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A close up of the deep gouges.
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It's when you find fingernails in the plaster you need to worry :-/
rich_edwards79
Fri 11-04-2005
I'm truely speechless. I can't keep my eyes off them.
Ron
Fri 11-04-2005
The pain these scratches represent are sad.
Truckie
Sat 11-05-2005
I agree, Truckie. All of these wonderful pics are showing the pain and sadness of the people that were there.
Scully
Sat 11-05-2005
I have goosebumps looking at these. Seriously.
: (
Twug
Sat 11-05-2005
twug, i so agree, you can almost feel the pain.......
kty
Sat 11-05-2005
TWUG, GOOSEBUMPS ON THE LIST. CHECK.
Martymizuno
Sat 11-05-2005
Intense!
Paulina
Sat 11-05-2005
eww, its like the thing from the silence of the lambs, except its real. umm......what was this room used for again?
Alexxx
Sat 11-05-2005
So we've got goosebumps, willies; what the heck am I forgetting?
Twug
Sat 11-05-2005
Wasn't there "jitters" or something?
Ron
Sat 11-05-2005
"Heebie jeebies"? "Shakes"? "Jim jams"?
Lynne
Sat 11-05-2005
Forgot "screaming meemies." :-(
Lynne
Sat 11-05-2005
Thanks, Ron and Lynne, those are they!
Twug
Sat 11-05-2005
LET'S NOT FORGET THE YIPS! WOW! TWUG. YOU ARE. . . YOU'RE. . . I . . .I . . . DON'T KNOW...
Martymizuno
Sun 11-06-2005
This gives me te shivers.
rottenapples
Mon 11-07-2005
Gramma would say, "It's-a make-a me scayyy!!"
Tony C.
Mon 11-07-2005
Lets not forget this place has been shut down for some time. Not all the damage you see was done by pacients...
silver
Tue 11-08-2005
It "irks" me, or something.
Judderman
Sat 11-19-2005
Oh wait, that means "it irritates me", right?
Judderman
Sat 11-19-2005
One, two Freddie's comin' for you.......
Shytownmofo
Tue 11-22-2005
this picture is freaking me out. My friends mom worked there when she was younger... i think i know y she left now. Besides the fact that she was chased after by a crazy man.
gbountyh
Mon 12-19-2005
Truly freaky

gives me the jubblies
Powdered Toast Man
Mon 01-02-2006
To think what this person was going through....
RB Vannacutt
Fri 03-03-2006
how sad, this persons pain is nnow posted here for our amusement (for want of a better word....)
sianaby
Fri 05-12-2006
Or edification . . . .
Lynne
Fri 05-12-2006
now the only question left is did it sound any diffrent then when some one drags there nails across a chalk bored
from under your bed
Sat 05-13-2006
COULD BE TOENAILS.................
ONE WILL NEVER KNOW
EITHER WAY VERY SAD..............................
RACER
Sat 10-21-2006
It wasn't only patients who suffered at these institutions, my mother worked in one in upstate NY for 25yrs. I remember asking on many occasions where the bite marks, scratches, gouges, and bruises came from. And always the same answer...the patients.
D. King
Sun 10-29-2006
my god, image how far gone and how unhappy youd have to be to dig your fingernails into solid cement. *shutters*
lei
Tue 01-23-2007
that could be anything to hard to tell...
dan
Sat 03-03-2007
Personally, I LIKE IT!!! Just gives U all food for thought. And What thoughts U have! GREAT
Nevermore
Tue 06-05-2007
wow that looks scarry
!
jenna
Mon 07-09-2007
This is...so sad. I don't know. I look at these pictures, and an overwhelming sadness just falls on me. Almost like I want to cry.
Tonya
Fri 11-02-2007
wow....... that's really all i can say!!!

i don't have anything to say.......i'm to speechless!!!!!!


ouch!!!!!!
jessica molyneaux
Wed 11-07-2007
so much pain
jn
Sun 11-18-2007
the pain felt in that room is tangible
callie
Thu 12-27-2007
Disturbing. Is that even possible? Thick concrete for the walls, could you even put scratches in like that with your nails? Wouldn't the seclusion rooms have been padded to prevent people from smashing their brains out on the wall?
Bob
Thu 01-03-2008
Or is that plaster? In which case, I retract my previous statement as I am an ignorant goof.
Bob
Thu 01-03-2008
As someone who suffers from bipolar disorder( though only recently diagnosed) I can truly empathize with the pain and feelings of the long forgotten patient or patients who left these scratches.
I am truly thankful to be living in an age where those with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities are not hospitialized long term( except in extreme cases) but, through therapy and drugs, are able to live in the community and achieve.


Truly haunting m
CelticDream2008
Wed 05-28-2008
That picture makes me want to cry. Utter hopelessness.
Steve
Fri 10-24-2008
The pain here was so horrible, I just can't believe it
aigmeyer
Mon 12-22-2008
I just can't keep my eyes off them...It's just so sad : <
glass-skeleton
Thu 07-30-2009
Fascinating photograph. Really represents the suffering mental illness has to offer. Should it get to this point un-treated. Truely saddening.
Lucy
Sun 07-24-2011
wow..just makes me wonder what went thru the minds of some of the parients.......many were def mentally ill and im sure very confused from day to day// and im also sure that others were in their own world...maybe many felt that their life was normal....to have never felt love or compassion...
ati64
Mon 02-13-2012
so sad how those people suffered, my momwas a patient, there several times makes me cry seeing this,could have been her room
mike
Sat 03-24-2012

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