Mental

True Story #16

During nursing school we did a standard psych rotation. Another female classmate and I were in a group session in the men's unit. We sit down and then a violent sexual predator who makes it a point to make any and all females feel like victims, sits down next to me. He proceeds to invade my space and I'm not exactly sure what else he was doing back there because I was attempting to remain focused on the group leads speech, but he received many verbal warnings about his actions. After a few minutes he interrupts to inform everyone that he needed to take a trip to the bathroom, wink at me and exit the room. At which point a patient on the other side of the room, who has refused to speak to anybody about anything, and up till this point has for all intents and purposes been completely in his own world,gets up. He politely scoots the chair, which had ended up touching me, away from me and sits down in it. He sits for a few seconds and then gets up, grabs his empty chair and throws it into the room across the hall. He sits down again, he received a warning for throwing things and a thank you from me. When the VSP came back and saw no available seat he decided to go watch TV and wait for the nurse to open the med room. Also, all of the female patients ranging from 17-73 were "pregnant". There were other things, but I really appreciated the help I received.