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To: Joss who wrote (100466)	6/11/2004 5:26:56 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Steve, I worked at a mental hospital, too, between high school and college, but it was for the retarded, not mentally ill. Porterville State in California. They closed it down about the same time I joined the Army. I don't know what happened to the kids. Many were trainable and/or educable, but some couldn't function much physically or mentally. But, as you said, some of the employees were out there. We had a mental hospital in The Bay Area called Agnew State (made me chuckle every time I heard the name of Nixon's first VP), and many of the workers at Porterville would take sabbaticals as patients at Agnew. I worked with the worst of the patients and our ward was pretty good care, as the kids couldn't do anything for themselves. But stories from the other wards were kind of scary. Lots of babies born thx to employee/patient relationships. I thought that was really sick.