Patient Room

I love how this image shows the cramped solitude of a patients room. The blue color of the room makes for a eeri sensation. Great work.

ive been to KPIA many times and i have seen this room and person and Mottos youn did an exelent job setting the mood!

Oh God, how depressing

i don't know. i actually find this room comforting. i have, um, "seen" the sleeping quarters of another hospital which consisted of a cramped row of beds in large community type rooms. there is no peace, no privacy. and when one is feeling weird on some strange medication, the last thing one needs is a perceived audience or someone on massive antipsychotics staring at you. one would give anything for a room like this one! and what a window!!!

i think that's what appeals to me most in this photograph... the abundance of sunlight streaming in through this impressive window. a window like that can really open up a small room. it actually makes such close quarters appear larger than it really is.

Now that is a very depressing bedroom! If you couldn't get around, it would make anyone crazy!

could maybe do with a quick vacuming, how could people live like that?

I visited someone here in the 70's, it was something till this day i can't forget.

I remember these rooms when they had bed spreads, curtains, pictures on the walls ,( which were painted ), and wardrobes (dressers). Many patients had stuffed animals and throw pillows on their beds too....Not exactly like home, but the staff did try.....

yo has anyone ever visted this place? is it really haunted as they say or is it just to scare people >?

Most people just don't understand me
because when I look out a window
it is not tranquility or serenity I feel
but instead, extreme sadness.
I am not sure why that is so
perhaps it is because
when I look out at say, the trees
or perhaps a skyline of gray
maybe even the ocean
even a beautiful garden
I am not there
but instead, in this room.
it makes me think of happier days
spent with the ones I care about
days that were so pleasing
that I wish I was there
just as I wish I were amongst those treetops
or in that vast garden
and not in a plain room
a plain room in my mind...
where I am not with my loved ones
I am not in the happier days.
-anonymous

oh I dunno... maybe the patient in here at one time felt this way. I just thought combining the poem with this picture was really thought provoking.

aye, but no! no I am not trying to degrade people like you, Lynne... and I'm not trying to degrade anyone here, just so you know. I'm not saying all patients were abused. and I'm not saying all wards were horrible, abusive places where it was living hell. all I'm trying to say i guess, is that everyone has their own opinion. some can hate these "abusive" wards. some can pity the patients, some can pity the staff. all I tried to state in that last comment that maybe, who knows, maybe there was a patient in this room who felt lonely when they were in a ward. I know that I was...

so, sorry if I offended anyone. it wasnt intentional. staff (the good staff anyway) I praise the work you do, the sacrifices you make and the dangers you face everyday trying to get patients help. patients, I know how it feels, because I too was in a ward for some time. and I'm not ashamed. I know not all patients were "freaks" and "insane" and I know that not all staff was corrupt and abusive and inhumane. no matter what the case, I hope that above comment can be viewed as only a mere suggestion/poetic art for the picture, and not entirely what went on in Kings Partk or any other ward as a whole.

Got it. :-)

I don't think that at the time the room was so depressing. Most people were on medication--Antipsychotics, often relieving them of any type of negative thoughts...Also, if you look closely you can see that the wall colors were once blue--Associated with "calm" ..So it's more of a tranquil feeling. Don't feel depressed that these people were confined to such a small space, but think about the fact that there was actually a place for them to receive help (before 1954 /prefrontol lobotomies) when they did not receive it from friends or family they were once close to.

What's more depressing is knowing that medicine has not advanced enough to treat patients that were once there

I don't know, the colour suits the room. It IS so sad to me. To see the mattress still there, so "new" creeps me out. Everything/place hold's a persons vast history and these pictures are all so deep to me.. they are very moving. Losing these places, or I should say, the buildings, at least; is such a travesty.
Thanks, keep them coming

I had a relative that was commited to a room in this very place and he commited suicide in it as well. Might be a bit understandable now that i've seen it. This all happened in the early 1900's.
This work moves me.

I was in there in 1998 and some of the best pictures are missing. Where is the mourge??That was the spookist park of everything...There were also tons of unused needles...

they didnt spend the whole day in their rooms; activities, groups, dining and therapies were administered in common areas.

I dream that there is a young girl with bandages on her wrist and that i fly up to her and her bandages disappear. I have the power to heal people, but when i saw this picture this picture is in my dream. I ask myself why? do you know why?

Hey Jeannette have you or anyone else visited this place after it was close? is it really haunted like the mental place in Roosevelt Island in Queens.....

what happened to the celling?!?!?!

What number building is this in? :)

Comfy !

this doesnt look comfortable pretty small dont you think?

wow.
this is very depressing but in a beautiful way.

i love it.

It must have been hard for the mentally ill patient to not feel more depressed and unbalanced in his views if he had to return in there every night.

This is a small room. It's small and sort of cozy, I can see it as it might of been.

Wow. This sounds nuts, but that is just about the size of my bedroom. I'm not even kidding. It seems weird to hear that it's small and cramped, haha!

talk about a fixer upper it needs major reapairs. Hopefully a billionaire or someone buys the buildings and renovates them and turns them into something. it would be sad to see them domilished.

Of all the hundreds of photos here (all amazing), this one really speaks to me. It doesn't look cramped. It says "refuge," a place to hide. The blue walls are the color of the ocean in the winter.

that is usually an observation room,for patients on close supervision.
The majority of clients shared a dorm together sectioned off by lockers.

Thinking of all the people I've worked with over the years, I think most of them would have felt safer and been more comfortable in a small room like this, with a window to the outside and that didn't have to be shared, than in a large open dormitory with a dozen or more other patients, no privacy, and lots of noise. When a person feels out of control and perhaps thinks the world is out to get him/her, a small private space can be good. I know if given the choice of this room or the dormitory in the previous shot, I would choose this room every time.

parang nakakatakot tingnan ung kwarto dahil parang madumi at prang haunted house na dahl sobrang nakakatakot at prang may aswang good luck sa lahat ng nurse

It does look small but I do agree that I wouldn't want to be in a large 'room' with a whole bunch of people. The no privacy thing would bother me alot to. All the noise too esp if I wanted to get better. So I agree with poster 'dme'...this would be the better choice of the two. Nice photo Motts.....

yeah it actually seems cozy,were im going there isnt much privicey,but im only staying there for a short time,im mostly going for serious depression,and hullicinations.its creepy,but im doing better.

THESE POOR SOULS.. I CAN'T IMAGINE THE PAIN THEY SUFFERED- HOW COULD PEOPLE DO THIS TO OTHER PEOPLE.. MAY GOD MEND THEM SOFTLY..

looks lonely

I feel for the poor souls that had to live in this institution. I cant believe how lonely and sad it looks, as medicines wernt advanced i cant imagine how the mentally ill would have felt having to go through the electric shock treatment etc
. I have studied mental illnesses and i feel empathy for all the individuals who had to stay here........... so sad:(

I'm gonna vaccum up that bed and then jump on it.

this room is terrible. even though they were physciatric patients, they deserve good rooms and stuff. i would killl myself if I had to stay in here

I wonder if they had a telephone or computer access or e mail or wi fi.

A person's a "poor soul" already just suffering migraines.

When I see this photo, I think about the time when I was a patient at a Psychiatric Hospital.
And it looks like the room i had at a dormitory on high school...