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We have a kid who is like 22 and everyone in his life has either abandoned him or thoroughly fucked him over, and he has been in our care for about 5 of the last 6 months, and about 70% of the time, he's fine, pleasant, whatever. The other 30% of the time, he's secreting plastic cutlery in his sleeves or mattress to cut at his arms with, or trying to smother himself with his pillow or trying to strangle himself with his blankets. Even when we take those things from him and put him on 1:1 supervision, he's tried to strangle himself with a phone cord or smother himself by holding his face into the mattress with all of his force.
We just got rid of a girl who was bipolar with psychotic features. She liked to head-bang and cut herself. Her most notable attempt was a few weeks ago, when she stood on a desk - in another patient's room - dislodged a fluorescent tube light bulb, smashed it on the desk and raked it from wrist to elbow. She did this while the staff were busy putting the above kid into four-point restraints because he had tried to strangle himself with a sweatshirt. She saw an opening and took it.
Another girl with us is a major league head-banging borderline who has been in the system since she was in middle school. She doesn't cut, thankfully, but her urges to hurt herself lead to her getting put in points a lot, and lately she has been striking out at staff, which she didn't used to do. She punched one of my coworkers in the chest last Friday evening.
We used to have a girl, who thankfully left us and is doing well, we hear, who would find ways to cut herself in life-threatening ways every time she was hospitalized with us. Once it was a screw from a bathroom fixture, another time it was a piece of a seashell Christmas decoration. She would gash herself and then lie in bed like nothing was wrong. She nearly died a few times she was with us.
We have another girl now, she's not a safety risk at all, which is great, but she is floridly psychotic. She thinks she was Anne Frank in a past life, and that one of our male patients saved her from the camps - and that his name then was Christian Grey, which kind fits in a weird way if you think about it - and she has issues with boundaries. She will go into other people's rooms in the night and take their clothes, or leave her clothes, or both. Sometimes she just rummages through things. A couple of times she has tried to get into bed with people. One night she took an older woman's shirt without the woman noticing, and wore it to one of the group sessions the next morning. The woman was so upset. As staff, we think it is both incredibly inappropriate but also super hilarious. She also has taken to calling herself "Anastajia" lately, which is weird.
I spent nearly 3 years of my life working in group homes and a mental health center. It made me change my mind about a career in psychology.
Way back when I was in school for Early Childhood Education and working as a teacher in a daycare center. One too many calls to CPS and reports of abuse for children under the age of 5 are why I work in an office doing accounting/administrative assistant type of work now.
It's kind of sad, because I couldn't hack it. To many emotions, and I couldn't take all of the kids home with me. I've actually been thinking of reentering that field recently.
We have a kid who is like 22 and everyone in his life has either abandoned him or thoroughly fucked him over, and he has been in our care for about 5 of the last 6 months, and about 70% of the time, he's fine, pleasant, whatever. The other 30% of the time, he's secreting plastic cutlery in his sleeves or mattress to cut at his arms with, or trying to smother himself with his pillow or trying to strangle himself with his blankets. Even when we take those things from him and put him on 1:1 supervision, he's tried to strangle himself with a phone cord or smother himself by holding his face into the mattress with all of his force.
We just got rid of a girl who was bipolar with psychotic features. She liked to head-bang and cut herself. Her most notable attempt was a few weeks ago, when she stood on a desk - in another patient's room - dislodged a fluorescent tube light bulb, smashed it on the desk and raked it from wrist to elbow. She did this while the staff were busy putting the above kid into four-point restraints because he had tried to strangle himself with a sweatshirt. She saw an opening and took it.
Another girl with us is a major league head-banging borderline who has been in the system since she was in middle school. She doesn't cut, thankfully, but her urges to hurt herself lead to her getting put in points a lot, and lately she has been striking out at staff, which she didn't used to do. She punched one of my coworkers in the chest last Friday evening.
We used to have a girl, who thankfully left us and is doing well, we hear, who would find ways to cut herself in life-threatening ways every time she was hospitalized with us. Once it was a screw from a bathroom fixture, another time it was a piece of a seashell Christmas decoration. She would gash herself and then lie in bed like nothing was wrong. She nearly died a few times she was with us.
We have another girl now, she's not a safety risk at all, which is great, but she is floridly psychotic. She thinks she was Anne Frank in a past life, and that one of our male patients saved her from the camps - and that his name then was Christian Grey, which kind fits in a weird way if you think about it - and she has issues with boundaries. She will go into other people's rooms in the night and take their clothes, or leave her clothes, or both. Sometimes she just rummages through things. A couple of times she has tried to get into bed with people. One night she took an older woman's shirt without the woman noticing, and wore it to one of the group sessions the next morning. The woman was so upset. As staff, we think it is both incredibly inappropriate but also super hilarious. She also has taken to calling herself "Anastajia" lately, which is weird.
I understood all of your ratio's and terms that you've used.
