Much of what I see in these psychiatric hospitals are plenty of techs who are incompetent, or just there to collect a paycheck and ignore the patients.
But there were a few techs and a few nurses who were stellar.
One day , 24 y.o. Nate* went into a frenzy and demanded his medicine. I thought he might be schizophrenic but on my last day in the hospital he said that he was beaten by 2 men and brain damaged. He speaks nonsense most of the time. He began secreaming and cussing and then challenged the tech, James* to "put up your dukes!" He physically went after james while cussing and screaming. James* being one of the techs who is just their to collect a paycheck, went into the nurses station laughing. I see nothing funny about this at all.
Then Nate went after Charles the 53 year old who looks 75, and has the mental competency of maybe a 1 year old. Charles was terrified and ran, he continued to relive and retell the story in the coming days.
Nurse Louann* is the one who stunned me with the beautiful intervention.
She went over to Nate looked him in the eye and gently took his hands. She asked him: "May I give you a hug?!"
He said: YES!
She embraced him for a while, and spoke calmly in his ear.
All I can say is wow; sometimes practicing peace really works!
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