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Claustrophobia

Claustrophobia

This small, narrow area was painted a bright and agitating salmon pink color, with small rooms leading off on each side.
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It appears as though some creature clawed it's way across the lower walls of this hallway... Very interesting image.
Roxie Z
Fri 05-13-2005
I find this picture very disturbing to look at.
catlea
Sat 05-14-2005
As you pointed out about that hallway at the Bennett school, such a narrow corridor would never be allowed with today's fire codes.
Max
Wed 06-08-2005
I myself am a little claustrophobic, and i find this picture really scary to imagine myself there... thank God for todays fire codes!!
Aly
Thu 06-16-2005
I love this picture!
~Me
Fri 06-17-2005
no wonder the people in this place were crazy!
~juew
Sat 06-18-2005
I find this one really disturbing aswell,not just the claustrophobic feel but the color,the way it looks like claw marks on the wall,the whole thing.I think just looking at pictures of these places transmits a tiny bit of the negative energy in them into your mind.
Orchid Lunar
Wed 06-29-2005
The hallway looks like it gets smaller as it goes up. I am not claustrophobic but imagining myself in that hallway freaks me out.
Matthew D. Broder
Thu 06-30-2005
Current research has found that the color "pink" has a very calming affect on people who are upset. They use it in jails frequently today. Works like a charm apparently.
Jill B
Jill B
Tue 08-02-2005
It looks kinda red to me...
Mollie
Tue 08-16-2005
Even the lamp seems to be painted red... Or am i mistaken`?
hrm
Sat 09-03-2005
A building like this would make anyone crazy. Talk about feeling trapped....
Viveka
Sun 10-23-2005
I'm seriously disturbed by this *shudders*
Pepper Pot
Thu 11-03-2005
Its almost like this hallway never ends.That's not what I call
a good picture, more horrorfying
Norman D
Thu 11-17-2005
I don't find this picture disturbing at all. It's because of all the light. There's even a light at the end of that long corridor. That hallway is like life itself, clawing your way throughout it.... it's all red and painful, but the room straight ahead is green which is one of the most calming colors. Still it indeed is claustrophobic but fascinating....
Metallic Kitty
Thu 11-24-2005
"Claustrophobia" is the perfect name for this photo. Normally one would think blackness closing in, but these high pink walls with their weird bouncing light are like an optical straitjacket. Makes your breath tighten in your throat....
yvenne
Mon 11-28-2005
eeeek! very strange, looks as though someone has tryed to escape, terrifying.,...
caitlin
Tue 11-29-2005
That color isn't good for patients at all...it would aggitate them even more. And a closed in space is not what a mentally ill person needs. I can't believe the conditions they put the mentally ill through.
Luna
Wed 11-30-2005
Well. My goodness. :-)

[Notice the incredible restraint.]
Lynne
Thu 12-01-2005
hey Lynne, wouldn't you agree that this is a terribly small room to put patients in, and how dangerous putting in a set of stairs, they could kill themselves on those >;-)

come on Lynne, give me what for!
Live
Thu 12-01-2005
But, but, but . . . . but darlin', this is just a hallway! =8-o

Although mebbe they just want us to THINK it was a hallway and mebbe it was really just another way for those people to torture the poor souls who were caged there like animals, treated cruelly and savagely by their sadistic captors, tortured and experimented upon in the very prime of their lives by sickos with nothing better to do than - well, whatever it was that they had nothing better to do THAN. Oh, the humanity! 8`-(

