Britain's High Dependency Psych Ward (Prison Documentary) | Real Stories

Broadman the world's most notorious high secure psychiatric hospital home to some of the country's most infamous offenders for the first time and after years of negotiation Broadmoor has allowed our cameras in to meet his patients and show what really goes on behind these walls each other a lot of things I've done and the bad mistakes and opportunities are often missed for a second I just remember man here in Bank and one think of playing each other it's the worst worst experience I've ever had before that's been my life like obviously you know when I was in prison I live in six months today and I'm here 13 years and I I'm going to the funny farm I said I would now my I knew I was coming out of bathing I was coming in men acceptable or because they're suffering from serious mental disorders and many have committed violent crimes they are considered too dangerous to be treated anywhere else [Music] many think the Broadmoor is simply the dumping ground for society's most notorious criminals a final destination with no hope of return so luan he's here because of the attempted murder of his mother not terribly bright the weekly ward meeting gives a summary of the kind of men who are kept here the last thing he did was he took his mp3 player and two bits of took the wire from it and a ring a metal ring from it and tied it around his genitalia and he did that in the middle of the night there's only when he was in real pain that he managed to tell member of staff and it's not very clear why he did it chilled good man in prison it became clear that there was something wrong with this guy Broadmoor is home to two hundred men each carefully assigned to one of 50 wards depending on their mental state him he's 33 in next offensive murder he's gone extreme kind of borderline personality disorder antisocial personality disorder he's in this hospital because in a medium secure unit he sharpened a handle of a toothbrush and tried to stab a member of staff in the face patients identities have been protected at the hospital's request Cranfield is the intensive care ward for the hospital's most acutely mentally ill patients the men here are unpredictable and violent and the simple act of serving meals has to be carefully tailored to the individual one of the biggest misconceptions I think is that those that have severe mental illnesses or those that end up in a place like Broadmoor are kind of destined to be unwell forever or to be risky forever and that simply isn't true the mental disorders that we treat are very amenable to treatment it's hard to believe that men locked up like caged tigers and only ever allowed out one by one can ever progress but each ward in Broadmoor is a staging post to their recovery breakfast I'm on Epson a high dependency ward the risk here is a little lower patients here are allowed out to associate with each other with plenty of staff and attendants up to the waist Lianne McGee's the hospital's directors whenever she can she comes back to the floor I love being on the words I've seen the patients I'm a nurse you never lose the this is where you want to be really just butter and your day goes much quicker it's better spending it with people that you're being paid to look after than sitting at a desk you know which sometimes seems somewhat meaningless but there we are right I hope that's okay Trevor yeah come with me breakfast I think there's a difference between being mentally ill and not being mentally ill and I think if you're mentally ill and you've done something that perhaps you are not in full control of at the time you certainly society owes you a break if you have no hope fools have an 18-7 sorry he's doing really well once the risk of violence to themselves or others has been reduced a patient can move to the greater freedom of an assertive rehab Ward Adam has been on Canterbury ward for the past four years before that he spent nine years in Broadmoor in a high dependency Ward six foot by three foot to walk toilet in there the only problem we were having the toilet in there is we've also got our wardrobe in there convicted of arson he was seven years into a life sentence in prison when his self-harm became so acute he was moved to Broadmoor it escalated to the point where I was putting my life on the line on a daily basis of Technology's tendons it's like my hand it's totally constrained and backwards because I've got a wound here well cut all the tendons that I had a very traumatic childhood why I found is that my parent didn't love me as much as they should not I was sexually abused by seven people outside the family and through the sexual abuse self-harm start taking place when I was about eight years old I started off with nails and things like that I was his dissecting father's at that I use well are you so grew up hating everybody hating society 18 life self-harm was away of me escaping all that Adams brought more journey has been long with many setbacks but the end is finally in sight he's to be allowed out on trial leave to a medium secure unit 30 miles away the constant tooing and throwing up patients on this ward can make you forget your embroidery but there's always the reminder that this is a high security for men capable of violence when patients taken in turns to cook careful account has to be kept of everyday household items especially of those that could be used as weapons Dylan is 49 it's his second time in Broadmoor this is how Dylan remembers his childhood I got into mr. Tannen family very very violent in some cases even better to have killed me than to allow me to have this abominable life that I've had my father friend felitti died homeless alcoholic so he was the Bonebreaker you know he may break my bones and leave me in the other could just so