I just read a book about Pilgrim. The quote is a summery of how desperate and lost the patients of Pilgrim State Hospital were. The patients suffered chocking back their truth as any statement other than they were doing fine - brought severe consequences. Laughter left this place because it was over all a living hell. Your only hope was to be good, don't talk about your problems, tell the doctors your medicine or electric shock therapy was working and pray that they would let you out of there. Death was no stranger to the patients and often they got well as a way to escape death. Doctors believed by punishing patients it releaved their feelings of guilt. Patients were given 150 volts of electricity without anastesia, as well as being kept bound in a camisole, in a cold tub for hours, a sedative pack which were lined with wet sheets and blankets and the use of "scotch Douche" which is spraying patients with alternating forceful warm and cold sprays. Many people also died from syphillus, TB and other common illnesses. This is not a stoic statement....it is just SAD.

omg ive been watching websites about this place for 4 years and never seen one pic inside. ive always been iwanting to know what inside since so many websites show only the outside.thanks