that was so beautiful i think i might throw up

i actually go to the prep(st johns) which is like a half a mile away.i see it everytime i go outside because it is the only hill larger than that of which the prep is located on. the asylum i never even knew existed, will probably now scare the shit out of me and i havent even seen ses.9! ahh

painting happy murals in this place is like putting one of those pine tree air fresheners in an open sewer

The particularly disturbing thing is to imagine what sort of person would lovingly wrap that toilet in a shroud of white linens

Oh, Danvers. What a shame. the really insulting thing is that they tore down that brilliant and historic example of Victorian and Gothic revivalist architecture for some shitty prefab condos

Motts, have you ever been through [edited] a bit high security for a camera crew though, as there is an operational high security hospital there

stupid reporter geraldo rivera. he should be castrated with those paddle things they use on bulls. but anyway the office complex at quincy shipyards have some of those buffalo safe co. safes. they also have german shepherds though = (

places dont need to be haunted, imagination will create such terrors that any real presence would be superfluous. I got chased into worcester state with no flashlight and managed through greater fear of pigs than spirits to remain calm

negative nancy lynne. i spent a great deal of time avoiding drool streams

Lynne is such a negative nancy. medication is used to a very large extent to make patients easier to deal with

I was one time given a forehead seatbelt

these chairs appear very human, clinging to their one ray of sunshine in a world of blackness

institutions like bright colors because on the face of it drab colors look dull and depressing while bright look colorful and engaging. drab colors do in fact encourage calmness and lucidity

this is one of the few situations in which one can effectively anthropomorphize <(how do you spell that) a chair. you can just imagine a scared little animal in a world of blackness and monsters

Whenever it was dark in the ward and i heard metal creaking i would imagine a wheelchair rolling itself down the hall

The thing on the right looks like a pregnant woman

this was built before they factored in that long narrow spaces give the impression that you're trapped in a pit and, while cool looking, are not soothing

Lynne forgets that while it sucks to work there, it sucks to live there worse, because you never get to leave. Theyve got this thing with red carpeting and paint. some guy told me it was so blood wouldnt stain but i think he was just being a dick

what a cartoonishly evil name. i wonder if they thought about it before they decided

They put the polish kids in here and when they ask to use the bathroom the staff tells them to go in the corner. Sick bastards.

BlueSkyes:
ya it is. talk about night terrors jeez

also, they have phased out straight jackets in favor of a new restraint system, belts and a sack. much worse and much harder to get out of

Almost all children and adolescent wards have murals of exotic colorful imaginary lands, typically patients first see them whilst straight-jacketed, being dragged to their cell. I find them hilarious, as I'm never too fucked up to miss a good joke.

Lynne is sorta correct but she doesn't seem to acknowledge that DMH and DSS can badly fuck up peoples lives. i have not met anyone living on the outside who was nearly as insane as someone put into certain foster homes at a young age. it almost happened to me. An abusive overweight father taking pills for his extreme anger problems and a sexually abusive mother (also very obese). had i stayed in such a setting i would've acted out, been locked up, administered mind altering medication, and ended up an institutionalized shell of a person unable to cope with the outside world.

The workers in places such as this are paid extremely low wages and are usually the dregs of society who are themselves in and out of institutions their entire lives. They are, in my personal experience, shitty people. Some of them don't care in a good way ( allowing you in girls rooms, etc.), but most of them are pissed off because their life sucks, and take it out on patients through either excessive enforcement of rules (one flew over the cuckoo's nest) or blatant abuse (use of restraints and other methods of control as forms of punishment). then occasionally you get someone who hasnt been crushed by the weight of the world, their optimism is grating.