I didn't paint very quickly my father raped and beat my mother about it his twisted thinking he could raise a demon from himself kind of help by representing the way they did my when I was born she freaks out what she said though your eyes are evil you're evil and that was it she's just striking at me she ever made many cats food all the time she doesn't keep me locked up in the Attic wasn't allowed to talk to my brothers and my sister she also not the sexual abuse and she was adamant every single Avenue of my charter that was gonna be destroyed and she down on the bestseller all those very fin I'm still my food it was fire that got me away from the home eventually the time I reached five and six I'd love the red much strike on the wall up on what I did to light the gas oven so I took a handful of them to school for the first time I was about to go to kindergarten and I could smell the box of food you know I've been dissemination oh so Scott from my face with big time and set fire to Dylan was in care from the age of 7 to 18 as an adult he became a homeless alcoholic oh I'm an arsonist there's a violent offender lots of drug abuse oh yeah unfortunately I've done some keeping up in really nice a couple of people we have never done any harm to me very very drunk a bottle of vodka in front of the place I saw I had the guns on me if I didn't put a good me knife down a basin was enough to kill me you know hold him secure that wild out-of-control alcoholic it's like me I was inviting them to do that and they you know they've everybody close Dylan psychiatrist is currently assessing whether he's sufficiently recovered for release from [Music] [Music] moving on from Broadmoor is a slow process birthdays come and go with no set date for release [Music] Broadmoor has 800 staff many have been here for years despite the daily risk of a sort it may be a hospital but staff here have to have specialized training and equipment to deal with anything from enforcing medications to managing for scale riots it's unusual training for nursing staff [Applause] this team is deployed around 30 times a year administering medication and disarming patients with weapons not everyone in Broadmoor is directly violent but their behavior can nonetheless cause grave risk to others Antony has been on an admissions ward for five months he's at the start of his Broadmoor journey it's arson that has led to Anthony's incarceration in Broadmoor his mental health began to deteriorate at university when I was 19 started eating good large amounts of cannabis in yeah I had a glimpse of what I thought on cannabis were things that could solve problems for the whole of the world became very grandiose I believe that the sum of the total energy in the universe was God and therefore you were God our God in this bed is effectively God and then nothing just a bizarre and unusual things I plan on grid using the surfing on trains and taken back to hospital because I drove past a police car when I've been high on pavement anyway join that beard it's only broke into my flat and kicked the door down and threatened me my fat the door wipe me in the face I've not being banging a making music on the windows had been a nuisance neighbor but I didn't have no fright night we left our back into the door and lit a fire my window to try and get help send to a medium secure psychiatric unit he again became psychotic and started a fire there this brought in to Broadmoor he's previously been on preventative anti-psychotic medication and now his psychiatrist wants him back on it my introduction to the mental health system had put up a medication that when you wake up you just feel absolutely terrible it can't function can't communicate can't do anything Anthony's refusing to go back on medication my doctor he's saying um well at the moment however he was sort of pointing out that the MOJ and probably the public and general will not accept me in the community of medication so saying that I don't get medicated and I may never get out many of the patients here have a history of substance abuse often linked to their mental illness therapy aims to give them the skills to resist temptation so what we want to do is expose people to some substances today ok 41 year-old Michael is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia he hears voices it was amazing I couldn't believe it I took around the house cuz I was scared I mean if something speaking to your head you know unheard of to me to understand it my team I'd been drugging Jews because I was smoking cannabis heavily at the moment but is it God more deeper than that like a living part in my head the money kind of being you understand I just called me a fool of this deponent they just mentioned it while I was talking it wasn't saying nothing and then I mentioned I came to think of anything call me and yeah I know it's hard to believe unless he live just with just like having a conscious being in your head let's live while medication has diminished Michaels voices it hasn't eradicated them how confident are you not to use Mukhtar has been in Broadmoor for two years it's been the most stable period of his life so far I've never seen my mom never seen my mom you know she's am supposed to be in America see know my whole life I've tried to find out but that's the difficult part because I don't even know a full name [Music] [Music] Moctar run away from foster care when he was 16 and became involved in street gangs and started selling drugs he didn't realize he was also becoming mentally ill I've had a lot of stress stress I kept hearing voices and I kept on attacking people I kept telling being erratic behavior a rival gang warned him off their territory Mukhtar says his drug supplier gave him a gun and told him to deal with him holding the weapon not first stamina and he fell Act