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. 

[KUSA]

What do you think of Thorazine?

[brewer]

Hetero or homo population?

• 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 or past avatar?

[Bob Kelso]

What do you think of Thorazine?

Not much really, we tend to use physical restraints if patients are combative. Security doesn't have much to do with medical applications other than making sure a nurse/doctor doesn't get mule kicked.

[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.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Any chance you could slip the key to these handcuffs through the food slot in my door?

Boru

[Bob Kelso]

Any chance you could slip the key to these handcuffs through the food slot in my door?  

Boru

No, and you know why. 

Bad Boru. Bad.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Any chance you could slip the key to these handcuffs through the food slot in my door?  

Boru

No, and you know why. 

Bad Boru. Bad.

Fine. I hereby curse you and your descendants unto the 12th generation. You will all be anally raped by syphilitic sea otters. Gangrenous camels will puke in your hummus. You will never get an interest rate lower than 15% on any loan.

I have spoken.

Boru

[Bob Kelso]

See, dammit, this is why.

-and the hummus? How dare you?!

Glad I bought those magical underwears from that Mormon a while back. No curses for me thanks.

[Pyrrho]

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Strangest delusion?

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• 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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Wait, what is so strange about that?  Doesn't everyone think those things?