My Experience Working at a Psychiatric Hospital + 5 Things I Learned While Working There...
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- This video shares a brief summary of my thoughts about working at a psychiatric hospital, a few of my experiences while working there, and 5 lessons I learned while working there.
Remember, this is JUST MY experience. I hope people in these facilities receive effective care they are pleased with, that just wasn't my experience. (Spoiler alert)
Thanks for watching!! I had fun editing this video, I hope some parts were fun to watch. I also hope you're doing exceptionally well! If you're not, I send you a big virtual hug.
Take it easy.
Happy Healing (:
Allisun
I saw a funny key chain saying once, several years ago. It said "The only difference between staff and patients in a psych hospital are the keys".
Glad I found this video, I just quit my job at a psych hospital lol I only lasted 3 months, but I totally agree with you. Glad I’m not alone.
I am a computer programmer, but all I know is old school programming.
I want to help people.
So, at the age of 57, I have decided to become a Mental Health Technician.
I am very nervous.
Thank you for sharing! I’m glad it was a learning experience for you, even though your experience was negative. Having been in a psych hospital twice in the past, I agree that It is more of a place for safety rather than healing. For me, it has helped me get to a point where I was ready to heal, and for that I am great full. In that moment it was exactly what I needed and because of my time there I have gained different tools and strategies I can take with me on my healing journey.
You are so right about how we can change somebody’s moment as opposed to fix their entire past that we are not responsible for we can only make their moment in time better so that we can have a positive impact on their future end their future memories
My experience is I’m slowly losing my mind between the staff and the patients my mind is deteriorating. Long story short you go in sharp and light hearted but after a couple of years you slowly become like the patients if your not careful.
I always say that it could easily be me on the other side of the desk. I try to stay humble and do my best to give them what they need in the short time they are with me.
Years ago I was hospitalized for severe anorexia nervosa at 75 pounds at 5’7 inches, I had severe trouble walking, very low blood pressure, very low heart rate, had not eaten much in months and became life threatening when I had trouble even drinking fluids. When I was admitted I was strip searched, all my stuff was searched and I could not keep most of it, watched 24/7 even bathroom and shower time, forced mds, force fed , I was given time to eat on my own but if I did not I was restrained and fed with nasal gastric tube. It was painful and traumatic and the bloating and pain after they did that was awful. They put 20 pounds on me in 5 months which I promptly lost within 2 to 3 months because of trauma of it. It was damaging to me. Found phy team too help me with recovery at later time and now recovered but still have lasting damage from eating disorder
Loved hearing your honest perspective as I am looking to get experience in the mental health field before going for my Master’s in mental health counseling.
Also, you have the sweetest voice and character and it really came through. I think you’re in the right field and you have a beautiful heart. Also: you’d be amazing at ASMR! and i loved the cat fountain in the background actually 🐱 so soothing.
Thank you for your videos they are so helpful! I love your drive for self-improvement and your drive to help other people is beautiful!!!
Thank youuu BB 😸
I’ve realized too that our hospital could use an onsite therapist. We do have some patients who are there longer. They are people who have limited housing options, usually because they are not allowed back to certain room and board/board and care/IMD. They have stayed with us for up to a year or more.
You are very genuinely kind... Thank you for sharing!! God blessbyoy!!! 🙏
Thank you for this video. Ill be going in as a volunteer to talk about drug and alcohol recovery. Hopefully it goes well. I never in my wildest dreams expected to be doing something like this.
Your experience, I suspect, is more the norm--especially at places that depend on Medicaid and Medicare. The one I worked at was a dangerous place, there was little to no accountability of patients nor staff unless recorded on video. Major, dangerous events were, in general, not even documented.
Management, due to the hostile workplace conditions, only appeared when licensing agencies were expected, barked unworkable orders and usually didn't enforce many of rules or protocols they ordered.
Because rounds have to be documented every 15 minutes, and there is no room on the form to add any surprise rounds, the only reason people get caught is because many of the Techs pencil whip the forms and therefore don't follow the protocols.
I used to say, the place I worked, couldn't organize an orgy in a phonebooth (please forgive the expression). That was, until, one of the acute units had a 9 person orgy. When I asked how many staff were in on the event, staff just laughed. With only 14 patients on the unit it was a little hard to believe not one staff participated.
Just glad you got out of there as, IMHE, the best folks leave the quickest. Hence, such places are full of desperate people who have no place else to go--staff and patients.
I only say this in the public interest.
This is really helpful information. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for posting! Very helpful
Hello fellow INFJ! I’m passionate in mental health and medicine. My plan is to become a psych nurse practitioner. Im going to keep everything you shared in mind while in school. Thanks for this.
Psychiatry hospitals sound scary, but hopefully they keep people safe. Although, it's sad to hear that some people are being harmed there.