Or is it, "Oh, the IN-humanity"? I never can remember. Guess I'm just too busy being an asshat most of the time. >;-)
Lynne
Thu 12-01-2005
hehehehe
awesome.....awesome to the max
Live
Thu 12-01-2005
Interesting how the paint is peeling so dramatically in the places where people would have brushed against the walls and left sweat and oil from their skin. If not cleaned thoroughly later coats of paint might fail there first. Or it could just be the nicks and scratches letting moisture in. Maybe there is evidence of humanity in the very patterns of decay?
Soopergrape
Wed 01-25-2006
SO NARROW! VERY DISTURBING PICTURE OH MY!
MARIA
Sun 03-12-2006
I must say, looking at this picture some more, you really truly have captured claustrophobia on film. I'm not a particularly claustrophobic person (except for elevators, but that's a different story ;-)) but this one does make my heart pound faster. Do you happen to remember how narrow, in retrospect, this hallway was? I know it was a long time ago so I'm not supposing you might, but who knows what the mind can recall? Some strange things to be sure!
Barbara
Mon 03-13-2006
Lynne, hmm. sarcasm is very becoming the way you do it. your a rock star
kb
Tue 03-21-2006
this has silent hill or house on haunted hill writen all over it! lol
beatngu
Wed 03-29-2006
Makes one wonder what sort of patients ended up in that section.
AutumnTwin
Fri 04-07-2006
yes thank you thank you mr. motts for helping me rember something thank you
from under your bed
Sun 05-07-2006
It's creepy to think about being in that hallway......
Average Jojo
Sun 05-14-2006
im not creeped out by this one. we have a very similar vile salmon hallway where i work.. it gets a funny feel to it in half light.. i think i might be immune to weirdy decor.
novocaine
Wed 05-17-2006
I get like a nauseous feeling looking at this hallway. I can just imagine being dragged toward those stairs with the light. Its just very omnious or something.
DB
Thu 08-03-2006
this is one of those times I hate being overweight >< I'd probably get stuck in there! no kidding!
J.R.
Wed 10-04-2006
Whoa. That color would really irritate me. I am so amazed with your work though. It's really amazing.
Shyla
Sat 12-02-2006
Owwwch! I'm feeling like this creepy tight salmony hall is squishing my head! Need to move along now...
GirlJaye
Thu 12-21-2006
The perspective here is awesome. The height of the ceiling vs the narrowness of the hall. Makes you dizzy. Looks like where they'd stash the staff, really. We always get the arse end of the building and offices the size of the john.
ozpsychnurse
Mon 01-08-2007
The walls are closing in on me.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.
Joseph
Sun 03-11-2007
I can just imagine beeing in there, walking down the halls every day...crepy =] yet...awsome hahaha
Jen
Mon 04-02-2007
cool.
e
Mon 05-21-2007
Omg >.< My friend is claustrophobic and he would just die if he came near here @_@
Ayaka
Wed 08-22-2007
Lynne forgets that while it sucks to work there, it sucks to live there worse, because you never get to leave. Theyve got this thing with red carpeting and paint. some guy told me it was so blood wouldnt stain but i think he was just being a dick
Iggy
Tue 10-09-2007
Yikes! I'd probably have a panic attack walking down that hallway! Too narrow for me!!!
Qtirishprncess
Mon 10-29-2007
Claustrophobia indeed! This picture gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Feeling the walls closing in on you." EEK!!!
Linda - CT
Wed 01-23-2008
The walls are definitely closing in........and you captured that feeling so well!
Amazed
Fri 02-22-2008
hehe, my new appartement's hallway is this narrow....
the only difference is, this one's really OLD,
and my house still isn't finished yet! so it NEW!
GREAT picture by the way!
Rawan
Sun 04-27-2008
Great Pic! This Facility Seems More like a Experimental Toture Chamber per say than a Mental Health Treatment Facility. With its Aggitating Colors and Cramped Rooms I cant imagine what the basement rooms where for.
Legions
Sat 07-05-2008
Good Gravy did some little girl paint the room then have a temper tantrum??
Tainted Fairy Dust
Thu 08-07-2008
Wow....thats way too small. Especially if you look up at the ceiling *Shudders*
Zara
Thu 10-23-2008
I know not about agitating, but it certainly is nauseating! at least to me...
MedicSpanker
Fri 12-26-2008
am I the only one who thinks this hallway isnt scary or claustrophobic. I have lived in old house all my live... many of which contained small ahllways and tiny little out of the way spaces. I always found those places quietly comforting... away from the hectic "public" areas. I could easily spend time just chillin here. If it was a little cleaner that is. I am not mentally ill, ( whatever my mother might tell you) but I can imagine some patients might be comforted by the closeness here. Sure, a claustrophobic wouldnt like it.... but an agorophobic might.
thessaly
Tue 02-10-2009
I don't like the way that paint job turned out...or the icky way I can imagine fluorescent light glaring off it.
STL girl
Sat 02-13-2010
Eek, would have to diet just to get down the hall...lol
Misty Issel
Thu 05-06-2010
The first 1/4 second I saw this picture I gagged. *shivers* That is a narrow hallway....
Martian
Tue 06-01-2010
id like to see a fat person run down that hall way
urbex
Wed 01-05-2011
Thats a spooky hallway!!
ati64
Tue 02-07-2012

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