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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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Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
Do they have locking clothing ?
greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
No. That, and many other forms of physical restraint are rarely used anymore. Drugs have taken the place of straightjackets and such.
Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
@greenmountaingal: What drugs do they usually use for control can you use them all the time?