Very helpful and does her best to help her patients. She is very understanding and just wants the best for you.

Submitted Aug. 28, 2020

Brain dead doctor with absolutely no bedside manner.

Submitted May 23, 2020

Waves of difficult memories...I was in Unit 9 (psychiatric unit) of the QEH in my 20s for a depressive phase of Bipolar Disorder. I was struggling but found comfort in the caring nurses and felt I was getting better. Then on one of my rare meetings with the psychiatrist there, I was quiet and rude because I was in a bad mood so he decided to send me to Hillsborough Hospital for being hard to deal with.I did not want to leave this safe space I had found and cried so hard as I was packing my things and being escorted out of QEH and then taken to Hillsborough. I had never been there but had a very bad feeling about it and my intuition ended up being right. The first night I was there I called a friend on the pay phone crying and a nurse walked by and barked at me “what are you crying for!?” Hmm..not the best feeling to get from someone who’s supposed to be taking care of you.

I felt that none of the staff helped me in any way and every day was torture. I was basically being housed. There was group therapy for an hour once a week and the rest of the time you had to fend for yourself.

One of my only pleasures...I was allowed to do art once a week until someone thought one of my paintings looked “depressing.” So I was thrown into the ‘rubber room’...as we patients called it. It was an empty room with nothing but a mattress on the floor. They had taken away everything I had found comfort in...my books, my music, my art...because I had expressed myself through painting. I never voiced anything about being depressed or suicidal in any way at that point. I wouldn’t have because I just wanted to go home.

I don’t really know why they kept me. Because I was angry and rebelling at the system? Because I was caught smoking marijuana? Did they interpret that as poor mental health? I don’t know.

It’s funny....well not really...I felt bettter when I smoked marijuana and managed to get some once in a while. After the staff found out, I was threatened by 5 male orderlies in front of everyone that they were going to forcibly strip search me if didn’t turn the pot over. Thank God I had some left in my pocket and threw it at them. What if I had smoked it all and had none left??? Yes I would have been forcibly strip searched and left with yet another traumatic episode to deal with. (I do have hope that there can be positive changes to the system because I’ve had a prescription for medical marijuana from my current psychiatrist for the past three years and it has helped me immensely. (I also take other prescription drugs for Bipolar Disorder)

After three months of hell, wishing I could go home for good every second, I finally went on a one of my passes and refused to go back. I was expecting the police to come and get me (that’s why I always went back after passes) but after all this misery I found out that my psychiatrist had lied to me. I was never committed and could have left for good any time. She hadn’t had enough evidence to commit me and lied to keep me there. I’m sure she had her reasons. I’ve thought about getting my hospital records from there just to see what was going on but part of me knows it’s best not to open that Pandora’s box.

That place was making me want to die. A place meant to help me actually ended up being one of the most traumatic experiences of my life and haunts me to this day. Don’t ask me why another patient I knew at Unit 9 slit her wrists and was sent home the next day and I was kept against my will at Hillsborough Hospital for three months for having an attitude???

Do I sound resentful? I’m working on that because I want to enjoy my life and not dwell on the past. But this was my experience and it helps to write and share about it to continue to heal from the trauma. Every time I share about a painful experience in my life, that black ball of anguish in my gut shrinks a little smaller. So if you are still reading... thank you!

Let’s all try to share more of our mental health issues, big or small, to end the stigma. I know that we can continue to improve this situation on PEI and elsewhere so that anyone accessing the system in the future gets the help they need and deserve.

My story is not unique as I have known many others who have suffered so much trying to get help for mental health and addictions issues. I pray that each of us who face the darkness can somehow hold on to hope and a belief that things can and will get better...I have to remind myself of that at times or I would not survive.

Submitted April 20, 2020

I’ve had nothing but the utmost worst experiences, the most evil human I’ve ever encourntered hands down. I’ve heard nothing but nightmares from other patients. Evil

Submitted March 24, 2019

This DR is a pill pushing Quack and needs to be BARRED from faking MENTAL HEALTH at the QEH for YEARS. SHE gives out her MEDICAL COCKTAILS like they are CANDY ...ADIVAN is her fave ADDICTIVE prescription and don't EVEN get me started on her anti psychotics ...she LOVES PRESCRIBING RISPERIDONE,,,which if you are NOT PSYCHOTIC causes SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, SEIZURES AND MUSCLE SPASMS...WAY TO GO,,,YOU MURDER!
YOU KILLED MY DANNY,,,,MY ANGEL !!!!!!!

Submitted Jan. 31, 2018

Terrible, such a waste to think the tragedy surrounding little boy could of been averted.

Submitted Dec. 4, 2017

Given a recent cardiac condition my medical team threw this nut job at me as to healing therapy. Horrible disposition, pompous and insulting to family Walk away

Submitted Sept. 23, 2017

Dr. Stewart helped me tremendously with all of my problems. She asks the hard questions and comes to the root of the problem. She respects a patient's privacy when family members try to meddle (people who just do not understand mental health issues). I am now so much better than I was before I went to see her. It took a long time and a lot of patience on both our parts, but in the end, she addressed all of my symptoms and I'm, as I said, much better. There is no way of making depression and anxiety disappear completely, because there are situational symptoms one still must deal with. In a nutshell, I really respect and appreciate Dr. Stewart.

Submitted June 27, 2017

Very kind and obviously cares a lot about her patients and their families. Was most helpful.

Submitted Feb. 28, 2017

I don't think this doctor could get stupider if she tried. I really don't. She's a danger to her patients. Complete and utter disregard to family members, refusing to communicate with family members, constantly putting her patient in danger. I wouldn't trust this one to diagnose a duck!

Submitted June 24, 2015