Seclusion Rooms

This is probably where they put the patients that acted out. And they probably stayed in there til the dang nurse or whoever so fit to let them out. Jerks.

OK, a new batch of folks . . . . . . . . .

Yet another excellent photo. Though they are really not supposed to lock people in seclusion just for the heck of it... it never hurts to be skeptical of the government run facilities.

More than "not supposed to." As well as leading to one's immediate termination from employment it can also be prosecuted as a criminal offense. If someone goes to a seclusion room or a time out room these days there is a concomitant host of paperwork, documentation, and observation that must occur. All you need is to find one instance of the abuse of seclusion or time out and the feds can eat your lunch - permanently. Honestly, and as odd as it sounds for an ex-hippie such as myself to be saying this, in most cases your rights are better protected in a state-run facility than in a private care facility.

Someone shoot me - I actually said that and it's true. What a world, what a world! =8-o

in the time that dixmont was operating it was common practice to put patients in seclusion room for a short time for the protection of themselves and others when they were having a episode of violence you must understand that in those days the medication they used had adversed effects and would in some cases make the behavior worse before it was better also those rooms were used for watching patients that were possibly going to comit sucide

Its very true. Since the majority of the MR clients I worked with were state-funded we also had to fill in all the paperwork. And trust me, there was a lot of paperwork "for the state".

wow suicide violence sounds like a video game

"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" - Hotel California, The Eagles

oddy why would any hosp have two doors that way? or did you guys find it like that?

Reddll, My thoughts also. The Eagles must have spent time here. Could this be the real HOTEL CALFORNIA ????

Dont you people realize that this hospital is haunted by the spirits of the people who were torchered here... for the past pictures you have been blabbing on about the nice architecture or view and i agree they are nice but what about the history behing the place and the poor tortured people who never got a decent life?

Must . . . find . . . helmet . . .

Lynne... you REALLY need to keep that thing closer.

CAS you's think she'd Keep it hooked to her fanny pack.

Big Ed, I lent it to you last week and forgot to get it back. Mebbe I need a spare . . . . or 2 or 3 . . . hundred . . . . . . .

Thought I gve it back.

*passes Lynne a helmet from personal supply*

There ya go = )

Now scurry along... Plenty more people to edu-ma-cate

NO HANDLES LET ME OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My ex was put into a seclusion room at the hospital she was at and was on suicide watch. Nice pic btw

Oh yes, the "poor tortured people who never got a decent life"! Life in the community with so-called "normal" people is not a cakewalk for someone with mental illness or developmental disabilities, either. When I've been eating in a restaurant with some of the people I work with, I've heard insensitive, RUDE comments along the lines of "Why do they bring *that* out in public? We shouldn't have to look at *that* while we're eating. Don't they know there are places for things like *that*?"