean with some activities, but this hospital really needs to Change the way they treat young women. Older men are treated with far more compassion and understanding and women always labelled with either Pd or mania. Granted I was manic but the hospital made it so much harder for me to regain my life outside. I am still traumatised by the memories of being pinned to the floor and jabbed in the arse, and all the other memories of being in Magnolia. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND but Re physical appearances this is the best hospital you can be in being built 5 yrs ago.