Aye i'm still really enjoying it after some 8 months

Work in a forensic psychiatric clinic, this place specialises in treating people who commited relatively serious crimes while being psychotic. They come here all wild and crazy and then get locked up for a while, receive (forced) medication and therapy and then after a few weeks you really see them calm down. It’s like a prison in the sense that we only take clients from the justice department, we have pretty high security and the patients aren’t allowed to go anywhere until they’re really far in their treatment – only you wouldn’t say it if you got a look at the place. It’s pretty friendly looking, with large spacey rooms for the clients built around a little garden courtyard where they can walk around and stuff.

My job is to arrange transport from jail to here and figure out how to keep the clinic full and the waiting list short, but every now and then i'm allowed to sit in on interviews or go to prisons for intakes, which is pretty cool. The work itself isn't so exciting, lots of paper work and emails and phonecalls to be honest - but the crazy shit you see and hear makes it really interesting.. And it’s challenging in the sense that when i make a mistake, it can have serious & immediate impact on an actual person… so that keeps me on my toes

Sometimes incidents are funny, like when i got a phonecall from the railway police saying they caught one of our crazies and i hear the patient in the background saying “You’ve got it all wrong, i’m not who you think i am, i’m Jesus Christ, son of God! But i will forgive you.” Sometimes it’s really sweet, like when a client who’d been with us for almost a decade finally got released and he decided to stay up all night and bake cakes for all the staff - not just ordinary cakes either, cakes that were so professionally done that you could easily sell em in a high end bakery. And sometimes it’s nasty, like when they try to kill themselves or get violent towards the staff. Which doesn’t happen a lot, but it does happen. Sad when it does, because the freedoms they built up by behaving like they should just get reset when they do – and it’s not like they’re hardened criminals for the most part, they’re just really sick people.

here's the deal...I'm walking outside to smoke now...u mad?...