My mother, a Holocaust and Dresden fire-bombing survivor and German war bride, had troubles coping w/us 6 kids, her war memories and culture shock. Instead of some gentle kindness and guidance that she needed, she was forcibly taken away (around 1963), given shock therapy, and locked in a state mental hospital for a year or two. She came out like a zombie, with a far-away dazed look, memory loss and devastating, to her, diagnosis of "crazy". She continued on the Thorazine for decades, occasionally rebelling by refusing to take it. I spoke up, asking why can't she at least just get to try to live w/o it? I now take care of her, and try to find out what I can re. long-term effects of Thorazine, which seems to be kept hidden. She is permanently damaged; on Seroquel now after being kicked out of a psychiatric ward (they couldn't handle her!).

This is beautiful.it;s from something so obscure as a dream

these windows remind me of unblinking eyes of some kind...they are very beautiful.

I'll have bad dreams about this door tonight...*brrr*

reminds me of a hallway in the computer game American Mc Gee's Alice...

I forgot in my first comment on this batch that this is an institution, not a regular school...it's horrible to think that children lived here, :( it's so cold...the windows are even uglier from the inside.

ewww, it looks worse than my schools did. Still, that's where a lot of the beauty is. In the ugliness.

A truly frightening device whatever it is...I agree,can't wait for your next addition:)

It's a sad picture...like the respirator had become the patient's home,and noone really expected them to get out of it,ever.Thank god for modern medicine and vaccines.
It's also uncanny with those signs,especially the hand-written ones.It becomes so real and close in time.

But hey, it lacks a nose =P

My brain loves matrixing, it's so entertaining to look for faces in the peeling paint ;)

Such a neat little Giger monster...

claustrophobia...I'd rather drop dead than being inside one of those!!

I want the peach colored one=),no,seriously I don't.

Doesn't look too decomposed to me(reminds me of when I was 18 and worked in the kitchen at an asylum,it was about 1991 I think),when was this place abandoned?

jars again...yuck.But it's a great shot nevertheless:)

The jar with liquid in it is just too gross (it nauseates me, I'm having problems keeping dinner down here)...apart from it, it's a morbidly amazing shot.

Into the abyss...horrible and awesome picture.Probably your best chair-shot so far.

toilet paper still on the roll..?

yep,the child at the bottom left of the window..:P,funny,someone pointed it out at a ghosthunting site.

I can imagine they do :P

70`s,70`s tacky interiors....*lol*,great shot.

Looks like it's still in use,almost...

Why does these shots make me think of "The Shining"?:P

Can't believe you left these goodies behind;) 80's kitsch rules..

This picture is incredibly disturbing,pit of oblivion must be Pennhurst itself...