Anything you'd like to know about my 10 years working in a mental hospital?

It was a state mental hospital. It had a civil commitment section (homeless people brought in by police, indigent mental patients whose families couldn't care for them) and it had a forensic section (people serving prison terms considered mentally ill or not guilty by reason of insanity). I worked as a teacher, first adolescents for 5 years, then adults for 5 years. I have been retired for 4 years.

I'm asking this because I'm writing my memoirs of my career to be given to my friends and wondered what, if anything, people might want to know about it.

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greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

cherokeepatti, in many cases, it is just not possible to know what causes someone's mental illness. Sometimes it is very obvious; if a patient comes from a family with a great many seriously mentally ill people, some conclusions can be drawn as to a genetic component. If a patient has been extremely mistreated for an extended period of time, obviously stress or post traumatic stress is involved. And some kids come from homes that are horrible beyond the imagination of most people so that no one could come out of that situation undamaged. But...a lot of the time, the cause is a mystery and one can speculate but nothing is clear or obvious.