McCallum Place Eating Disorder Center

"McCallum Place has been life changing for me. It is by far the greatest place I've ever worked and full of so many wonderful, caring people. There's a lot of great improvements happening and even more coming. I'm happy to be part of it!!!"

"This place was the worst experience for my mental health treatment and made me worse. I went in and was very suicidal and begged to be sent to a psychiatric ward in a hospital bc I felt unsafe. Instead, they kept me on 24/7 surveillance there, and then sent me home to do PHP when they knew I had a bad home life that contributed to my ED. They then released me when COVID hit in March 2020, despite my begging to stay because I was not recovered enough and felt very much still sick. Then when I relapsed worse than I was when I went in the first time, they refused to accept me back and claimed I did not fit their criteria. They basically told me I wasn’t sick enough despite being worse off than the first time I went in. They also continued to raise my dose of Prozac to the highest amount and I went manic because the psychiatrists are incompetent. I needed a mood stabilizer. Do not go here and do not bring your child here. I genuinely could have and should have sued them."

"It’s great to work for an organization that feels like a family! We have a wonderful team and everyone is always focused on what is best for the patient."

"ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED. As a past patient at McCallums who is struggling with BED, I am warning you about this terrible eating disorder “care” center. McCallums doesn’t “treat” any other eating disorder but severe anorexia. Even saying that they DO treat anorexia is generous overstatement of what they do. If you have BED or bulimia, please look for another eating disorder center. The only treatment McCallums provides is force feeding you crazy amounts of food and over weight “restoring” you. This is counter productive to the treatment of BED or bulimia. Almost all reviews stating that McCallums “saved their lives” are patients who are were severely anorexic. The only way McCallums has “helped” any patient, is by giving them a crazy high dose of olanzapine, a medication only prescribed for the weight gain, a side effect of the medication. Lastly, do not believe the photoshopped pictures of happy children standing in front of McCallum Place. I can assure you, no patient in this wreck of a treatment center looks like that."

"This place is extremely messed up. I was there in 2021 and was given unhealthy amounts of antidepressants, and they give Zyprexa (an antipsychotic) to EVERY patient there. (They claim it’s to help people with “anxiety”, but its just used for rapid weight gain.) antipsychotics on non-psychotic people is extremely harmful and it actually INDUCED a psychotic episode even with previously never been psychotic. They put me on extreme amounts of Zoloft which my family later learned was incredibly damaging to my brain and now I can never take SSRI medication again. The doctors, dietitians, and therapists bluntly lie to you. Kids we’re having panic attacks and the staff didn’t EVER step in to help, I remember 3 girls holding their friend down (she asked them to) because she was having uncontrollable spasms in her arms and couldn’t stop hitting herself. Absolutely NO staff was paying attention to help. All of the people I was closest with relapsed after discharge. (Including myself.) Long story short, this facility is corrupt and doesn’t deserve the title “recovery center”, because all they care about it extreme weight gain. When I was discharged I weighed TWENTY POUNDS overweight. This place is pure insanity. Even after 3 years I haven’t changed my mind."