Oakwood Springs

High quality of care. Clean facilities. Friendly staff. Great food. Very helpful faith-based spiritual group on Sundays. Thank you for all your help! :-)

What can I say about this place? Seriously, a million “thank you”s wouldn’t be sufficient praise for this place. They have done so much to help me. I was hospitalized for two weeks and did partial hospitalization for two more. The therapists as well as other professionals (with the exception of one staff member in the very beginning) went above and beyond. You can tell they really care about how their patients will do once they leave. Not many psychiatric hospitals can honestly say that about themselves. So where was I before I came to Oakwood Springs? I was in a deep depression with barely enough motivation to wake up at all. I was barely existing. I had a manic episode with psychosis and had to be taken to the emergency room. The episode was in July and I’ve felt depressed at varying degrees throughout my life. I am on SSDI because I couldn’t work due to my mental health. I didn’t even have interest in pursuing my hobbies. After about a week of being inpatient, my personality and progress did a total 180. I am almost a completely different person now. The obsessive thoughts don’t plague me like they used to. I no longer think I’d be better off dead. I’m not as anxious. I’m not psychotic anymore. I never in my wildest dreams imagined I’d ever get to this point in my life. The amount of progress I’ve made was far beyond what I wished I could have in my lifetime. I am thriving now and about to go into business for myself. I am back to doing hobbies in my spare time, and I have the emotional capacity to completely engage with them and enjoy them. I am in a much better place now, and I say it was partly my attitude and willingness, but I feel like O.S. met me more than half-way. I have been hospitalized over 10 times, but this might have been my final rodeo after 18 years of living like this. What’s more is that they are open 24/7. If you have an emergency during the day, you might even be able to be picked up by one of their friendly drivers instead of by a police officer. The food isn’t bad either. I want to send a special shout out to my favorite driver and PCA. You both got nice matters cards and should know who you are. I also want to send a thank you to my main two therapists who were assigned to me when I was inpatient and in the 4 hour intensive therapy in PHP. To Kristen and Alisha, you are incredible and have made a tangible and noticeable difference in my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. —Christy