Parting Message

Perhaps the mad rentings of a disturbed mind.

Wow, that is pretty eerie, it's so friendly and then...not so much so.

Yes a disturbed mind. Who wouldn't be disturbed by being locked up in a hell hole. I believe this note smacks of suicide. Pushed beyond the cry for help.

i think its incredibly sad

A Very Powerful Picture And A Very Emoitional Poem Very Good Find

I didn't want to post this in case someone got offended (and if you take offense I apologize in advance), but speaking of song lyrics, all 3 of the following songs have "leave me alone I want to go home" or something similar in them (Big D and the Kids Table - "G.L.D.", Marty Robbins - "Devil Woman", and the Beach Boys - "Sloop John B"). I was actually humming "Devil Woman" under my breath when I saw this the first time.

As an FYI and as your friendly curbside consulting psychologist this particular message is not something I personally would be too worried about unless there was a lot more to go with it. Truthfully it sounds a lot more like someone signing their yearbook at the end of the school year, or someone writing on the wall of some place they aren't supposed to be.

With any interpretation of notes, messages, and pictures, you have to have the context or you will make some pretty piss-poor diagnoses. Ironically, this is exactly the reason why so many people ended up locked in asylums in the past. All it took was the context of thinking that someone might be "disturbed" and then the presence of any note, message, or picture would be reinterpreted as a sign of sickness. That was the entire message of the Rosenhan experiment someone mentioned in another posting - that as soon as you are told that someone is mentally ill you start looking at everything in that context and omitting anything that smacks of mental health. If you know this note is on the wall of a secure facility it becomes a sign of mental illness. If you see this in someone's high school yearbook it doesn't look that "sick" at all.

However, I admit that it's always more fun for people to think they are eavesdropping on the ravings of disturbed minds - until they have to be in the same room with them. ;-)

that note says it all doesnt it. I WANT TO GO HOME...someone finally put to words what everyone in one of these institutions probably thought every day of their existance there. that really says it all i think . shame most of them never got to go home...........

It says something...

Very small. At the top.... Motts, do you have the original, full quality? Maybe get that photo, zoom in and take a look. what does it say?

"in joy your " is all that I can make out

ohhh...

Very interesting....

i could have written that. i already have music for it. wonder if i could use it... always give credit where credit is due. i can even include "in joy your summ" and "happy easter to all my friends". how can i get the rights?

This is so sad. The message speaks of such desparation and a feeling of being forgotten. The person simply wanted to go home, but no one listened or probably cared. It really brings tears! It also speaks of someone so just lost and separated from everything that they loved.

Just reading this put the song Sloop John B in my head. And that song is sad to me even with the upbeat.

Wondeful photo for the last shot in this gallery.

i love the contrdictions in this message, as really all goodbye messages are, there about the reality of leving and the lie of how you feel about going!

wow
thats really sad
i cant even picture living in somewhere like that
i would have probably done something like that to

That stanza eerily resembles something from an Evanescence song. Sad, beautiful, and haunting at the same time.
I am sure most of you enjoy listening to that band.
I think this has something to do with suicide. I am not too sure, but the lyrics pretty much sounds like it.

Quite a "Bi-Polar" message- starts out on a nice note, and ends very negatively.

They want to go home, but where is that?

Wherever he prospers.

--Aristophanes

Perhaps it was written in malice and sarcasim. The picture, strangly, almost makes me actually want to cry. Its so...eerie and depressing. I could just picture being alone from everyone in a cell...

This reminds me of a bi-polar woman I used to work with in a studio. We had a blackboard where every day every artist was to put something on it, whether it was a quote, a drawing, a poem etc.
Well, this woman was always leaving messages like this one here, I always felt she was a time-bomb, but what do I know.

Unbelievable! Liam O' Keefe

What a sad note, its nice and rude all together.

it almost looks like they lost their train of thought halfway through the note and it came out more honestly than they expected.

Maybe they were written at different times. They are obviously the same handwriting, but considering there were other messages, maybe "Enjoy Your Summer, Take Care" was written at one point (it is all the same size and written on the same slant), and then the author added the message "Goodbye, and don't speak to me, leave me alone, I want to go home" another time. The writing is smaller and on a different angle.

