Ask a psychiatric/hospital security guard...

[Bob Kelso]

• Can't say, it doesn't come up that often really.
  

Sorry, didn't ask the question right. Do you have a male/female (hetero) mixed population during the day or are they kept separate (homo)?

Additional:
How many committed vs voluntary?
Is it all adult?
Your physical dimensions?
Other than medication are there any other treatments (not group/talk therapy)? We still have people here that come in for voluntary ECT.
Does this partly explain your avatar?

Mixed company, we aren't an actual mental hospital we function as a holding/evaluating facility for our psychiatric patients so we get all types. It was probably misleading the way I put the title, but that's my job description rather than the type of hospital we are. That being said due to the way mental health is handled in this country/state we do get lengthy visits due to processing, especially for patients without insurance. The longest I've personally handled was just shy of 10 days, that doesn't sound like much but it's a lifetime for holding. 

From conversations I've had with an acquaintance in one of the hospitals we transport to I'd venture to speculate that we tend to deal with more aggressive situations due to our inability to establish rapport with most of our patients. From what I've seen it's almost an overarching theme for new patients to be paranoid of our intentions, no matter their condition or how we try to approach it. 

• Mostly involuntary throughout the first parts of the year, from autumn to spring we typically get walk-ins due to the holidays and colder weather -homeless*-
  
• No, sadly we get a lot of teenagers that have tried to end things because of SO's or terrible home situations. Not to mention the kids/teens that have mental issues.
  
• 6'0'', 240 lbs. Generally in good shape if not a bit overweight. 
  
• No, due to us being a holding facility. 
  
• Oh yeah.
  

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* We get a large influx of the homeless every winter season that either legitimately have mental issues or pretend to, but either way I can only imagine that -usually- they come in is to use the system to get out of the weather because it's the same people who are oddly absent during the warmer seasons.