Collin Gosselin Says He Was Physically Restrained, Sedated During 21-Month Stay at Mental Health Clinic

“Within seconds, five or six staff members were on top of me,” he recalled. “Hands grabbed my arms, my legs, my shoulders. They flipped me over onto my stomach and someone forced me down into the mattress while another person pinned my legs to the bed so I couldn’t kick.”

“Someone yanked my pants down,” he continued. “Heat rushed to my face immediately. ‘Ah, just another day at the office,’ one of them joked. A couple of the others laughed.”

Moments later, the medication took effect. As Collin put it, “My mind slowed to a crawl. There was no fighting it. My mind went blank, my body still. I felt like a candle that had been blown out with the lightest sigh, and I was plunged into darkness.”

A spokesperson for the facility said in the book that they could not comment on specific patients, but said that “at Fairmount Behavioral Health System, every day our staff strives to maintain a total therapeutic environment through individualized treatment for each patient. Comprehensive patient-oriented activities include group therapy, family therapy, allied therapy and educational services.”

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