This is like walking the stairway to heaven. The light is awesome and contrasts with all that darkness.

I am told that many mental facilities has these pools used as therapy for patients. I do not know if the facility I was in had one or not as that place was huge and I was only in one part. Southwestern State Hospital in Thomsville, Georgia was one I was in for two months just this year.

this is a stunning pic. I love all that plexi-glass...I think that what it is and how spell it. I wonder of it would have thrown prisims upon the floor and ceiling.

Errie, errie, errie!!!!

Oops...I got out of the hospital on first of May. I always thought mental facilities had barred windows, however, the one I was in, it had small square window with wire mesh panes.

I have kept quiet on my tours of these few sites, the Severalls Asylum, the Hellingly Asylum, and the Metropolitan State Hospital, and on this pic, I have to say, I love the lone chair pics! Matter of fact I love all your pics. Of course since I been in the mental hospital from March the first 2006 til first of June 2006, I have not been around any computers! Then when I got out of the hospital, my computer crashed and been without one for three months, and now I have it back, working great, and enjoying the wonderful pics of Mott's!

I think I need some ativan. I sure could use it about me. Too much info into a small mind as mine. Spidergirl sure has her moments. Woe is me.

Okay, you all making me loopy. I live in southwestern Georgia close to Florida state line. I went and flushed our toilet and it flushed counterclock wise. I never noticed that. Learn something new every day!

is it me, or is a certain spider person hyped on abuse? I am not saying anything against her mode of sentence structure and mispelling, but her attitude toward abuse. My daughter is hard of hearing and she words her sentences same as Spidergirl, so that no problem for me. It the way she hypes about children being abused and such. Makes me shudder. Gee whiz!

When was a shaker machine an item for abuse? Gee, Spidergirl, get real! As a teenager I loved playing on my mom's and only abuse I had was an itching fanny, but felt good nontheless! Not everything was abusive. What seems barbaric to us in our time, was probably legit in their time. To truly realize what went on in this place, you would have had to be among them. All we have is heresay and tales of abuse and neglect, and we truly not know if this is fact because even papers and by word of mouth could be intentionally false. Sure, some staff person who was tired and maybe had problems took it out on some patients, but we cannot group all of them together. There are many staff that are good and just trying to do their job the best they know how. I praise them for their efforts.

I heard many bad rumors about the mental facility where I was sent to, and I was scared to death, they had a rap for being abusive and mistreating patients. However, I was amazed how nice the staff were and tried make my transition into institutional life easy as possible. I learned never listen to rumors unless you find out the true facts yourself.

Just my thoughts on this...I know many people think different.

Please excuse my spelling and word order.

When I was sent involuntarily (spell?) to the mental hospital for suicide tendicies (spell?) I was under strict suicide watch, and I no could bath alone nor use toilet without some there with me. It was shameful have guard over me and under lock and key, however, I thankful now I was no left alone and was monitered much. If not, I would may not be here posting this comment. I would have suceeded in suicide. I know many prefer their privacy, but when comes to safety, then privacy has be placed on secondary and not primary. Hope this makes sense. I no good with word structure, sorry.

Definitely Silent Hill 2 and 3! Love those games!

If I am not mistaken, I think I read where the hospital was also used as a psychiatric facility when the TB part closed. I may be wrong and if I am, forgive me.

please excuse my bad speling and word sentence structure.

this pic creepy much. My brother-in-law is mortician in middle Georgia and he can tell some great strories pertain to coffins and the deceased. Al his bedrooms has child coffin crates made into bedside tables. he and his wife very wealthy indeed. He says he is never out of a job.

I feel I am stand in middle of room. Walls closing in and maybe going to squeeze me shut. Or better yet, going to topple upon me.

why does it look like wheel tracks going up and down the hallway on the floor? Or is just me?

I see a child painting a tree house, and that is how he saw it in his mind. The trunk of the tree, and then limbs and then you can see the small door, and them things look like eyes, they is maybe his small friends. I see actually peace in this room, no matter the decayed look.

I went back and read the intro and Mott did say it was converted into a mental facility later and I guess that is where I thought it was a mental facility. Oopsy on me!

I guess all my comments are off kilter, and many pardons. Just ignore ongoing comments on this site from me as I thought I was touring a mental facility.

Oh my land, pardon me so much as I thought I was inside a mental institution. I said I was lousy at reading,, must be true. Gee, makes me feel like a horse's patoot.

Thanks Lynne, I apprecaite the link to the Kirkbride. I think these structures are so awesome!

this archway is stunning. I like how the light's reflection off the wall is waning and soon to be faded from view. It is sad in a way, just like some of the yesteryear patients, some fading from view in time.

Wow! The Door! My house is doors that could be that door's siblings! Our house was built in 1930, and many of the things that were her when my late-husband and I moved here, was antique and these old in-floor furnce grills gives me the chills when I walk by them. I hate them things and alas husband got killed before we could have them removed.

thank you, Motts for these galleries of yours. It is true, each photo speaks in different way to different people because we all are unique. I love these galleries and all the comments, as the people who comment seem like a family members and I have not even been in this site all that long and I can feel the comradship (spelling?) in these comments. Thanks for let me be part!