Separation

i really like this shot, it reminds me of a crypt

good thing...the arousal rate must have been crazy after all those "numbs you, dumbs you" down meds....

tsk tsk....how pitiful that knowing your seperated from humanity, but now from other patients when you are allowed to be aware of them.

I like how the doors are half open and leads you to a hall beyond the dorrs. Very efective. A very good picture.

I'm sure there was little 'peep holes' for the boys to look through. (LOL)

or the girls to look thru...teehee

Funny and sad at the same time-boys and girls looking at each other through the peepholes, trying to find each other's love and comfort in a place where there is nothing but coldness and evil.

Em . . . . . .

[Trying real hard to be good, Motts]

*scratches her head and looks and Lynne, shurgs, snorts and walks away to go cackle*

"coldness & evil"?

Didn't these places have heaters?

That would just be evil if they had

it looks evil && cold.. yeaaaaa yeeaaaaa yeeeaaaaa,,, woo hoo woo hoo woo hoo!!! <3

Thanks, ~Me, that's what I thought.

Well I am sure they let the boys and girls do some activities together. Play in the yard and such

Piling up the 300th Day and Night
From Beyond the door,
Cries of pain are heard
And the final destination has become real
Though not a blessed beginning.

Were these mostly children here? I just never realized, until I got on this site, the enormity of mental illness. Do you think children or older people were wrongly diagnosed back then? Like today we have so many afflications a child could have; hyperactivity, bi-polar, etc.; but we cwetainly don't put them in aninstitution for it.

One of my favorite shots that I've seen on the site so far. It reminds me of leaving a dreary place, into a calming light. There are very little markings/paint peelings visible on the other side of the doors. Maybe I'm just in an odd mood tonight, which is possible, or the soothing celtic violin I'm listening to, but, this just really struck me as beauty from darkness for some reason. Motts, you sell prints correct?

its so dark that the sexes were separated. they needed eachother to make sense of their predicament

ya have teh gutts motts

By: Lynne Em . . . . . .

[Trying real hard to be good, Motts]

By: Lyric *scratches her head and looks and Lynne, shurgs, snorts and walks away to go cackle*

I love this site and the people who love it also,

I sometimes have a hard time not posting replies to the crap some of the transients post, but it's the posts like the two above that keep me from flipping out on some of the ignorant morons who feel compelled to "put their two cents in".

Thank god there are people like Lynne who have what it takes to care for people with special needs and can still retain a sense of humor in the face of people who have no clue how truly challanging it really is.

I don't know, I think "cold and evil" are fairly good terms considering the information which had been given on this place:

"became notorious in the public eye for neglect and abuse toward the residents. Newspaper articles detail ex-employees tales of children without soap, clean clothes, sheets and even food; there were claims that some co-workers would beat the patients. They wrote how the foul smell of urine and feces was constantly lingering in the air, and many residents wore diapers and banged their heads against the walls for attention. A report was also published that a deaf woman, admitted in 1930, had been kept inside the hospital for 55 years, being misdiagnosed as "mentally retarded."

Em . . . . . .

[Still trying real hard to be good, Motts, after two+ years . . . . . . .]

hmmm... makes me wonder... Is this a place for children or is it a Criminal Forensic Ward for the criminal insane?

It's been a while since I've posted. Man, it's good to be back. :)

again i can just see couples sitting outside touching the door longing for human contact and love.

Lynne, you be TOO good, and you'll up and swallow your own tongue ;)

So stark and beautiful.

The Door of Frustration

Ah, the gate to the promised land.

Wow, beautiful shot. I want to check out what's on the other side of those doors (unlike the dark and scary ones you sometimes post, lol).