What Do You Do if Youre in a Treatment Center and They Wont Let You Leave.?

Question by danie rae: what do you do if youre in a treatment center and they wont let you leave.?
my brothers girlfriend is in az in an eating disorder center and they are lying to her telling her that her family isnt trying to help her and they need to keep her and she cant leave and theyre medicating her. how do we help her from home in idaho?
ok no she is of age and has been doing exceptionally well in the program until the facility found out that her church had given them 20,000 to help her she was doing well enough to leave her parents are on the same page as us this question is coming from all of us
and another thing they have her on trazadone and she went there voluntarily to fix her problems
also we talked to an eating disorder helpline who said that they should not be medicatiing her, that the goal is to get her off of all the meds and help her deal with the issue herself. she has completed the program with 100 percent in everything coming from her and the staff once the staff fund out they had another 20,000 towards her they suddenly found all these reasons to keep her
appearantly i need more details she went because she wanted to her parents were against it at first she is 20 years old and has been there for a month now
on top of all of that if she wanted to leave she would need her id which the facility has locked up with her personal belongings and isnt willing to return to her she is in az and home is id. so even if she grew the balls to just walk out the facility has her plane ticket and id

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Answer by Senorita Nay
She could be a danger to herself, maybe that is why she can not leave, can you try to call her and ask to speak to the staff. maybe they can tell you their opinion, and you can help her with why she must stay.
If she should leave because the treatment center is not permitting here to leave and might be hurting her or keeping here against better judgement and are not looking out for here best interest then by all means call the police.

Answer by essentiallysolo
if you are only hearing her side of the story, then you have to realize that she will likely say anything to get sympathy. having to work on her issues that caused her eating disorder is hard and uncomfortable work, and she may not want to do the work. but at this stage, if they are medicating her, they are doing so because she is likely a danger to herself and it would be unethical to release her under those circumstances. as she is your brother’s girlfriend and not legally attached to him in any way, neither he nor you can call the center for information, by law they cannot tell you anything. your best bet is to contact her family for information and see if you can get a full picture of what is going on with her. otherwise, there isn’t anything you can do.

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