Scratches

Boredom.

Oh damn... looks like they had a calender and were scratching away the days as they went.

not boredom... waiting.

not waiting........dispair

Lockers for very tall people.

damn tall people

Watusis . . .

Look close tic tac doe

Could this be one of the rooms which was used in the movie In Dreams??

Autism (formerly childhood onset schizophrenia) can entail obsessional behavior - sometimes relating to calendars and dates. This is heartbreaking to me as I know 2 children who obsess this way.

I think I might want a print of this for when I'm wondering if I'm actually helping anyone - but it hurts too....

Shannon Anderson

Shannon, are you a therapist?

Anyone notice that the repeated pattern is similar to the entrance door to the ward?

Can't be a calendar... a 6 day week?

Someone didn't like sundays...

My first impression was someone was trying to draw the grate they where looking at right above them, like they where trying to fool people into thinking one grate was extended. But lacked the tools and tallent to do so? I know I would make mirroals of slightly open doors if I had the time and was locked up in such a place.

They could have been scratched after it closed or that the person was just well crazy.

this is sad to see these markings on the walls, I wonder what kind of care these patients received. I am a nurse and when I reas some of these stories, of neglect adn complete abuse it breaks my heart.

Surely in a dayroom patients would have stopped by staff should they have scratched the walls?

maybe the staff were madder than the patients..

i hate to rain on your parade, but those were the scratches used in the movie 'In Dreams' which was filmed in Northampton. pretty cool

However, it IS true that we are always "madder" than the people with whom we work. :-)

lynne, you truley know.... to understand dont you have to emphasise....

I personally feel a good therapist should have enough empathy to be able to get at least a faint sensation of what their people are going through to be any good at what they do. That way they can answer the questions that the person may be unable to articulate. The majority of folks I currently work with are nonverbal. so you REALLY have to try to figure out what they are doing, thinking, and feeling so you can best assist them in increasing their independence.

A lot of other therapists (probably ones who are much better than I am, to be honest) believe that you need to build up a pretty stiff wall between yourself and the people you see. That is the case for many patient populations, but that's why I love working with folks with intellectual disabilities. I don't have to be all formal and business-like and fake - I can be myself and they can be themselves and we all slob around and get dirty together, but we have a good time. We are on each others' level and it's a lot more truthful. They don't like something you did, they hit you in the face. Lesson quickly learned - don't do it that way next time. They do something you think is fantastic, you give them plenty of attention and reinforcement and pretty soon you'll each be members of the others' "biggest fan" club.

Best job in the world, and they actually pay me money to do it! :-)

you are one of the good...

your job sattisfaction must be fantastic, i paint for a living and forsure my job satisfaction is pretty low, when i say paint i mean decorate not pictures...

seems freaky but fasonating to see such things

I've been there plenty of time to know that sometimes unappreciative punks come in and try to make it look like something it wasn't.

Yes mentally insane people were held and died there.

But does that mean people cant just walk in and carve things in the wall?

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its tag fr the sixtys.

They are soap dispenser lockers.

i find this very creepy n a hundred questions cross my mind

really liking the pics tho x