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Working in a Psychiatric Hospital After Having Been a Patient in One Myself
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“Can you imagine being locked up on a psych unit?” “Can you imagine having to tell your employer that you were committed to a psychiatric hospital?” “Would you hire someone who was seriously mentally ill?” Now that I am a mental health professional working in a psychiatric hospital, well-meaning people, who are simply trying to convey the level of challenge that this often cruel and stigmatizing world poses for our patients, ask me this often.
It is a hypothetical question, and I don’t think any of these people expect an answer. Yet, I consistently am tempted to respond “Actually, I can imagine.” There is a great deal of variance between the experience of most of my patients and myself, and there are many realities of their life that I will
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