What it’s really like working on an NHS psychiatric ward [Video]

Many psychiatric wards are kept under lock and key, but one NHS doctor is throwing open the doors to give people an insight into what working in acute mental health is really like. 

Dr Benji Waterhouse has been a psychiatrist for 10 years, specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. 

His role is not to be confused with a psychologist (or a psychic), things he’s previously been mistaken for but are very different jobs. The 39-year-old is in fact a medical doctor who learned how to treat the body, before moving on to the mind.

‘Psychiatrists are doctors, so we can also prescribe medications, and boy do we,’ he tells Metro.co.uk.

Dr Benji currently works part-time as a locum consultant psychiatrist in Londonand most recently he’s been helping at a Crisis Assessment Centre, which he describes as n A&E for mental health problems. He also covers psychiatric emergencies for three actual A&E departments …