I agree with Lynne's comment. It isn't so disturbing when you take it out of context.

When I read it, it makes me think that it could of been written by someone at a different time. Almost, dare I say it, as a joke.

way I see it is someone writing a note to someone who's "goin home for the holidays" but there not so instead of sayin goodbye the wrote them a note and don't want them to speak and say goodbye and stuff before they go because that would annoy/upset them because they really want to go home but they have to stay...does that make sense :)

I wonder if the first part is the family saying "goodbye" and then what they really meant... don't talk to me, leave me alone. And then to wrap it up, a PS from the writer "I want to go home"

I agree with Cale. My thought when I read it was that the person was saying goodbye to a friend without seeing them face to face because it was too hard.

THAT IS FREAKY.

Could be an inside joke. Reminds me of the notes I'd write to a friend when we parted for the summer. Taken out of context, they'd be misunderstood.

the firts part is written by someone else, you can tell by the way the 'A' is written on the lines. But thats not really that important.

I enjoyed the pictures in this gallery.

The person who write this was probably a Schizophreniac.
Motts you have a good site and have alot of
"testicular fortitude. Lokking at all your pictures makes me nervous. It reminds me of when i read Stephen King's IT.

I was wondering if you accepted other people pictures of abandonded places

there is an abandonded meat packing plant whre I live. I feel like going in there one day

so creepy - making .

very suicidal ; who wouldnt be , being cooped up in a place like that
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"I want to go home! Take of this uniform and leave the show! i´ve been waiting in this cell because I Have to know! Have I been guilty all this time!" - Pink Floyd, The Wall

It's really hard to guess at the writer's meaning when all we have are the words. Just last night I watched a tv program about body language and how we really need to have facial expression, gestures, voice, and the words themselves if we are to make accurate judgments. When one of my children was in junior high, a classmate heard about something her boyfriend had said, and with typical teen-age girl hyperbole said, " I'm gonna just kill him!" An adult overheard the comment, took it way out of context, reported it, and the girl was suspended indefinitely. She was only allowed to return to school two weeks later, after having psychiatric and psychological evaluations to prove she was not dangerous. I know we have to be concerned about violence in schools and elsewhere, but we have to make sure we're paying attention to the right signs, and that those signs really do mean what we think they mean. Perhaps the writer of this note was merely quoting a song s/he liked.

While almost every single picture on this site is extremely fascinating, this one actually gave me chills and goosebumps.

its really really sad..

A great site.. To paraphrase Nietzsche,
"I' find madness to be relatively rare in the individual, but quite common in the herd" The word "herd" in reference to most of "us." Nietzsche saw the coming collective madness in 20th century man, and it's all to obvious that ominous signs of madness posess our world today-a relapse perhaps. These photo's are simply the abyss staring back! Great Site!

Once again, we have all been 'schooled' by Lynne...am I the ONLY ONE that finds her the most irritating person that comments? She seemingly is screaming for attention (good or bad)-the only person who insists on posting multiple paragraphs. Why do you all bow down to her?

Meh, I agree with the poster who sees this little screed as mostly sarcastic and somewhat self-pitying. That's not meant as an insult to the mentally ill; I've been hospitalized myself on more than one occasion. It's hard not to feel sorry for yourself at times in places like these! :)

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Found a copy of the same picture above at this link, along with a longer version of the quotation... when I searched the quotation it comes up with several references to Anton Chekhov, but I cannot find any exact version of the quote other than above.

I agree with sunsetblvd1... Isn't this a place to share personal opinions on the photographs or your own experiences? Not to give a full length essay or lecture on what we should all be believing, feeling and seeing. I think she needs get come down off the horse... Yes some people may give cooky comments but isnt that the great thing about the freedom of speech? FREEDOM!!! ^ ^

Hahahahaaha I'm kinda laughing at the fact that Lynne insists she is the authority of all persnal opinions... Maybe shes the one who will never be "free" from all that time walking hospital corridors... Perhaps inside she is a "patient" herself...