Tales from the Nuthouse: Lest You Think I have a Really Suck Job

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by Sun_Sparkz

Have you ever had a patient where you can really just not see why he is so screwed up. just someone who you think - nope. no help for you, your born bad and you should be locked in a dark cell for the rest of your life. someone who you think - there was never any hope for you. cant see a good bone in your body.

Or is everyone saveable?

Some people are just plain broke in my opinion. This one kid we had come to us one evening was this skinny little white 14 year old. He'd been picked up down in the 9th Ward of New Orleans by the sheriff's department before he'd been shot. I was working with Big Al Laurent, 6'6" and 350, hence the big part. When the kid arrived on the ward he took one look at Al and yelled at the top of his lungs "Fuck you, you fat nigger!" Al's creole by the way. Yeah, the kid really knew how to make an entrance.

One of the highlights of the evening was when he ran and hid under one kid's bunk and we had to wake that kid up. It's really disturbing to the milieu to have to tell the paranoid kid on the ward that we were waking him up to pull another crazy kid out from under his bed...

Anyhow, back to the broke part, the new kid's mother was a deaf, schizophrenic, alcoholic, chain-smoker who had been raped by another resident of the institution she was sporadically required to attend.

You tell me, what is the likelihood of this kid turning out right?