Have You All Ever Wanted???

[4maxnrob]

To Work In A Mental Hospital Just To See The People And How They Adapt? I Just Wish I Could Work There For A Month Or So, Just To Grasp The Concept Of How People With Real Problems Act..and Change At That....

[Shancopp]

I worked in one for 12 years. I cared alot about my patients and having family members who have been affected by mental illness, I don't appreciate you calling it "acting wierd." Grasp that.

[hunny]

No, not me, i tend to take on others problems.. And i am to empathetic.

[4maxnrob]

i mean not "act weird" but act differently then everyone around us...sorry i offended you in that way but i would just like to see how different they are and how they adapt to life....

[earnhardt1]

when i was younger i vol. at a state hospital (most were not able to do anything for themselves)... where my aunt worked...
it was the same one that the first silence of the lambs was filmed in parts of it.... it was a great learning exp.....

[turbob]

what part of adapting do you want to know about? The guy who bit his fingers off and threw then at an intern? The patients that were pushed in their wheelchairs by other clients into the underground tunnels and left there? The lady who spend her entire day inching around the edges of the rug in the dayroom? Or the "transfer by bus pass" - where staff would take clients who's money ran out to the Greyhound bus station and put them on a bus to Cleveland with $5 in their pocket - KNOWING there was no one at the other end to help them? All of this happened at the old state hospital on broad st. in columbus when I worked there. How nice of you to want to work there so you could be entertained.

[ljtaylor]

One question...why in the world would u ask something like this? I am just disgusted by the OP.

[earnhardt1]

yea it wasnt something someone should do for fun, these are peoples lives and they cant control the things they do

[4maxnrob]

Okay Ladies, Lets try and fix this...I am 22 years old...I have only lived so much okay!!! I have always wanted to learn about peoples adaptations to different forms of problems/possibilities, now if you dont get what I was trying to post then you all have issues. I would love to work in a state hospital. I would love to volunteer at one. I just want to see how people adapt to a life change. How they see life after how they were so that is my perspective. If you want to fight and make a fuss about a simple question then so be it....i dont care....i just stated a question on if you would like to..not meaning in a bad way so HOORAH

[hotwheelstx]

When I was in my 20's one of my first jobs was working for one of our local mental institutions. I for one am insulted that anyone would call these people "weird". They have true mental problems they can't control. I myself being in a wheelchair have been called "weird, mentally challenged, mute, deaf, slow". I am not any of those things.....I just can't use my legs.

While I worked in one I truly felt sorry for those people. Most never had visitors, hurt themselves almost daily, were put in isolation for things they truly didn't understand.

I can't understand why anyone would call these people "weird"......They are truly sick and they do need care, kindness, compassion.

[4maxnrob]

I Am Not Calling Anyone "weird"!! I Have Worked In An Emergency Room And Am Going To College To Become A Nurse And I Might Have Gotten My Words Mixed But I Have Family Members Who Are Sick And I Have Tried To Learn About Them So If You Got It In An Offensive Way I Am Sorry And I Tried To Fix It Earlier So Read On Please...

[Shancopp]

If you are going to school to be a nurse, you'll soon enough get to do your psych rotation. There you go....you'll get to see.

[ahippiechic]

I worked in one a for about 2 years, and I cannot how anyone would want to work there for entertainment value.

[BeanieLuvR]

No, not me, i tend to take on others problems.. And i am to empathetic.

Same here.

[Shancopp]

Would you like to know about the guy who's mother made him screw her for years and years and is now so f'ed up he is self mutilating (esp. to his privates) or the man whose dad whacked him in the head with a sledgehammer? How about the 70 yr old man who has been in the state hospital since age 13, put there for cussing, smoking a cig and liking girls. Now totally institutionalized. THe lady who had 2 sons and wanted a girl and when baby boy #3 came along, tried TO MAKE it a girl..... yes, by attempting to "chop" it off. She now thinks wild animals are under the floor of her room every nite. The guy who was picked up hitchhiking naked down I-65? The old man who murdered his wife, cut her up and buried her in the back yard? The teen age boy who's mom made him kill grandma with a cross bow in her sleep, dismember her, feed most of her to the dog, burn and bury the rest and then live off the dead womans SS checks for a year til they got caught? (there's a book out about that one). I could go on and on and on.


eta: The shock value kicks in when you are wrestling them on the ground because they just knocked a fellow staff member unconcious with a shower rod or when you are trying to take down a 6'4" 300 lb man hell bent that HE WILL SMOKE even if he's on smoking restriction. Ever had a full coke can flung at you by a grown man who'd rather rip your head off than look at you? I have. Ever seen a dining room table thrown across a day room? I have.

