What's It Like to Work in a Psychiatric Hospital? - Day in the Life of a Mental Health Technician

In this video I give a comprehensive overview of what it's like to be a Mental Health Technician at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Here are the topics I cover along with the timestamps for each:

3:40 - The Training Process
6:26 - Daily Routine
23:54 - Hospital Units
35:32 - Positives of the Job
39:07 - Downsides of the Job
49:55 - Uplifting Stories
55:36 - Horror Stories
1:09:00 - Funny Stories

Here's a link to my video that discusses how to talk to a delusional person:    • How to Talk to a Delusional Person  

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Video Notes

Working as a Mental Health Technician (or patient caregiver) at an inpatient psychiatric hospital is a very rewarding yet demanding job. The main responsibilities of the job are observing patients to ensure their safety, helping to carry out each patient's treatment plan, and being a source of emotional support for the patients.

Psychiatric hospitals are usually divided into units that house patients with similar diagnoses. There's often a crisis unit for patients experiencing psychosis and hallucinations, an adult unit for patients experiencing anxiety and depression, an addiction/detox unit, and a teen/children's unit. Depending on the hospital, you can request to work in the unit you most prefer.

On a daily basis you'll be working with patients who are (or recently have been) suicidal and/or are incapable of making rational decisions due to psychosis, hallucinations, and delusions. Psychiatric hospital employees face a significant risk of being physically attacked by patients. In addition, as a mental health technician, you can expect to be in stressful situations on a regular basis. The upside of this is you also get the opportunity to make a major impact on the lives of the patients you work with. You will routinely have the chance to help others turn their lives around.