My son is in an 8:1:1 program at school, because like me, he doesn't have an emotional filter. He's either at a 1 or a 10. We take it all in. Highly sensitive, and highly aware to our surroundings. He's also a boy who doesn't understand how to process it.
Keep doing what you're doing, my friend. This modern world needs more people like you to take care of others.
I spent nearly 3 years of my life working in group homes and a mental health center. It made me change my mind about a career in psychology.
Way back when I was in school for Early Childhood Education and working as a teacher in a daycare center. One too many calls to CPS and reports of abuse for children under the age of 5 are why I work in an office doing accounting/administrative assistant type of work now.
It's kind of sad, because I couldn't hack it. To many emotions, and I couldn't take all of the kids home with me. I've actually been thinking of reentering that field recently.
That's what I've been doing for over two years now. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I really do love my daycare kids, some like my own. We thankfully have not had to deal with many abuse situations, but we do have some pretty shitty parents that are constantly flirting with neglect. What makes it really stressful is adding kids with behavior problems to a crowded daycare. To top it off the owner is suffering from plenty of her own mental health issues and is doing a horrible job of holding everything together. I'm trying to get out and I'm not sure what is going to happen to that place when I'm not there to run it.
We have another girl now, she's not a safety risk at all, which is great, but she is floridly psychotic. She thinks she was Anne Frank in a past life, and that one of our male patients saved her from the camps - and that his name then was Christian Grey, which kind fits in a weird way if you think about it - and she has issues with boundaries. She will go into other people's rooms in the night and take their clothes, or leave her clothes, or both. Sometimes she just rummages through things. A couple of times she has tried to get into bed with people. One night she took an older woman's shirt without the woman noticing, and wore it to one of the group sessions the next morning. The woman was so upset. As staff, we think it is both incredibly inappropriate but also super hilarious. She also has taken to calling herself "Anastajia" lately, which is weird.
Christian Grey and Anastasia are the main characters from Fifty Shades Of Grey. I'm interested in how she connected Christian Grey to Nazi Germany.
Way back when I was in school for Early Childhood Education and working as a teacher in a daycare center. One too many calls to CPS and reports of abuse for children under the age of 5 are why I work in an office doing accounting/administrative assistant type of work now.
It's kind of sad, because I couldn't hack it. To many emotions, and I couldn't take all of the kids home with me. I've actually been thinking of reentering that field recently.
That's what I've been doing for over two years now. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I really do love my daycare kids, some like my own. We thankfully have not had to deal with many abuse situations, but we do have some pretty shitty parents that are constantly flirting with neglect. What makes it really stressful is adding kids with behavior problems to a crowded daycare. To top it off the owner is suffering from plenty of her own mental health issues and is doing a horrible job of holding everything together. I'm trying to get out and I'm not sure what is going to happen to that place when I'm not there to run it.
The place that I worked for as a head teacher with the 2-3 year olds, was the same place that we had all of the "parent" problems.
One other fun thing about that place, was that when everyone got their checks on Friday mornings, we would draw straws to see who would get to go to lunch first to cash them. We did this because if you were the last one to get to the bank, then chances were, you wouldn't get you check processed. It was a shit hole. But I stayed because I loved those kids so, so much.
Cokes, that's crazy what you have to deal with. I have no clue how you handle that everyday. Thank goodness there are people like you who can handle it though, the patience it must take is astounding.
It doesn't seem all that hard to envision Christian Grey as someone Hitler would be very fond of, given his Aryan looks (at least based on how they seem to want to cast him in the film; I have only read one page of those books) and fondness for dominance.
It doesn't seem all that hard to envision Christian Grey as someone Hitler would be very fond of, given his Aryan looks (at least based on how they seem to want to cast him in the film; I have only read one page of those books) and fondness for dominance.
You've totally read them all. Don't lie. You're among friends. We won't judge....much.
Cokes, that's crazy what you have to deal with. I have no clue how you handle that everyday. Thank goodness there are people like you who can handle it though, the patience it must take is astounding.
I'm lucky in that it isn't often a day-to-day thing. These last five months have been brutal because of some of the people I mentioned, but generally my unit isn't bad. It's a rapid stabilization unit, so our turnaround time on most patients is 7-10 days. It's a lot of depression, anxiety, bipolar and PTSD, but rarely psychosis. Affective disorders more than personality disorders and so forth. We have 28 beds and rarely do we have more than one or two problematic patients. Lately, we have been inundated with really difficult and chronically sick young adults and they are far and away the toughest.
It doesn't seem all that hard to envision Christian Grey as someone Hitler would be very fond of, given his Aryan looks (at least based on how they seem to want to cast him in the film; I have only read one page of those books) and fondness for dominance.
You've totally read them all. Don't lie. You're among friends. We won't judge....much.
I read one page in a dramatic, Jeremy Irons-like fashion and cringed to death at all the ellipses.
