That's so scary. I am really fortunate because my hospital has a mood disorder unit and while I've seen some people get pretty agitated and security escort a few people out (to home? other units?) it's usually not scary. I'm often the scariest because I'm usually the only bipolar person an I'm generally mixed so I am all over the place and the mania tends to scare people a bit.

I did spend 30 hours in the ER waiting for a bed once with people who were agitated and violent and it was really hard. I wound up in tears after they put this really scary man next door to me; he sounded like he was going to tear the whole pysch er apart. I think he got some meds and eventually quit screaming and trying to throw things but I was too afraid to leave my room after that.