Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk – Panorama | Trailer – BBC

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This is why I've told my mum to never to ring 999 for anything to do with my mental health. I'm more likely to end up dead from the "help" than myself.

I worked in the Environmental Services department at a hospital in Ogden, Utah. There were 3 places I never was assigned to for cleaning during a shift. First was the OR as I wasn't trained to clean that area. Second was the OB/GYN patient rooms, due to the reason that women about to give birth respond better to women coming to clean their rooms instead of men. Third was the Psychiatric Ward. The cleaning carts for that area have to be designed for the protection of you and the patients. There are a lot of dangerous items on a cleaning cart, most of them chemicals used for cleaning rooms and floors. Each of those chemicals were also very hazardous, even when diluted in water, and need to be kept away from patients being treated for mental health reasons. There are things that can be done better for mental health patients in every healthcare system. The first step for everyone is to stop treating people with mental illness like each and everyone of them is going to be dangerously violent all of the sudden. This unconscious bias towards mentally ill patients needs to end. All in all, most people with mental illness just want to be treated like regular people. They just need a little help and understanding to get there.