Former patients of Scotland’s oldest children’s psychiatry hospital have talked about the culture of cruelty among nursing staff.

When he was admitted to Sky House at an expert NHS unit in Glasgow, he was a teenager, the BBC disclosure told some nurses that he was called “pathetic” and “disgusting” – and even his suicide Made fun of the efforts.

“It was almost the same as I was treating like an animal,” a young patient, being treated for anorexia, said.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde stated that it was “incredibly regret” and started two inquiries in the allegations exposed by the BBC investigation.

In the program, the makers said while talking to 28 former patients BBC disclosure children on psychiatry ward Circulation.

One said that 24-Bed Psychiatry Hospital, which sits in the Stobhill Hospital ground in Glasgow, was like “hell”.

He said, “I say that the culture of the nursing team was quite toxic. Many of them were quite cruel to be honest,” he was quite cruel. “

Young people admitted between 2017 and 2024 told the program that the nurses quickly resorted to force, in which physical restraint and patients were dragged into the corridors, causing injuries and hurting them.

One said that she wanted the police to be called after the alleged attack, but feared that she would be treated badly.

Others reported over-use of drug and sedative injections to make the employees a quiet change, leaving patients such as the “walking corpse”.

Some patients stated that they were punished for being unwell, which was designed to clean their own blood from self-loss events.

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Sky House, which was opened in 2009, accepts children between the ages of 12 and 18 who usually occur at the crisis point.

Most are detained under the Mental Health Act, which means they cannot leave until the doctors can decide that they are discharged.

The BBC started an investigation after informing a young patient about his treatment in the unit.

Many other cases were reported soon.

Kara spent more than two years in the unit from the age of 16, being treated for anorexia.

He was stopped more than 400 times in 18 months in review of medical records shown by BBC.

He was often abandoned with injuries and on one occasion a group of hair was extracted.

“It hurts you. You can’t forget it,” he said.

Five nurses can be included in stopping someone on a bed or floor physically preventing if they were threatened to others or themselves.

Guidelines say that restrictions should be used only as a final measure, when all other D-signs strategies are over.

Kara, now 21, sometimes sometimes he would have to stop to prevent self-loss, but it is said that most of his restraints could have been avoided if the employees first used “as the first port of the call” to use restraint ” Tried to talk to him instead.

He said that in 2021, a restraint provoked him and shook him.

“He placed me down the neck on the floor,” Kara said.

“Quite scary, this man is hovering over you, holding you down. He was left around my neck in the grip of his hand.”

On another occasion, Kara’s medical notes are revealed, felt that he was beaten up after the same nurse was pushed on the floor.

Kara had asked the police to call, only later to change his mind.

She revealed that it was because she was scared of the result.

“I thought they could already treat me worse,” he said.

When Jenna was 16 from Invertus, she was suffering from depression, a food disease and started self-dying.

The nearest teenage psychiatry unit was in Dundi, but had no beds and was sent to Sky House.

“It was hell, like a gel, like the atmosphere,” Jenna said.

Jena spent about nine months in the unit.

He was being fed through a nasogastric (NG) tube for anorexia, a common but aggressive treatment for malnourished people, which involves tearing a tube through the nose in the stomach.

Sometimes she is stopped for this, but she says that the way employees have administered this treatment, she has hurt her.

“Sometimes they just used to come to me and grab my arms and take me away,” he said.

“I only needed many nurses.”

He said that sometimes the employee gets so fat with him that he would have been bleeding and hurt.

“It was a kind of subtle punishment to teach me a lesson.”

Self-disinterest behavior was a feature in the lives of almost all patients who spoke to the BBC.

He claimed that nursing staff often recalls a 15 -minute examination on patients, which gives opportunities to hurt themselves.

Jena and Kara told the manifestation that there were opportunities they were self-realizers and would be built to clean their own blood from the walls and floors.

Jena said: “I remember the staff member said,” You are disgusting, as disgusting, you need to clean it “. It made me feel really terrible.”

Kara said that the staff would sometimes be careless with his NG feed and distributed the liquid very fast, causing it to vomit.

She said that she would be made to make himself sick.

Kara said: “They will wipe me, and I would be made to wipe the floor. It felt like a punishment, as if I have done it on the purpose.

“I just felt as if I was constantly punished for things.”

Stephanie was in Sky House for several admissions suffering from depression since 2020, when she was 16 years old.

He said that he was left with trauma from his time.

“The nurses never really treated you care or compassion,” he said.

“Instead of asking you what is wrong, they put you on the floor and inject you with the medicine.”

On one occasion Stephanie alleged that he was beaten up by a staff member, who was disappointed to refuse to take the shower.

Stephanie said: “The nurse got angry with me.

“He then pulled me from the bed with his feet, and turned on a shower, and put me in the shower with his clothes. And then the bus went and left.

“At that time I felt that it is normal. Everyone else was really getting the same treatment.”

Jane Hesleop is a retired NHS chief nurse who spent his career in Child and Adolate Mental Health Services and reviewed the evidence of BBC.

“It’s derogatory, it’s completely wrong,” he said.

“If it happened that the young man described, it is absolutely and completely unacceptable.”

Ms. Helop said that it “some of these employees have lost some of their limits”.

AB is autistic and was admitted to Sky House at the age of 14 when she was self-loss and suicide.

She was there for two and a half years and says that she was fed up with employees, some of which could be orally derogatory.

On one occasion, he said that he was mocked for self-loss.

AB said, “The nurse came to me and like almost a kind of smile, and said ‘You are pathetic, like look at yourself’.

“It sometimes feels like a bullying. At the point where I just wanted to hurt myself.

“I felt it true that if other people are seeing me as pathetic, I am pathetic.”

AB and her family believe that she was a hypocritical in Sky House.

He said: “A lot of patients were like moving corpses, I was included.

“Like a long time we were seduced only at the point where I think our personality was slow.”

Jena said that when the patients were in crisis, the employees would use intramuscular sedative injections.

Emergency medicine should be given only as the last remedy.

Jenna said: “First without trying to talk to me, or calm me, they will go straight to give one (injection).

“I think it was to be honest so that they could make an easy change, while all their patients were seduced in a way.”

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde stated that the drug was reviewed in 2023 and it changed the way to administer the drug.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clide Medical Director Dr. Scott Davidson said he found the allegations “very difficult to hear” and accepted that there are examples where care is “below the level we will expect for our youth”.

“In the light of these experiences and accounts of other patients, complete review of the quality of care has been initiated,” he said.

“We have also asked for an independent review of the unit.”

The Health Board said that it has made several improvements in patient care including recruitment of staff and training of safe-hold.

It admitted that Sky House faced staffing challenges in the past, which meant the agency and the bank staff worked in the unit.

A statement said: “It was not ideal because he lacked experience in these -students units and the complexities of young people were being taken care of in Sky House.”

It said that action has been taken to address the staffing levels since then.

The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has visited Sky House six times since 2017.

The main issues raised in the BBC investigation are not included in any of its published reports.

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