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very sad and scary

Is this to another seclusion room or something entirely different?

You also have to rember that the room may have looked diffrently when the hospital was open. they were proubly just as gloomy but I'm sure they were slightly more..well..livable when people lived in them.

By the history of this hospital i sincerly doubt that it looked much different when it was open... :s

Agreed, bland and empty but far from uninteresting. Just imagine some kid in here living the effects of being confined in this very room, it being his only area of privacy in the place he considered home - you can almost feel the unhappiness and instability in photographs such as these, executed so precisely and effectively by Motts

Em . . . . . . Well . . . . .

Ah, fergit it. :-)

this is just soooo horrible, to think people had to be incarcerated here....

Em, that is to say . . . . . .

=8-o

Doc, glad to see you're not inflicting more pain on your head.

Those tiles look like the cafeteria in my old elementary school, just the same kind of tiles.

Looks to me like the inside of just about every school I've seen. Not necessarily cold, more like utilitarian. Those tiles actually work great for brightening up a room, you just can't tell it in a B&W photo...

"peeling paint on walls
vacant thoughts of suicide
locked in a small room"
((I have to write 60 of these by the end of the day. Whoppie.))

THESE ROOMS LOOK SO SAD, I KIND OF WONDER HOW THEY WANTED TO KEEP PATIENTS SANE IN AN ENVIRONMENT LIKE THIS?

Yes these rooms look sad but these were children that if they had a chance mite get out and hurt them selfs or some one else. Some if not all probably could not take care of themselfs so even if all they did was get out and run away it could have had horendous results. They did not have plexi glass then so nice barless windows would not have realy been an option. They did not have the space to make extra housing to make the rooms nice big and roomy. Sure there were some realy bad things that use to happen but mostly it was because people did not know better and they thought the treatments helped.

the thing that upsets me about this one is that every child needs love... being held stories read to them ... i dont get a sence these kids had ANYTHING like that i feel as if they wher a burden to the staff.. as if something to be tollerated for their pay ... i dont feel an ounce of love or good intention comeing from this place what so ever ... being empathic i just feel so very sad with this one... parts of me wish i could turn back time and work there so i could have offerd some sort of peace to these poor poor kids!!! god rest their souls.... any comments email to justicedreams24@aol.com

Your imagination worries me. Aren't you afraid to go outside unescorted with all the bogeymen you've created? You are looking for abuse and you seem to be excited about finding it. That scares me.

Really, you just be an EC teacher in NC and NOBODY BELIEVES YOU

Amy--You said..."Really, you just be an EC teacher in NC and NOBODY BELIEVES YOU"
What is an "EC Teacher in NC?" Just curious...

this place creeps me out more than the more decrepit ones cuz of the bathrooms with windows to look in to them and the "sisters" and "brothers" thing!

mmmm...
How beautiful if you capture this image in a certain way...

But it's also qute scary because the lighter front the picture portrays calmness while the focal point in the back portrays...
well, death I guess.
I couldn't be there:(

I think even if that room was colored like a rainbow, with poster and stuff it'd be still sad, it's not the place, but who was in there that makes it sad. Walls, rooms etc. are soaked with the sadness left there by the residents.

Ok, I must just be a really insensitive person, because I don't get any senses of anyone's tragedies or mistreatment from a photograph of an empty room - I can see a very beautiful photograph of a room which probably looks very different from when it was inhabited. It's going to look cruddy because it's abandoned - you can't really see what it was like when people were actually there unless you were there at the time.

I think there are a lot of people who like the dramatic, and create these little torture/mistreatment scenarios in their heads, which they have no evidence of from a photo of a room, and that's a disturbing thing in itself!

I . . . . . . I think I love you!

Lol, kisses :-p

I see a bed with sheets and a maybe some books ,a warm enviroment,people see what they want to see.

Cruel and unusual punishment.....

Um...

The workers in places such as this are paid extremely low wages and are usually the dregs of society who are themselves in and out of institutions their entire lives. They are, in my personal experience, shitty people. Some of them don't care in a good way ( allowing you in girls rooms, etc.), but most of them are pissed off because their life sucks, and take it out on patients through either excessive enforcement of rules (one flew over the cuckoo's nest) or blatant abuse (use of restraints and other methods of control as forms of punishment). then occasionally you get someone who hasnt been crushed by the weight of the world, their optimism is grating.

What, pray tell, personal experiences have you had? I mean are you one of those who have watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 100 times and call themselves an expert on the way patients are "always" treated in "all" mental health facilities?

People like you really destroy the work that others have given so much to achieve. People like you are the only shitty people I know.

Go whine someplace else. It's annoying.

You are going to find, no matter where you go, state school, mental hospital, out in the real world, that there are kind and caring people and then there are just mean A-holes that would be mean no matter what. It's just hat t s... Life. It isn't always fair or pretty or nice ut you deal...

this place seems very Disturbing

What was up in the corner on the shelf?

This looks exactly like my room in a Juvenile Detention Ctr. when I was a teenager. It was very depressing, and made staying there that much worse.

I love the flooring. The tile structure looks absolutly amazing.

looks exactly like jail cells