Ask a psychiatric/hospital security guard...

[Bob Kelso]

Frequency of violence to themselves?

Frequency of violence to others?

Types and ratio of mental disorders that you guard (schiz/bipolar/low functioning........)?

Hetero or homo population?

Favorite patient description (don't violate HIPPA)?

Strangest delusion?

• As a reason why they are there; (as an offhand estimate) at least 6/10. 
  - We don't often have instances of self harm at the facility, but it happens from time to time. 
• Very frequent. There's usually not a work week where I haven't had to go toe to toe with a handful of patients. 
  
• Couldn't really tell you to be honest, at least not in an accurate way. Offhand we do have quite a large number of depressive types and schizophrenics.
  
• Can't say, it doesn't come up that often really. 
  
• Had a great person that was a coke-addict/schizophrenic who was probably the nicest person I've ever seen in their type of situation.
  
• This person thought they were Jesus Christ reborn, whose "prime objective" -as they put it- was to fight the Russians, vampires, werewolves and dragons and start the end of days. 
  

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Have you ever done this to a patient?

Y... no.