She stepped through the doorway, not knowing what awaited on the other side. What met her gaze was nothing more than amazing...

This is indeed a wonderful photo.
Can you imagine being caged in like an animal?

Freedom on the other side of a locked door...only open now when the patients are no more...

No view he found inside his prison. Every window was the same, and now he waits, his final sentance. Fore he was never insane.

Imagine the screams that echoed from that room. In fear that her voices would kill her. Fearing the "shocks". Destroying everything in her life in one fatal swoop, her world had ended.

But it was ominous, the procedures that were performed in that room not only increased the severity of the patient's condition, it also killed many patients through dangerous and unethical practices.

It makes you feel like you are visiting a hotel or a relative's home, while is all reality you are being with held from the world because someone thought you were insane.

It's no wonder why there are claw marks by the door. Many who were put in those rooms did not leave them until they were released or dead.

One dares enter here. Silent screams echo a past that is dark and sinister. All alone you dared to face the nightmares of your delusions, confronted by your darkest fears. Many died in such rooms of delusion, twisted by treatment and wading in pain.
The persons in the seclusion ward were usually the most delusional, or troublesome patients. They were left in the rooms alone for up to weeks at a time, only allowed out for regular shock, hydro or other therapies. Meals were served in the rooms. And there was no patient interaction what so ever.

This is a place that no sane man would enter, if there where any patients left. The violent ward was dangerous, between those who heard voices and those who feel that killing is justified. Many staff in such a ward did not encounter a patient alone.

Another thought,
She sits in the chair waiting for her sister, who told her she was comming soon. The doctor tells her it won't be long till your free and on your own. Her nerves get her and a scream escapes her lips, and another year she'll have in her own created bliss.
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Just a thought,
A man sitting in that chair, talking to himself as nurses pass by his door. The voices in his head tell him to attack, but the locked door tells him there is no way out.

This device is nothing more than torture to the person who was subjected to it. This device is somewhat of an immobalizer, a person would be attatched to the device and suspended or positioned by it. This allowed medical staff to examine and treat illness. However this form of medical restraint has been known to kill patients.

That is rather disturbing. Just the thought of someone, having died from TB then disected on that table, makes me think of how frighting that photo really is.

Brilliant! I never thought that a photo like this could be taken without the photographer becoming afraid. Kudos! I wonder, just how many people where stored there???

One of the more obsolete creations of the time. The iron lung was nothing more than a large air tube. It really did nothing to help the patient. Where did you find someone to pose in that photo, considering it is more than likely that someone died in that tube.

The laughter of the insane danced acrossed that ceiling. Mingled with the weeping of some hundred patients that were misdiognosed by a time in which much was mistaken for insanity.

Such a grand room. It's a wonder that the room survived so well. Just think of the unfourtunate (Insane) souls that spent their time in that room...sends a shiver down your spine.

Although this is a wonderful photo, that is the decontamination room aka sterile field. These types of rooms where used for sugery and expiramental therapies that usually resulted in death.

I enjoy this photo, I think that it would be alot more interesting if you hadn't told us that it was a friend. But, the photo in and of itself is dynamically beautiful.

That is not a room I would like to stay in. In all honesty, I think that pink is an awful colour.

Large airy rooms where thought to benefit the patient by letting them enjoy the air outside rather than the contaminated air on the inside. Though this was proven to be false and many patients died, the practice of this technique survived, and is still being used today.

Once again, a wonderful photo. Congrats for such a good eye!

Very good use of the lighting. The play on light and dark is used to your advantage. But, you have to wonder, who was in that bed last? Did they die or recover? Those things also play into such a dinamic picture.

I really like this pic. Yeah, that's about it...