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Crescent Window

Amanda's Mom

I really like this room.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

Red Cloth

Amanda's Mom

Pepple don't do it to themselves because they are unwilling to get help. Mental illness is just that, an illness. It changes the way a person thinks. Sometimes it cause paranoia. A person suffering from paranoia is not likely to trust someone to give them help. Also because of the nature of the illness mentally ill people may not realize they need any help.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Memorial Plaque

Amanda's Mom

That just brings out too many feelings to even express.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

Poop

Amanda's Mom

There are more than just spelling errors. There are a great many other errors as well.

Location: Cliffside Hospital  Gallery: Secret Things

Poop

Amanda's Mom

"Is fecal smearing the new "thing" for goth hipsters? Wow, I've been out of the loop."

Gee, if it is I am going to start getting a bit worried when my daughter and her friends take too long in the bathroom!

Location: Cliffside Hospital  Gallery: Secret Things

Cotton Candy

Amanda's Mom

I think the selective coloring is great here. I noticed the face on the cart as well and thought it was kind of ironic, Tragedy. My husband is British. We have had some confusion on occassion from the differences in American and British English. As others have pointed out Candy floss and cotton candy are one and the same.

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Crib

Amanda's Mom

In 1989 my oldest daughter was born with cerebral palsy, deafness and a corpus collusum (part of the brain) which never formed. When she was one week old a doctor approached me about institutionalizing her. I was told she may never even recognize me anyway. Well, I didn't and she does recognize me. In fact she seems to never forget anybody. She is outgoing and loves life. When I see these pictures it makes me so glad I kept her with me. I know places have improved but there is nothing like a mother who loves you and wants to take care of you.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Iron Lungs

Amanda's Mom

My mother had polio. She got it the year before the vaccine came out. Thank God she did not require one of those.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

The Morning

Amanda's Mom

If I came across these in a book there is no way I could walk out of the bookstore without it! These are wonderful!

Location: Northwood Asylum  Gallery: Silence