Current Events > My new job has me visit a behavioral health unit daily

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It's a little like One Flew Over...
in some regards but mostly just people in their late teens and early twenties with self harm wounds who need someone to help them out.

It's kinda like jail too. Which I'm sure freaks some of the people admitted out. Especially said kids when they end up hanging out with the homeless dude that had a psychotic episode.

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When I interned at a hospital for IT, I had to repair a PC in the mental ward. That place is locked down and smelled like piss. They gave them the worst PCs as people would frequently break them too.

One of my fellow interns forgot to bring his ID tag with him so they wouldn't let him leave until the head of the IT department came up and confirmed he was one of hers. That was funny (for us, not him).

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I've seen more piss on floors in cardiac units than BH to be honest.

Those bedside urinals aren't exactly made to sit on the ground in stasis.

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I've been to two different psych wards. I can tell you that an issue with many of them is that they don't have separate units based on actual severity. That's how the second one I've been to operates. Those aforementioned people in their late teens and early twenties would just be put in a tranquility unit, and it feels less like a complete mess.

It is very much like jail though, yes.

TheLastHero posted...

I've been to two different psych wards. I can tell you that an issue with many of them is that they don't have separate units based on actual severity. That's how the second one I've been to operates. Those aforementioned people in their late teens and early twenties would just be put in a tranquility unit, and it feels less like a complete mess.

It is very much like jail though, yes. You can only eat when it's breakfast, lunch or dinner time, and the food is awful. You can't watch TV when they tell you not to. You have to attend group therapy multiple times throughout the day.

It's why many people who want to kill themselves don't actually bother saying anything. They just go ahead and do it. Because those inpatient centers are just going to make them feel worse

I get that. It's another circuit for most of the doctors and they just send people out with the same shit when they "feel better" or just figure out how to act to get out.

I just deliver meds from outpatient so I have nothing to say and if I did it wouldn't be professional.

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Glad you're here.

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