psych patients are the most outgoing patients i have had yet

First day being at the Psych hospital and seeing patients. Today and tomorrow i am in the 'outpatient' facility which is patients that come to process groups during the day but go home for the night. interestingly, medical then medicare patients [which are most of them...as their mental illness counts as a disability] covers every single day at these outpatient groups which they stay at from 10am-3pm and the amount they can take are unlimited. they do so because it is cheaper to do this then to have them overdose, relapse, attempt suicide, etc. and need to be placed in an inpatient facility. but, all the other insurance companies cover only 12-15 sessions a year. sad.

first group i sat in was an adult process group that were medium-high functioning adults, in the afternoon i sat in on a substance abuse group. each had young [18yo] to old [60s]. the dynamics were interesting and everyone definitely had issues they were trying to get over. im sure i will have some interesting stories to remember once this rotation is over...