Arianna Duenez had struggled for years in residential treatment facilities in and out of California – becoming addicted to drugs in the process and increasingly expressing suicidal ideation.
    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Ho. Lee. Shit.

      I’ve been reading this over the past few days since you posted it, I’m on chapter 69, and just wanted to thank you for sharing it. This is the most insane mind-fuck, eye opening read I’ve ever read. Even just experiencing this story 2nd hand through the words of the author is absolutely soul crushing. I can’t even begin to imagine what these kids have gone through.

      • KillerTofu@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I know! Someone else shared it and it has really stuck with me. I share it any time it’s relevant because his experience wasn’t that long ago and they aren’t the only ones.

    • otacon239@feddit.de
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      4 months ago

      Also The Program on Netflix. It’s a really well put together documentary made by one of the students at a similar school.

  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Reminds me of Paris Hilton’s experience in Provo where she dealt with assault. Apparently these places are so unregulated, that there’s basically no regulations.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      these places are so unregulated, that there’s basically no regulations.

      Isn’t that just “unregulated”? “Completely unregulated”?

      • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I mean sure, if you wanna split hairs. Maybe underrgulagted was a better choice, but that’s harder to mobile swipe / type.

    • homura1650@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      There is plenty of room to debate tradeoffs in patient care. However, the policy was to perform a check every 15 minutes overnight. Not great for sleep quality and, all else being equal, a net negative for mental health. However, it does prevent a long tail of serious negative outcomes (such as, potentially, this death). There are a bunch of healthcare circumstances where sleep quality is sacrificed in favor of other concerns.

      In this particular case, in addition to all of the normal concerns the facility would have, this girl was:

      • on a new medication
      • nauseous
      • unwell enough that she cut a phone call short to go to bed early (which sounds like was out of character for her)

      Those are all red flags that her condition should be monitored closet than normal.