Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center - Dr. James J. Wright Building

“I am feeling very emotional today deeply missing this location and the staff who used to work here at 1700. I got very lucky in some aspects of being a client here with a great team. AA Dual diagnosis group leader (Brian), LGBTQIA+ group leader (Miss Schaefer), a great care coordinator (Kaiden) and my first therapist (Justin) was great! Also, my therapist Jailyn was awesome as well! These days, this location is just not the same and I’m feeling very lucky to have been apart of this location as a client back in the golden days with certain staff on board! I’m sorry to say, but now this location is just simply not efficient or effective anymore in my opinion due to this location taking on way too many clients. I was very excited to have my very first therapy session with my brand new therapist only to find out that she was double booked; being double booked as a staff member here is kind of the norm now and the clients suffer gravely for it. A couple of years ago, I would constantly hear, “sorry! Our one hour session today is 15 minutes because I’ve been double booked all day…” I sincerely miss being at this location mostly because of the people I met. Clients would constantly gravitate towards me inside and outside and they would talk to me, open up to me, tell me their problems, ask for advice, we would listen to music together… etc. I really miss AA dual diagnosis group and I deeply miss the good old days of the LGBTQIA+ group with Miss Schaefer leading; I am afraid to say that the new girl leading the LGBTQIA+ group just is not cutting it and I really don’t think that this new girl even likes me or cares for me that much because she has ignored me a few times and tends to favor other people over me. This location really needs a class on healing and meditation and this place desperately needs a department filled with knowledgeable staff helping clients detox off their meds (safely) if and when the client has been misdiagnosed and put on medication for literally no reason all because the client was misunderstood and pushed through the system way to quickly… which happens all of the time. I hope that I have better luck with you all 1700 here in the spring and summer time and I’d really like to see a thriving LGBTQIA+ group again as opposed to the empty room like it is now. I really miss being there 1700, but I have so much sadness and pain and trauma when dealing with the black haired security officer there and Dr. Salama. So quick to medicate me and handcuff me and lock me away. So sad and shameful. I would do a fantastic job leading a class on healing and meditation and music therapy and I know for a fact that so many clients would benefit and be extremely grateful and even feel better! As opposed to just being told they need shots and pills without even truly getting to know the person and their history and story. This place needs incense, singing bowls, crystals, healing music/frequencies, books, journals and healers… not people who just blindly follow orders and are trained to be just like everyone else. I feel like common sense, gut instincts, intuition and spiritual knowledge/open mindedness is lacking in not just this location, but all mental health locations. The most help I’ve ever gotten from the mental health industry was when a man named Matt had me watch The Secret inside of Options. That is sad and scary. This industry cannot continue to go on like this; something must change soon. I miss the good old days of 1700…not what it is now. Please stop double booking your poor and hardworking staff members; it’s not fair to treat staff and clients with such disrespect.”

“I've always received care here with no problems and decided to come back here because the people are friendly, the staff is helpful and they will work with you on your unique situation to get you back to feeling normal and living a great life that we are all meant to enjoy!”

“If I could zero give them star this place is awful first all they don’t communicate when reschedule 72 hour advance to cancel your appointment instead you wait like week for appointments new patients than tell time they scheduled and come three early when they got power think they calling the shoot what time on there time like they care all they care about is pay the check $35 hour.”

“If I could give less stars I would. Im not from here, me and my family moved down about 8 months ago. You have to go do an orientation with them and pretty much get asked about your entire life. They also drug test you on the first day, They literally treat everyone as if they are a drug addict. I wanted to see a psychiatrist and I was forced to see some specialized nurse who basically disregarded everything I was saying, for instance I told her about my sleep issues and also explained I had a sleep study done a couple years ago and I dont have sleep apnea the sleep study revealed I have RLS (restless legs syndrom) The idiot put on my discharge paperwork that I has sleep apnea. I filled out medical release forms and everything because my previous doctor had me on several different medications to finally dial in the care I needed back home. She completely disregarded all of that and put me on what she thinks will help. It was very clear she wanted to stay away from any of the actual medication that helps with my ADHD and GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER. Please listen to everyone else and do not go here. They will not listen to your issues and needs and for some very strange reason they will lie and say you have things you dont like for me it was Sleep Apnea. There has to be better care than this in indiana somewhere. If you go here they will make up a whole profile on you and make it harder when you go to seek help elsewhere. DO NOT MESS WITH THESE CLOWNS. At best they are uneducated emotionless people without empathy for thier clients. I Won't Go Back ever again.”