Do they institutionalize psycotics with people who took special ed?

Like, in mental hospitals, do people who have severe learning disabilities, downs syndrome, severe autism, mental retardation, people in wheelchairs and cannot speak or respond to anything, people who are still little kids in their minds kept in the same hospitals with people who hear voices, see and hear delusions and halucinations, and people who try to committ suicide? If so, do they share bedrooms, do they intermingle douring the day, or do they never see eachother at all?

Don't worry, I don't know anyone in one of these institutions or who is going to be. Just another random question.

Sometimes they are kept in the same hospitals. Most often they are heavily medicated if they are psychotic. I don't think they usually wander around too much for their own safety and that of others. It depends on the hospital, the severity of the patients illness and state laws.

well, one thing you need to realise is tht psychotics are on meds most of the time, and the reason that they are institutionalised is because they wont take said meds on their own, so they need people to make them take the meds. so out of control "psychos" are only dangerous when they arent on their meds. so there's not too much to worry about.

as far as answering your question, i'm sure there are places where both disabled and "crazy" people are housed and interact, and there shouldnt be a problem with tht.

um no because illnesses are treated at special institutions for them. (i.e. there are centers for people with autism if it's so severe they can't live on their own) people who aren't insane live in assisted living facilities. and people who take special ed aren't necessarily that bad off. some of them you walk right by them on the street and would never know it.

People with significant developmental disabilities (mental retardation, audism, etc.) wouldn't usually be placed as a psychiatric inpatient in a hospital. Rather they'd live in a group home for people with their specific condition, where they can recieve whatever level of care and looking after they require.

People with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia or significant suicidal behavior would be placed in a psychiatric hospital on a temporary basis to get their condition under control, get them on medication, etc. People who require perminant care for psychiatric reasons (ex. severe schizophrenia) might be placed in either a hospital, or, more likely, a closely supervised group home or half-way house.

People who are catatonic (can't speak, move voluntary, or respond to external stimuli) would likely be placed in a hospital or nursing home as they require considerable medical care.

Hello squirl,

There are some institutions who treat both mental health and mental retardation, but those are different brain disorders and they are not kept together or intermingle as patients.

It is possible for a mentally retarded person to have a mental illness, in that case the patient might be put on the mental health ward even though he also has mental retardation.

S

no....what you are talking about it a FCC (facility for developmental disabilities) versus a psychiatric ward....I personally have been in a psych ward (I am bipolar) and have visited another friend when he was in....best explaination about people and how they act - the movie Girl Interrupted

No. There are different places for both unless a person with a physical and or mental disability has a mental illness. You would not put some one with cancer in with some one with small pox would you. Unless a person had both would you?

It's obveous you dont know any one with disabilities, get out and meet some disabled people.

Sometimes they are housed together when the person has both a mental illness and one of these other physical handicaps as well. If not they would be on different wings or floors, along with the MIO's, mentally ill offenders.