Defining reality at psychiatric facilities

February 17, 2015

I think that many, if not most, people who work in psychiatric facilities are used to defining the reality of what happens in those facilities.  Since 2010, I have yet to be in a psychiatric facility where harassment didn't happen and was not denied. 

I have also yet to be in a psychiatric facility where there were no good people.  The system has abuse built into it, because it is too easy for practitioners to blame every issue on the patients. I think it's difficult for people who work in the system to avoid having their thinking and behavior at least occasionally distorted by the system's endemic abuses.

Most of the time, I get along with most of the staff and most of the patients and other clients at Quincy Mental Health Center.  When I don't, it's good that I can write online about the conflict or problem, so that my definitions of reality have weight somewhere.  So far, it's not enough weight, but it's better than nothing.

Copyright L. Kochman, February 17, 2015 @ 10:04 p.m.