Isolation

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This facility seems to have some of the tiniest rooms as compared with other isolation rooms as seen in your shots of other buildings.

Roxie Z

Fri 05-13-2005

Another strange color to use in a Mental facility.. it is said that Yellow is the color of insanity (and is rarely if ever used in hospitals)

silkster40z

Sat 05-28-2005

I'm sure at places like this, they didn't cure patients, and even maybe made them more insane for the insurance money.

Cyrus

Mon 06-13-2005

A few days in THAT room with THAT color would definitely make ME crazy!

Aly

Thu 06-16-2005

i envy you.. you get to take pictures of these amazing places

Erin

Wed 06-22-2005

I knew there was always a reason that I never liked the color yellow.That is a hideous shade of yellow at that.

MY EYES! MY EYES~!!!

atmosphere=confusing

again electricity. I work juvnenile detention. No light switches. They would tear them apart and shock themselves.

Blinding!

Again... another maddening colour. The room is small enough to make anyone crazy, and floresent lightings not a bonus at that (floresent lights drive me nuts). The whole room screams of danger and hazard.

Jessica

Wed 11-09-2005

The colors should have been reversed. The blue on the bottom and the yellow on top. This might have made the room more relaxing.

Puddleboy

Sat 11-12-2005

This building's colors are not helpful at all. It seems as if they are trying to make the patients there worse.

Luna

Wed 11-30-2005

This might have been covered & I missed it, but why doesn't the color go all the way to the ceiling in most of these rooms? There is a clear line in almost every one of these that the color doesn't go past. Any idea why?

Sketch

Tue 01-10-2006

It might be just to save time and money... these ceilings are very tall, and the rooms are usually painted over and over again, so instead of lugging the 12' ladder into each room and paying for all the extra paint they just square it off.

Motts

Tue 01-10-2006

My first appartment was painted like this. There was a piece of molding at about 7 feet up and everything above it was painted white. I think it's from the time when we were more dependent on natural light. The white upper part made the room brighter and the colored lower part reduced the glare.

Bill

Tue 01-10-2006

Look at this picture while listening to the end of The Moody Blues "Knights in White Satin" and it messes with your head!

Sal Sagev

Fri 02-10-2006

The odd door...not as ornate here, either.

Can someone turn off the color?? LOL!

AutumnTwin

Fri 04-07-2006

haha turn off the color funny........

Average Jojo

Sun 05-14-2006

Is yellow really associated with craziness? Because it's my favorite color and a yellow room would cheer me up. I would think it would cheer anyone up: sunshine, sunflowers, dandelions, etc. Of course, if I spent a lot of time in a yellow seclusion room, I'd probably grow to hate yellow.

isabeats

Sun 05-14-2006

i know it's my umpteenth comment of the day, but i'm really interested in what ang said about the light switches (like in the pink room). were these patient rooms?

surly girl

Mon 05-15-2006

These originally appeared to be patient rooms, but they could've been renovated for any type of use later on in the hospital's life. The asylum was built in the late 1800's so many things are later additions including lights.

Motts

Mon 05-15-2006

one thing....i hate yellow

its not even a pretty yellow

its like pukey yellow

its like yellow got drunk the night before and had a hangover all day and its really sick

its like yellow had been dead for months and no one has noticed it has not eaten its peas yet

its like its rotting in a trunk some where and growing mold with flys and other buggs on it

its a horrible yellow on top of that its yellow in genarul

i feel so extremly sorry for who ever was in that room

from under your bed

Tue 05-23-2006

yeah, and take my wife, please!

Janice

Tue 05-23-2006

With the advent of more powerful anti-psychotic drugs and other such things, not to mention changing attitudes, there was a definite move away from using isolation from about the late 60's onward. So, they probably phased out the rooms. Perhaps even made them into private bedrooms for well-behaved patients. Which could explain the light switches. I mean, if you have a bedroom you'll want control of your lighting.

Keith

Fri 05-26-2006

Just out of curiosity, how big was this room, if you know? It doesn't even look big enough to lay down in or even fit a bed! Strange.

saywardstudio

Sun 08-06-2006

About 8'x10', with about a 12' ceiling. They were designed to prevent more than one patient from residing in the same room when overcrowding became an issue.

Motts

Mon 08-07-2006

If I didn't have issues before going into this room, I sure would be crazy when I came out...... mainly just because of that aweful yellow.

Katee

Sun 01-07-2007

'they call me mellow yellow' :D

interstellar-moonbeam

Fri 01-12-2007

This room is even more terrible then that pinkish - red colored room !!!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Joseph

Sun 03-11-2007

They couldn't have been left in these rooms for very long, there are no toilets.

EFFE

Tue 06-26-2007

I dont know which is worse, this room or the pink one!!!!

Qtirishprncess

Mon 10-29-2007

What a nasty color.
That would drive me more insane and crazy than i already probably am xD.

P.S.
Hasnt anyone else noticed that at the bottom of the wall on the right side of the door there is a hole in the shape of a heart.
Thought I would point it out, no one else saw it [:

Inspiredphotographer

Tue 11-20-2007

I really like the color for some odd reason. Yellow's my favorite color. Maybe I am crazy? Maybe thats why I like it. But either way, being in such a tiny room for days on end would be insanity inducing either way.

Nacho

Thu 01-03-2008

I was curious about the light switch also, perhaps these rooms were used later on as offices or something such as that...the electrical wiring looks like an afterthought.

AvalonSeeker

Sun 01-20-2008

This reminds me of a short story called "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's a story about a woman in the 19th centery who is confined to a room because she has temporary nervous depression. The room she's in has ugly yellow wall paper that she becomes obsessed with and begins seeing a woman in the paper. I think if I was in a room with that color I wouldn't want to look at anything yellow ever again.

Steph

Mon 06-23-2008

Interesting. On a side note the walls of my new condo are painted canary yellow. Wonder if that says something about me?
Oh well, once again an amazing photo by our favorite explorer.

J.R.

Mon 09-01-2008

better then the pink i think!!

Trish

Wed 09-10-2008

Maybe, instead of the evil staff picking the color that would make a patient even sicker, the person who used this room happened to really like the color and was allowed to choose it for the room's walls.

"Places like this" certainly did not make people "even more insane for the insurance money" because there was no insurance money to be had. A patient with insurance would go to a private hospital, not a state facility.

dme

Thu 11-06-2008

the first thing i noticed in this picture was the heart in the bottom right corner..

BeccaLila

Tue 07-07-2009

do they realize that yellow is a color that typically irritates people?!?!?!

Amanda

Fri 12-04-2009

What kind of therapy would include that horrible colors they chose for the seclusion rooms. Was it prison or a hospital, but cruel and unusual is definately there.....

Misty Issel

Thu 05-06-2010

I find yellow very calming... My driving instructor always tells me that I drive a bit like a maniac, so I tend to wear something yellow when I go for my lessons.

Yes, I am strange, but it helps me!

Tiny

Sun 08-01-2010

I didn't even notice the color. My eye was drawn to the heart in the right corner.

Meri

Tue 12-21-2010

thumb twiddling time
madness
madness
fuck its gone shit what happened to that person that was with me
prick you were supposed to keep me company

urbex

Wed 01-05-2011

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