Have fun...it's soooo entertaining.! note sarcasm here.

[Shancopp]

I'd like to add alot of the females went off the deep end (can't think of a better way to put it) after having kids. PPD is a dx of most of the gals.

[4maxnrob]

dont you all have interests? i mean something that you have always wanted to see or learn about? you know when your trying to discover who you are and what you want to do and see in your lives? that is what i am trying to do...i believe that if i would work in a mental institution or at least volunteer i could see if this is really the field that i want to pursue...psychology...people with mental disorders..and such....

[turbob]

I Am Not Calling Anyone "weird"!! I Have Worked In An Emergency Room And Am Going To College To Become A Nurse And I Might Have Gotten My Words Mixed But I Have Family Members Who Are Sick And I Have Tried To Learn About Them So If You Got It In An Offensive Way I Am Sorry And I Tried To Fix It Earlier So Read On Please...

You are going to be a nurse? Good for you! May I suggest some sensitivity training - cause if you think people with metal illnesses are "weird" you are NOT going to last long at any nursing job. That being said - I realize I jumped on you really quickly, but I have a hard time believing that using the term weird, and stating you think it would be entertaining to work with mental patients was just getting words mixed up.

[tigger4]

Sorry, having had relatives in psych hospitals and having been in one myself when I was much younger I find you fascination to be sick and weird.

[4maxnrob]

i am sensative...my dad is sick...he has had two back surgeries, two open hearts, a pleural effusion, he is disabled, and doesnt have anyone but me and my mom to fall back on..i have suffered in my life as for it has only begun...no i was not abused..maybe mentally...not physically...i have been overweight at 352 pounds...i have been called names....i have been used...abused by others....i have been taken for granted many many times, but i have tried and tried to fix it and i have gotten places. i am now at 240 pounds..i am married, have a wonderful wonderful 22 month old...i have an awesome MIL and FIL and B/SIL who love me and care about me, i have two brothers and one sister who at least talk to me, and I have the strength to keep myself going while my husband in thousands of miles away from me and our family...so sensativity...i have it, sometimes bottled up...but its there...hidden....but there...

[buttrfli]

Being the parent of a child with intellectual disabilities, I think the first post was in bad taste, but I have to tell myself that the OP is young and I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt and believe that it was just a case of bad wording. (I refuse to believe there are people out there that would want to do something like that just for fun)

That being said, I wouldn't want to work in a psych ward unless it was something I was interested in as far as my career goes (which I truly hope is what the OP meant) I have no desire to see how people with mental illness' behave just for the heck of it. I deal with it on a daily basis in my real life and I definitely don't want to do it for a living.

Like someone else said... if you are going to nursing school, your time will come where you will get the opportunity to do your psych rotation and then you'll be able to decide if thats something you want to deal with.

[earnhardt1]

i must say after voulteering when i was younger i was 13-16 and i saw some really bad shit..... my grama worked at a state hospital in pa and was picked up by a patient and slammed off the floor and choked until she was almost dead... my aunt was the one i worked with she now suffers from a neckand back injury and trust me she is not a little woman at all. they had transported a patient to the hospital and had to have staff there and he got up from teh bed and threw her across the room and then went and jumped on her neck. these are ppl who on a "normal" day were very sweet and loveable but the moment they have a bad memory or thought look the hell out

[karefree]

4maxnrob, I can't say that I have ever wanted to do that but I am sure I have wanted to do some things that other might take offense to. You can't please everyone. It is good to know that.

[ahippiechic]

Closed at the OP's request