pegasus64 Welcome back, Motts. It is good to see you again. Hoping that there is more good than bad happening for you...thoughts and prayers to you...

Location: Manicomio Francesca  Gallery: Invasion

	Pegasus64 Tap Bell - as in Bell Jar. For holding tap water? Mouth Gag - to hold open mouth during lavage. That simple. Nothing psychotic, maybe somewhat torturous, but it was decades ago and treatment has changed.

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

	Pegasus64 This would now be labled ICF-ID which is Intermediate Care Facility-Intellectually Disabled. At one point it would also have been DD which is Developmentally Disabled...

Location: High Hills Developmental Center  Gallery: Home in the Hills

	pegasus64 That is why it is known as the 'craftsman" era...

Location: Gentzrode  Gallery: Kahlen Berge

	pegasus64 The tapestry brickwork is amazing. There really aren't the artisans out there anymore that can do this.

Location: Gentzrode  Gallery: Kahlen Berge

	Pegasus64 Shame that all that beauty and practicality have to go to waste. Was it plaster over brick?

Location: Gentzrode  Gallery: Kahlen Berge

	pegasus64 When I first started my job 15 years ago, they used glass jars. Now only disposable ones.

Location: Rathen State Hospital  Gallery: Steam

	pegasus64 It was revolutionary in the treatement of people who were restrained for whatever reason, to keep turning them to prevent bed sores. They used them in acute care hospitals for people with spinal injuries...fastening them to the bed frame and turning them periodically to prevent skin shears and bed sores by redistributing pressure.

Location: Rathen State Hospital  Gallery: Steam

	pegasus64 leg orthotics would be my guess...

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Chop Shop

pegasus64 This may have been in the early stages of realization that some developmentally disabled people were actually "trainable". My cousin had brain damage from a high fever and the doctor told my Aunt that she could just go home and leave her son there and the doctor would put him away for her...she didn't need to worry herself over him. She did take him home and later in life after my aunt died, he was capable of living in a group home because she chose to keep him home and teach him whatever he could learn.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Chop Shop

	pegasus64 This must have been before there was such a seperation of church and state...

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Chop Shop

	pegasus64 Sometimes some of the racing or sports wheelchairs are smaller to allow for more speed and agility.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Chop Shop

	pegasus64 Even if there are no bugs, (that and the fact that I live in a tiny town that has nothing like this around) I guess I am just going to have live vicariously through you! Maybe you can work on the channeling thing? Just a thought...If there are ghosts anywhere these would be the places for them.

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	pegasus64 Looks like one of the video games my kids had where you had to run around this old plant stealing flags and shooting people!

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	pegasus64 Totally Sci-FI...

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	pegasus64 OMG...just realized I have been coming to this site...and telling people about it and posting on facebook about for over 2 years!

Location: Valmea Convent  Gallery: Tangled

	pegasus64 Sorry you have a such a negative view Gordon. There is a lot more involved with recovery-based treatment than a bottle of pills. We can all be glad that mental health treatment has come a long way from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	pegasus64 You are welcome!

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	pegasus64 Yes, Mr. Motts...because the door might shut, or the floor not be as solid in there as it is in the hall, or the ceiling might collapse or what if you start channeling the person that lived there? Or is it that you get their perspective for your pictures? Anyway, I would love to do what you do only I don't like bugs, weeds, heat, humidity, cold, mold or wind.

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	pegasus64 Blue and green were found to be calming, but also cause depression. Red causes aggitation, and yellow cheers people up...at first, then it becomes agitating. Orange causes hunger cravings, white is sterile, but also cold. They study and study color, but the reactions are different depending on time exposed, hue, and even meds people are on.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	pegasus64 Thank God we don't live in that era of "One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest". Residents may still be resistive to treatment, but they are involved in their recovery. ECT can be beneficial, even today, for some. I have seen it make a non-functional person functional.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	pegasus64 The tiles on wall don't look like the regular subway tile, they look smaller, and the freize on the top is great. Where have all these craftsmen gone?

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	pegasus64 I can't figure out if it looks like a drunken, lonely chair or something that is inherently evil...

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	pegasus64 No erica...I think you are right, it is in a different gallery...look at the trees...they look the same as the picture I saved as my desktop here at work. There was a bedside table in that shot. Residents usually didn't have rooms, they had wards, so this could have been part of a resident's ward.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	pegasus64 Were those like side-lights on the door or did they retro-fit a single door into what used to be a double door?

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness