Stairwell

THIS MAKES ME SAD... THEY WERE SICK NOT ANIMALS.

on the very top floor in the stairwell in the hospital i work in, they have caging also.

Motts: With your knowledge of these places, would you say the caging was a later addition? I'd think when it was built, this safety measure was not in place. Maybe later due to necessity it was added. (It has been mentioned before that building codes...etc, are always changing....)

dats fukin awsome

this is nothing !!! it was more scarry then this when it was opened!! i was there for 31month for depression ,even thou i wasn't that sick I can tall some stories that you wouldn't beleave and I happy i was there for 1 month. they make you feel worthless and noun human and that just a start.

I can remember standing, holding my mothers hand, waiting for my soon to be addopted brother Dana to come down the stairs just like thease, and home with us. Again, haunting, but pleasing in the same. Thank you again Mr Motts

Looks like the stairwell where the guy in the move was standing, when he said, "what are you doing here." Had that thing in his eye.

it is that stairwell from the movie session 9 they filmed it here

i was reading an interview from a worker from here and he sed that when he worked there. there was a 15 year old kid who crwled up in the air ducts and slidd in to the heating coils. for about 3 day they started to smell a very bad smeell they cut open the vent and he was all burned up. he sed they had investigators and people there for weeks

I remember these stairs from the movie "Session 9"...pretty creepy to see the same place on here!

No, they were not animals. But you must remember, they WERE mentally ill, and in many cases they were a danger not only to others, but to themselves as well.

Reminds me of the elementary school I went to in Ohio. The stair well was similar to this... when I look back on that ,the school was more like an asylum than the mental wards I've worked in.

Yes remember this from the movie, not sure I would want to be standing there !

Looks like a nightmare !!!!!

Session 9-"What are YOU doing here?"

wow...i feel for the people who had to live there...they went there without a problem in the world... and by the time they leave...(if they do) then they would leave with more problems then they went there with...Sad<3

The state of these places now make them look scary and as if they would drive someone insane, but that definitely wasn't the case when they were open. The people who had to live there *did* have problems - that's why they had to live there. They were much better off here than out on the streets.

Just so every one knows. The wire mesh was installed there to stop 2 things. #1 suicides by jumping. #2 to prevent escapes. DSH was a dedicated lunatic asylum. Medical care was provided, but it was not the prime concern of the hospitals staff. Hand me my soap box someone.

For the last 30 years at least, you had to earn a spot in the hospital. The court had to send you, You had to go there yourself and ask to be admitted. The cops could bring you if a psychiatrist examined you and thought you'd benefit from an involuntary 10 day commitment. It took some real effort to get in. Oh lest I forget your insurance at a private booby hatch had run out and you were in need of care still.

Gone were the days of two medicaql docs signing you in. Families can't commit you without court involvement. Not to say the court involvement was difficult to obtain. It's gotten even harder to get in these last few years We actually have waiting lists. People are diverted to community hospitals for acute treatment and if a 6 week stay in a community hospital, then a trip to the state is indicated. It is now a very legalistic process to get into a state mental hospital. One where there is an advocte for the patient at each step.

Where's Hank?

i have to agree with big ed he has got it down

What the mesh didn't stop was people throwing themselves down stairs. Happened a few times. The mesh did prevent bad hops through the railings into free space. So when ever possible one staff person walked in front, and one behind known suicidal patients going between floors

that would be scary my gym teacher went to police school and learned how to restrain people the right way