now go some extent did feel like know that I'm dangerous no but on the other hand he felt like I'm vulnerable or no armed with the gamma mocked our return to the estate my intentions were gonna fire gun in the air I was certainly run off but these people didn't run off chase me to the block of flats no I'm cornered tell me he move knuckledusters one never gotten a gun like that and pulled it like to try to take it off my hand I was scared I was thinking I'm gonna get killed there so as he grabbed the gun and he pulled away from me I just remember bad hearing back and more think of pulling the trigger it's the worst worst experience I've ever had it's just an 18 january staging found guilty of manslaughter mokhtar was sent abroad more under a hospital order I didn't know the place I didn't know nothing about it I was being told about medication and everything that I'm gonna take I said I don't need medication after my first dose I understood that my voice starts reducing insensitive and that's when I realized that look something is happening now no there's a difference it was different mokhtar is focusing on his recovery and hopes to go to university someday listen it was a long time ago and I can't even remember how I came to the streets but I remember the older shina when I switched on the other kids he's ruthless he's devilish he's a born killer if I knew what I know now I won't be ruthless I wouldn't be a sinner forget that I beat a born winner I got locked up a young age it was a deal to a mistake that I made but all is not lost because I'm here now I'm gonna rise above the clouds I'm gonna what is my dream I dream of reality so why you mad at me I'm just trying to be reunited with my family like everything in Broadmoor getting in and out takes time and follows a strict protocol outfits or seed you're clear to move the school to by nurses Adam has been out to visit the median secure unit he's hoping to move to within the next couple of weeks so there could be no movement a demain here for 13 years he thought he was leaving in a week now it could be months yes thank you November 5 please move health and life it's a big disappointment [Music] [Music] yeah it wasn't a very good day more I did the more depressed I got no in the end I came in here and then I just ended up screaming shouting crying I started so you think that my daughter way to say that getting in there because I'm just about to do something but I've still screaming me they shouted quite there we go normally with a fro fee y'all get up pick the bits up and do something with that you know I didn't at this time sir another thing it shows how far car oh you mean you use the bits to hear yourself not a normal thing to do forty-year-old fine things about but I had to do what I needed to do to get my head out of that situation to show that I was in pain and hanging green stuff like that wasn't but you didn't itself hope I did enough damage I've got a lot of praise for if Adam does self harm he'll jeopardize his chances of transfer out of broad [Music] in Broadmoor staff rely on knowing their patients well enough to be aware of what's going on in their heads they call it relational security this patient believes the hospital is trying to poison him when they hand me something and what it is where anything if it's foodstuffs no that's fine but note how they give my flowers a musky smell [Music] do the same thing seeing the same people they are just madness the thing is it was with you all they were talk about is RC RC RC every single second every single minute every day the way out of Broadmoor is usually along a winding road that eventually leads to a regional secure unit or RSU they're found in towns up and down the country so you do well you are a future Simon has been moving between high and medium dependency walls with in Broadmoor for some years say something about the difficulty of being here some of them I made weapons as well I went and office yeah a personal army a block to a file cabinet at all I just trust the office and I don't why this toilet that's one reason why me and one on it how are you [Laughter] [Laughter] nothing funny about that you understand calm yourself it's laughter there's inappropriate love yeah if somebody's sharing a few weeks later Simon attacked a nurse on his medium dependency ward he's due to return to high dependency it's a step backwards but he's like see on here he likes to staff and he likes to structure so that's why he wants to come back some days for example you'll see him say that on circus today the next thing you'll be grateful now you can have a laugh of it which is good he's one of the funnier ones right they're collecting Simon from the seclusion area in chepstow ward where he's been kept since the incident he's threatened to attack more staff and knees the restrictive regime of a high dependency ward [Music] [Music] it's a walkthrough 10 locked doors to move him to another ward in the same building [Music] [Music] [Applause] we don't like to see anybody coming back but it's a quick fix I mean we get him back in the structure restarting on his medication get him stabilized again then then I'm hoping that he will only back here for a matter of weeks and then we'll progress him back to chepstow and alby's pathway route abroad one no it's a tip on tight so well auntie strangle although later for many abroad walls patience the stability to be found in the strict routine of an institution it may also be the first time they've been looked after had regular meals and consistent interaction with others it's easy to be back to the rules to prepare billion rules to be good Bob Dylan was a homeless alcoholic for years and ended up living in a forest foraging for food he's been on an assertive rehab Ward for four years he's hoping his psychiatrist will let him