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The Patients We Fear: Life in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital | ENDEVR Documentary



The Patients We Fear: Life in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital | ENDEVR Documentary

The Patients We Fear: Life in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital | ENDEVR Documentary

After the Psychosis – When a Violent Patient Seeks Freedom: https://youtu.be/GW0JFAA29Gk

Behind the locked doors of a forensic psychiatric hospital, people who have committed violent crimes while suffering from severe mental illness struggle for a second chance. With unprecedented access to the Brockville Mental Health Centre, this documentary follows patients undergoing treatment in an institution rarely seen by the public. Over 18 months, both patients and staff reveal the realities of life inside—where recovery, responsibility, and risk are constantly weighed.

As some patients prepare to return to society, the film raises a difficult question: can those who committed violent acts while mentally ill truly be rehabilitated—and will society ever accept them?

This documentary first aired in 2014

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  1. @ENDEVRDocs on

    Behind the locked doors of a forensic psychiatric hospital, people who have committed violent crimes while suffering from severe mental illness struggle for a second chance. With unprecedented access to the Brockville Mental Health Centre, this documentary follows patients undergoing treatment in an institution rarely seen by the public. Over 18 months, both patients and staff reveal the realities of life inside—where recovery, responsibility, and risk are constantly weighed.

    As some patients prepare to return to society, the film raises a difficult question: can those who committed violent acts while mentally ill truly be rehabilitated—and will society ever accept them?

    Documentary first aired 2014

  3. @LeeLeeCalderónRN on

    I thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. When they say women make the worst patients, it's true. I have never worked in a psych hospital, but I have worked on a heavily secured Alzheimer's/dementia unit. Some of the most severe cases I have ever seen. Some were very aggressive. I'm now a Director of Nursing n social worker at an outpatient dual diagnosis substance abxse treatment center. Meaning all of our patients not only have substance abxse issues, but they also have some sort of diagnosed mental illness that is being managed with medication n therapy. The women in both places are far harder to deal with than the men.

    When the talk about the patients engaging in s3xual activity, I had to laugh. I have a friend that works at a long term care facility for ppl with disabilities, everything from Down syndrome to quadriplegia. They range in age from 18 to elderly. She has caught MANY of the more "able" patients doing "it" lol.

    Michael is such a handsome man. He looks clean cut n speaks intelligently. You would never know how sick he is by looking at him, until you look in his eyes. There is absolutely nothing behind his eyes. There is nothing behind any of their eyes. It's just empty. This is literally where the saying "The lights are on, but nobody is home" comes from. All these ppls lives just wasting away bc their own brain doesn't work properly. Mental illness can be so cruel. It's all really heartbreaking n fascinating at the same time.

    Edit: I read a comment that Michael has been living on his own. I agree with his father. He definitely should be given the opportunity to rebuild his life, but I don't think a completely unrestricted discharge is the best idea. He needs a caseworker at the VERY least. I hope he is still doing well.

  4. @kim.ezekiel on

    I'm a nurse and qualified mental health worker. I've also been involuntarily hospitalised in psychiatric wards for months at a time whilst struggling with anorexia nervosa. I've seen and experienced life from both sides. Mental health is something we take for granted until it's typically too late.

  6. @margmckay3257 on

    Michael’s is such a tragic story. My heart breaks for him. He is so tortured with thoughts of his past life. I hope he finds peace someday.🙏

  10. @pockethugoodss on

    My ex boyfriend is a schizophrenic, It was some of the most traumatizing experience ive ever endured. He gave his voices names and personalities he described them like fragments in his mind. He would say things like his knowledge on the world transcends humanity because a deity spoke to him. what ever logic or reasoning did not matter because he always believed that what ever he learned from "god" is a higher power and what ever anyone else would say is by default wrong. he was charged with domestic abuse and was evicted from my home. because he is a first offender his sentencing was light and the state did not screen him for mental illness. He is now homeless. when you see homeless people talking to themselves on the sidewalk it is a stark reminder to me and the situation of what is going on.

  16. @NeonMako on

    Knew someone who did part of their medical studies at one of these, and the stories she could tell were wild!!!

    Takes a special kind of person to work healthcare, and even more to work at these places!

  17. @eye-of-the-oracle on

    31:30 – a medical professional speaking to me like this helped stopped me from having homicidal thoughts. i thought i was so horrible (still do sometimes) for the violent tendencies i was having. i was not far from ending up in jail, and ONLY thanks to medical professionals who really cared about their job and patients, i got better before i made mistakes i would never be able to atone for. i am so, so happy people like this are working in places like that. i'm in the US – i wish i would see something like this taken more seriously.

  19. @ngelicaRodz on

    Any specie that kill a human being unless it is in self-defense, is incompatible to life and should pay for his crimes not being alive in this world.

  22. @ribbityrock14 on

    Un-professionals joking and laughing as they discuss the female patients. Humor is understandable, especially in this job, but for the cameras? As the face of the hospital? Ick. Not cool.

  27. @ZomBeeNature on

    I wasn't sure what I would see in this video. But, yes, I have seen people like this, I have known a few people like this. I have been attacked by people like this, and worse The worse was the guy talked somebody (who was extremely depressed) into helping to kill me. They came within a hair of succeeding, I was riiiiight on the edge of dying. Who would have thought that could happen in real life?

  30. @CrissyLynnB on

    A well functioning mind can be taken for granted. Imagine your in your early 20's, in college, have had friends, played sports, and have a good home environoment. Then you find yourself with your mind suddenly betraying you. You hear voices and see people that aren't there. You no longer know what's real and what isn't. I think schizophrenia is absolutely terrifying because it is through no fault of your own. To be trapped in your mind to me would be worse than the cancer I have fought the last year.

  31. @joshuamcgraw5756 on

    I have to agree with Michael's dad because my best friend of 20+ years is very similar too him and has done similar acts towards people off his medication hes a whole different person 😢