Yay book club! Got my copy of 'The Body Keeps The Score'.
Very tough book. Just reading the witness accounts of PTSD and trauma in the book was tough for me. Had to take breaks reading it. Makes you appreciate, those poor people who actually had to live it. Up to page 47. Hopefully the book will also have CPTSD in it. Not sure. I find psychology, Freud, psychiatry quite interesting in any case though and will definitely finish reading it. Thanks for the book recommendation Allisun!
Hey Ma Mu! The body keeps the score is proving a long term read for me, too! Happy to share, I look forward to reading more and sharing soon. 😸
Thank you for this.
I was put into a psychiatric facility as a child because my mother didn't belive that her new husband was R-ing me one month after she got custody of me.
I'm 40 now. I work in a psychiatric hospital.
I see this more often than anyone would believe.
I find your verbiage and tone concerning. Safe space? On a psychiatric ward, ma'am?
surely, SURELY you know.
You know the history.
Safe space?? Not in the 50s and not now.
These places are not safe.
They are brutal, criminal, and barbaric.
All of them.
Even yours.
Hey I am Bachelor degree in Psychiatric mental health nurse 6 years work experience as psychi nurses in government health center in Ethiopia I am on process come in to usa after arrived in usa I want to work as psychi nurse in American as PMHRN psychiatric mental health register nurse if it is possible for international bsc Psychiatric nurse ?
This is very discouraging. I hope other hospitals are not like this.
The water sound in the background is wigging me out but thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you for telling us. Yes, there is still a lot of unawareness when it comes to healing trauma. Right now in our current society people see themselves as machines when we are actually emotional beings. Lots of awareness necessary. the thing with the intercourse is intense. Unbelievable!
So you are still an infj? I do get a lot of extroverted feeling vibes from you. Do you feel like you could be ENFJ?
Hey!! I am SO thoroughly an INFJ! Fe is strong with me, Ni is my lifestyle haha (there's a great article on personality junkie's website in case you want to do some fun research!) and, I've learned that your inferior function is where things happen that REALLY bum you out. Things happen that negatively impact you in all areas of life, but your inferior function things are the ones that throw you off completely. Sounds right to me, as Se things bummmm me out!! I like control, haha. Anywho, no about ENFJ, I am such a major introvert! I light up with special extraversion OFTEN, genuinely, social butterfly and center of attention style, but have a hard cap that I hit and then feel suddenly *nope. Time to go be by myself. Now.* 😂🥰
@@ProactiveResilience I was also very certain you are an introvert to be honest. But I had to entertain the idea cause of your very noticeable Fe. Would you want to do a video on how you experience Ni?...Also Ni in conjunction with Fe and how that manifests for you?
Well yes I would 🥰 I'll try to gather my thoughts over the next few days and create that for next week. I think it's very relevant to my resilience, which is all the more reason to share. Ni thinks over every situation subconsciously, constantly. And Fe is gifted at seeing and feeling other peoples' points of view, as well as desiring harmony, which leads to lots of compassion, even for people who haven't quite earned it, like narcissistic individuals. Does that make sense? I'd love to learn more about INFP healing, if you want to share anything about what it's like to have dominant Fi and a dysfunctional upbringing.
@@ProactiveResilience Oh well, dominant Fi and a highly abusive upbringing...well I came to the awareness over the course of my healing journey that humans are emotional beings. We live in the age of technology and people view themselves as computers I realized. It shows in the language e.g. when people say they need to reprogram their brains or get something out of their "system" it sounds as if they are machines. To me it is closer to the truth if I say I move through all my painful emotions that could never express themselves and have my truth be heard and heal. So much emphasis is put on thoughts and the brain but what we need is to feel safe enough to express all our pain and validate our emotions (our truth) so the pain can be released from our being. I believe our brain and our cognitive abilities serve to structure our emotional experience and to organise them and communicate them but in this day and age the brain rules over everything as if humans are computers. But computers and maschines they don't have feelings and desires, needs, wants. They have no life which is what distinguishes humans from computers. To sum up: emotions are life. This is what I realized being an infp who has had highly abusive upbringing. It wounded me so deeply and what is the worst part is that I could never express my emotions to know that my truth is valid which is what every abuse victim needs to move through all the pain and express their truth to realise that it is valid. As a sidenote I believe moon and fourth house are to do with the emotional body and saturn/capricorn in contact with moon or fourth house shows that in the course of this life we learn to get into the emotional flow which has been deeply repressed. Whe learn how to feel again and understand that feeling is life.
I'm making this video now!!
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Our facility, they are allowed to have sex, and I do my rounds at random times, random routes, no routine to learn or predict.
Oh wow
Is it sexual harassment or rape?
Sensitives should not work at such places.
Ironic that you work in trauma recovery given that you probably contributed to a lot of trauma in that industry, especially if you're working in America.