move on I do believe that you you continue to need treatment hospital okay that respect my view is that you still have a mental disorder the thing is that the team yeah we do not believe that you need to continue this treatment in high-security I'm still caucus I think I still believe that you retreat money condition security yeah anything no get no time for so what do you mean anybody who's young life I mean [Laughter] and to say goes I'm not the only gay the village I know who I am I know I've done inside you know I fought - you old gay man living in a psychiatric hospital people can't accept that for what I am and that's a problem that's not mine you know I just try to make lemonade eleven best situation out of a bad situation Adams still waiting for a date for his transfer to a medium secure unit if it came between you leaving I'm here taking medication what would you do well medication what me personally just downstairs and still stuck on the admissions ward Anthony continues to question his need for medication to make sure that the person giving medication to me I think one of the biggest cruel tees of mental health conditions like psychosis is that often the first thing that will disappear is that understanding that your own behavior and your own thoughts are actually being impacted upon by your mental health risk to the public and without that insight it is very very difficult to persuade anyone that they need treatment so if you can imagine yourself in a situation where somebody is telling you that you're on and well although you don't think so and then they're trying to persuade you to have a medication that might make you sedated or it might make you put on weight that's not an easy conversation to have with somebody we don't force injections on people just because we haven't got anything else to do that day there's no but there's lots of other things that we look into thank you - you agree that medication please for starting some patients just as a prophylactic just to stop the camera well I'm not going to that side of it but it doesn't happen I am saying there are times when we have to give people medication because they become a risk to themselves so what if the mental health is is deteriorated but I'm not discussing other patients witnesses okay thank you make sure everyone else is okay well [Music] Adams got the news he's been waiting for his bed in the medium secure unit is finally available GLaDOS going in is my strength be going in a web it's science world because live look he'd get probably mad with CDs it's his final evening and time for a last movie with his mate there's a lot of film unfortunately yeah I will miss this place it's been my home for nearly 40 years and had people don't like us call in their home but it is home [Music] Anthony's condition had been stable but a few days ago he was forcibly medicated following an incident on the ward when he refused to return to his room and threw himself on the floor singing prayers his brother and his solicitor are attending a meeting to discuss his care then stripped and then medicated and all their symptoms of yes yeah the conclusion relaxing decision I think reviews uncomfortable it is torment it's the debilitating effect of not being able to communicate to be able to have internal anguish and respirations and no longer be able to converse with people that means up when you lose all your friendships you become isolated and then you've got it's physical side effects you don't want to look good your head your head it goes flat and greasy your skin gets away before you put on weight you get sterilized everybody knows your medication and I have sum it up as discomfort I think is a little bit maybe not I know that you are distressed by the sort of medication everyone can hear that but the the trouble is we have a bit of a knack for spending so much time on that that we lose time to help you with other things and we need burst hearing what you want to say about that because it's important not having that be the only thing we ever talk with you about his lack of cooperation is likely to prolong his time in Broadmoor after a second psychotic episode Anthony started taking medication he's been allowed to move to an assertive rehab Ward following his psychiatrist recommendation that he be kept in less secure conditions Dillon is going to a mental health tribunal to see if they will agree I have Toby of being a Bulbul okay I've done one of medication I don't want [ __ ] oops I've done if you think you see the next stage now you know give me a little bit of hope so cuz I'm a one-man band I don't have family i sergeant nothing so if I give up that's it no one's gonna pick me up say what come on unusually the tribunal is over quickly and with everyone in agreement well I don't go in there expecting anything but I've been allowed to be conditionally discharged to and miss you I'm leaving ten times better person and I've ever have been and that my friend is something all those people that done bad things to me in their past will never see I've spoken the chain both more served its purpose [Laughter] [Music] Adam is finally leaving Broadmoor an the hospital's director has come to say goodbye Oh [Music] sowwy Adam is now on trial Lee from the hospital in the event of an incident he could be recalled at any time this has been the first and quite possibly the last chance to see inside Broadmoor Hospital in its current form the lives of today's patients will continue nearby where a new hospital is under construction [Music] these old Victorian buildings have witnessed the troubled lives of so many over Baltimore's 150 year history now there's talk of turning them into a hotel [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 46min 17sec (2777 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 08 2018