that sounds like just about every psych patient that's inpatient for a mood disorder.

Yes, I agree with that. But I wasn't brought to a mood disorder ward. I was brought to the ward where high-risk psychotic and/or violent patients are brought to - or when the mood disorder wards runs out of space. Violence is fairly common there. Physical violence may happen a few times a week, verbal violence on the other hand is daily business.

because you're not like all the other violent, harassment inclined patients.

in reference to the patients on that closed ward - yes. There are three other open wards and the patients there are non-violent because those wards don't take violent patients. The closed ward on the other hand DOES take violent patients which - guess what - results in a collection of violent patients - yes. What exactly is so difficult to understand about that? If a ward doesn't take violent patients and there's a dedicated ward for those kind of patients then the demographic of that ward just is quite different than the open ward. If you punch other patients you'd be thrown out from the open wards and relocated down to where I was relocated. Thus yes, the patients there are violent. Not all of them as they also specifically take patients with psychosis who are not all necessarily violent and if the other wards run out of space they will take anything so it's not true that all of them are violent but a significant portion of them are violent because that's again ... what that ward is for.

How is this a negative view? Is it negative to call a violent patient violent? Is it not okay to distance yourself from violent patients? Is that so horrific?