Well, it's really much more complicated than that. Much, much more. Also, the 'voices' sufferers are a vast minority in most psych yards. Although, of course, the general public think otherwise, in reality, in an average psych hospital, they constitute for about 1/10 of the patients.
The others? Mood disorders (which are real in, appr. 1/2 cases, and that's a generous estimation), borderlines, and plain drug-seekers. People who want to be cared for and know how to use the system to get us to do that. At practically any point 1/3 of the patients in our hospital are frequent flyers, who come for free bed, free food, free drugs and free staff members to throw a tantrum onto.
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Date: 2009-06-12 04:58 pm (UTC)The others? Mood disorders (which are real in, appr. 1/2 cases, and that's a generous estimation), borderlines, and plain drug-seekers. People who want to be cared for and know how to use the system to get us to do that. At practically any point 1/3 of the patients in our hospital are frequent flyers, who come for free bed, free food, free drugs and free staff members to throw a tantrum onto.