We had this one patient, who was very aggressive and would threaten the others. She'd also scare them by singing "boom boom pow," and "burn down the house!" All the time. She ran away once because she thought the house was going to catch on fire... Actually made it something like a 3-4 hour drive away in 8 hours... She was really foul, too. She would throw up in the sinks that had mesh over the drains and leave it... And get poop all over the showers and toilet... And she would wet herself and sit in various places...... And we'd have to clean it up.
We had another girl who turned everything into being something sexual. Like, even someone passing something to her, she interpreted something sexual from. She wrote things about me in her journal we found, and was asking people if I was into girls... Oh, and right before we found this out, she attempted to kill herself several times in front of staff, to the point we had to restrain and call the cops... Oh, yes, and she was convinced my supervisor was a serial rapist.
Another guy, he was very insecure and always trying to intimidate and threaten staff. He was a big guy. Over 6ft, over 200 lbs. He'd get a leer on his face, puff himself even bigger and loom over your and tell you about how he wouks attack his family.
Another guy, he would make sexual comments to all the women staff. And make violent comments to others. He managed to make hugs, that he would force on people, very threatening and awkward. He had the cops called on him when he tried to attack someone at the center.
Another guy, he was in the process of getting a gun and bullets and had a list of employees he was going to gun down, and where they lived, cuz his meds were wrong. His neighbour called it in just in time.
Another guy, he was severely diabetic and wouldn't watch what he ate or whatnot. He nearly died 4 times in a week's time before we could find a more appropriate living arrangement for him.
Another woman, she was very symptomatic and wildly express her delusions in a rather aggressive way, usually religious ones involving god being their dad, her dad raping her, her sister ruining her curly hair to be straight so she'd go to hell and not heaven, being marries to the dad of the little house on the prairie... Oh, and when I had to drive her to BHU 2 hours away, she kept nearly making me crash for half the drive, wailing we were going to die cuz god said so while grabbing and shaking and kicking my seat.
Another woman, she might actually have Dissociative Identity Disorder... Which is practically a myth akin to jackelopes in the mental health community... She goes through numerous posture, vocal and expressive changes flawlessly in a matter of a minute. So far we have met her guardian angel, god, the devil and some random guy. She also expresses when her voices leave her, sometimes, they are off having sex with other women. Did I mention she is into me and has asked me on a date?...
Enough of mental health... Back when I was a nurse...
The workplace was a mess. We had to do both the kitchen's and the housekeeping's jobs. Workplace abuse was common, both verbally and physically. I was once with another woman on shift, who dirtied the same toilet i cleaned twice. And belittled me and called me names and more. When i told her i wasnt going to clean a clean toilet a third time, she took a picture of a toilet one resident tore up every night and sent it to the boss saying i was refusing to do my job. When i walked off the job that night, she was screaming insults to my back the whole time.
There was a fellow who would piss his briefs, all over the floor, in various placea of the building, etc. when we would try to help him change, he would get explosively violent and hit us. He was also always going up and grabbing and hitting on the staff if he was not calling them fat and ugly.
My favorite woman there hates most of the staff. With good reason, they were rough, mean, lazy and dumb. She told one of the teen workers she wished she had a pet monkey so she could train it to throw poo at her.
We had a hoarder.
We had several people that would make themselves fall.
We had several dementia patients who were all over the place...
Its sad, but I think my least awful job was at the humane society, where i was just always cleaning, walking dogs, and cleaning up poop.
