Children’s Psychiatric Hospital (Covington, KY)

I just cannot believe I haven’t found people raising hell about this place.

I was there in 1990 around the time I turned 17, and almost all the complaints I’ve seen about “hospitals” in the “New Info” forum also went on at CPH. This place is still around under the name NorthKey.

They did use a 4-point (possibly 5-point) restraint device called a “boat” quite frequently. When a kid got put in the “boat”, the staff would show it to us on a monitor screen to make an example out of them and warn us of what was in store for us if we didn’t “behave.”

We were also deprived of food and sleep.

On about my second day there, they took me into the examining room and placed a needle in my arm, telling me it was for a “test.” But after about a minute, I passed out. I woke up with severe diarrhea. Obviously they were drugging me with something and lying about it. Liars they are.

The full name of it was Children’s Psychiatric Hospital of Northern Kentucky. It was in the city of Covington, near the border with the suburb of Fort Wright, on Farrell Drive.

On the Internet, I read that it was run by a for-profit corporation. I don’t know if it’s officially for-profit, but they committed insurance fraud to keep me locked up.

I believe I was there from May 8 to September 18 of 1990. I turned 17 while I was there.

If they want to sue me for exposing them, I should be the one suing those liars for false imprisonment and more.

First day I was there, I got pummeled by the guards for not going to bed on time.

For the record, I ended up in CPH because I got expelled from a Catholic high school, and the school threatened to file truancy charges if I didn’t enter CPH.

How is getting expelled from a private school a symptom of a psychiatric disorder? It isn’t. People get expelled all the time who are as sane as can be.