Stories of HOPE
All my life I’ve struggled with deep clinical depression and was diagnosed with Bipolar II only a few years prior. I’d used multiple
substances to try and cope with the emotional and mental trauma that had littered my life since early childhood.
One family’s journey to the benefits of residential treatment for their adult son.
It’s been a year since our son got in the car for the drive to Cincinnati to be admitted to the Lindner Center of HOPE.
Donjeana recalls starting to feel low in August of 2022. She was feeling more and more depressed. She was initially introduced to Lindner Center of HOPE when she admitted to the Adult North unit in February 2023.
Four days after my third suicide attempt, I was admitting to Lindner Center of HOPE’s residential treatment program. We found Lindner Center of HOPE due to recommendations from my stepmom’s contacts.
A testimonial from a father whose daughter benefitted from three levels of stabilization at Lindner Center of HOPE.
At the age of 14, James’ daughter was exhibiting signs of struggling with her mental health.
Art can be a release when you do not have words, according to Dana.
“It can help you let your feelings out. It is a way to convey anger, joy, sadness… Expression of emotion is incredibly important.”
“I want to shout from the rooftop to tell anyone suffering from mental illnesses that miracles can happen. Faith, hope, tenacity, and a positive outlook – combined with the most amazing team of doctors, hospitals, new genetic testing, and safe treatments from the miracle of science and innovation are now available to help us conquer the stigma, helplessness and excruciating suffering from depression and other illnesses to make us whole again.”
Dear Administrators of LCOH and Sibcy House,
We are writing to express, briefly, our most sincere thanks for the gift of hope and life given to our daughter as a result of her stay at Sibcy House last February.
Anna had suffered for 16 years, beginning with a sexual trauma and betrayal by a friend, which she kept hidden from us for 2 years, at the age of 16. She developed a severe eating disorder, which almost killed her and which lasted for most of these years of suffering. During that time, however, her mental health spiraled down dramatically, and by the time she was admitted to Sibcy House, she was diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety, mood disorder, and the eating disorder, and probably more than that.
We are certain that her healing is a miracle resulting from two powerful sources – unceasing prayer…..and…..modern psychiatric medicine and treatment and the outstanding care she received at Sibcy House. We will never be able to adequately express to you how grateful we are for the part that LCOH/Sibcy House has played in Anna’s transformation to life.
Going from a person plagued by all of the above to the consistently happy, grateful, goal-oriented, independent young woman that she is today is nothing but a miracle. Those who were closest to her in her last downward spiral before Sibcy House just sit and stare at her in amazement – they just cannot get over the change, which has lasted now for almost 9 months! There seem to be no ups and downs at all – she is just consistently steady, prospering and full of joy! She jokingly refers to herself as “everybody’s favorite miracle”!
We thank God, from Whom all gifts and goodness flows, for the wonderful and skilled people He put in her life at the perfect time (although it was such a long time for us to wait, watching her suffer for all those years, suffering along with her). We thank everyone at Sibcy House who worked with Anna and we’d love them to know how well she is doing. Anna is now living on her own in D.C. (with our financial support at this time), working M-F (walking dogs, of all things!) and is applying for grad school in fine arts.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Sibcy House staff and benefactors, for your integral, life-saving work in the restoration of our daughter!
“We made a lot of mistakes during this time of trouble, all of them classic and well known. We got bad advice, we got good advice, but the best advice was “get him to the Lindner Center.” When Adam’s problems became apparent and the justice system got involved they treated his issues as a “crime.” Addiction is a brain disease no different than cancer, diabetes, or heart disease. You don’t put sick people in jail, you treat their illness. Crime is a manifestation of the disease and caused by the hold addiction has on an individual.”
“In 2012 I discovered Lindner Center of HOPE, specifically their Sibcy House program. An accurate diagnosis, an intensive treatment stay, and a long-term treatment plan that includes a coach, has changed my life. Lindner Center of HOPE is not like any place I have ever been before; it is a safe place to land. A place where I was treated with respect and the staff supported me.”