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, I don't have a statistic but many patients I dealt with were gifted, many were outright geniuses. I was not a Special Ed. teacher; I was a General Ed. teacher so all the patients with learning disabilities were not in my classes. That might explain why I had so many gifted patients.