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Originally Posted by nottrustin
In my opinion I think T should at the very least discuss why she is terminating so that you clearly understand why.
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Agree. There is not much we can learn from a situation if we don't understand why it happened. Why is it difficult to just tell the truth? I get that it takes time and effort to distill situations down to the essence of what happened and why, but in trying to move forward from a situation, unless we truly understand what happened and why, then it seems to me we will just keep experiencing similar situations. knaveG, I hope you find a good T who will be able to help you understand what happened here and why, and then help you work through this, because it doesn't sound like you will get the answers you are hoping for from the T who terminated you. Sorry to hear it was so painful for you.
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Originally Posted by nottrustin
Last week on the unit we had a patient turn violent. He hurt staff then he proceeded to bang his head on the door of seclusion room door until he bleed and then proceeded to write all over the walls and doors with blood and tear apart the walls. Now if this would have been because of his illness it would have been one thing. However the reason he got so mad was because he entered the community room where a lot of patients were watching a movie. He changed the station and staff told him that people were watching the movie he could watch something after. He got angry so staff asked him to go to his room. Then he started punching and kicking everybody.
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I don't see how this behavior would
not be because of mental illness. What person who is not mentally ill has done any behaviors such as this. I'm sorry, but this patient in the psych unit you work in, nottrustin, sounds like they do have a mental illness, and it is good they are getting help. I'm not saying this behavior is ok, all I am saying is that if a person were in their right mind, they wouldn't be behaving as you described. I hope the unit is able to help this person because it is clear to me they need it. Sounds like it was pretty traumatic for everyone involved.
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