This situation only shows that so many people think that people with mental illness do it for attention, and they are not truly sick. The fact that someone who is meant to care for these people was so arrogant about this admission, I have to shake my head. So utterly wrong. As a teenager I saw the inside of a few of these wards. With a friend in dire need of help, they were in and out. Some of the staff were wonderful, others were absolutely pants . Nearly ten years on, looking back, I'm passionate about things like this. I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly and in all nursing you should only see good.