Solarium Bed

Goodness! I love this shot, Motts! It's absolutely beautiful! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

Have mercy. Nature continues, and this will look like a grotto.

Well, I guess that's where I'd put my bed...

Very neat shot will all the moss.

prolly this was a room for people with sad mood disorder, so they would get much daylight to shine into their heart. (?)

I'm guessing Chipy means Seasonal Affective Disorder. Briefly, it means that during late fall/winter people who suffer it (myself included) get depressed because we don't get enough light, and the pineal gland overproduces melatonin. There are two treatments currently, antidepressants (which have wicked side effects) and light box treatments (which are expensive). Of course, getting as much natural light as possible also helps out.

Is this our first "lonely bed" shot? :) (It does look like it's wistfully staring out the window wishint it was outside...)

Motts, was that the only door into this room ? There is a lot of greenery in the window.

Intense... solitary... the lonely artist... hey, this bed is kinda cool.

I love that motts, Moss. Uh, moss, Motts! Nice carpeting!

Sketch, I think I have that disease...
Winter depresses me, to some extent.
I don't think I'd hospitalize myself...
well at least not for that alone
=)

Oh my, I love this room!

No need to. For the most part you learn to live around it, and find a way to keep going on. It is worse in some people than in others, but there isn't really a need to be hospitalized unless you are suicidal from it. Try to get as much light as possible, go outside when you can, and if there is a facility that offers light box treatments, check out what they offer. You can purchase home light boxes, but they are usually thousands of dollars, and (in my town anyway) there is a doctor who offers light box treatment for $25/hour (and you usually only do 1 hour). If you want more info. on S.A.D. (catchy, no?), write me: purplefire@hotmail.com

Dr Sketch,
Down here they're called tanning beds, but they're not anywhere near that expensive, LOL

Hehehehe, yeah, same idea, much stronger. A good lightbox will let you get 10,000 lux at roughly 3 feet away (this is about the same amount of light as you would get on a bright spring morning). Of course, most have filtered out the harmful UV rays, which are the ones that give you a tan, so you can spend all day in front of it and still be pale and pasty.

I'll take a day at the beach over that any day

this is the most beautiful fucking photograph i've seen. honestly. theres something so touching about it. perhaps the colors of decay mixed with the colors of a beautiful bright day through the windows. the bed frame looks so untouched, almost as if it doesn't belong. a stark reminder of one solarium dweller.

strange to see images that represent so many feelings carried through so many years... sorry to be the crazy poet head, i identify with each twist of the rusted metal spring... spring carries on outside, yet sadly locked away.

Lovely shot, I love the rounded walls.

very big room I love the angle it was shot from,but is a solairium bed

I lay in the light to chase away the darkness from within.

Sad, but awesome photo.

The size of the room and the positioning of the overhead lights lends to the idea that maybe there were rows of beds in here for multiple patients?

i just thik its weird how the bed looks in such good shape for how old it is and the clean spot underneith the bed..

the bed in the relative clutter-free section under the light gives a strange feeling of hope to this picture. simply lovely.

Not sure what building this was taken in if i knew i could tell you what it was . Probally a dayhall for an old Chronic ward or maybe TB unit .

For some reason I can't stop imagining an oil painting of this photo.

This one is awesome.
I just can't peel my eyes from that bed...

That would be a great wallpaper!

This one is awesome.
I just can't peel my eyes from that bed

The coolest photo yet!

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Fascinating and beautiful.

The lighting in your photos is so hauntingly beautiful! Is that moss growing on the floor in this pic? Great shots! I'm seeing more of the Norwich Hospital through your photos than I EVER saw of it when I grew up just up the street from it!

i know this place =) i live in ct

it looks cool with the green mossy stuff on the floor.

I think the old architects were really on to something when they specified so many large windows to let in sunlight. Not just for seasonal affective disorder (which wasn't recognized at the time) but for the general curative aspects of light. I remember one winter when I had a horrible case of bronchitis, but because I thought I might be pregnant (it turned out I was), I didn't want to take medications. It lingered for a couple of weeks. Then there was one of those too-rare days of perfect blue sky in the winter. I spent the day on the sofa with the sunlight pouring onto me from the window, and by evening my symptoms were gone. I know it's probably just a coincidence, but it did happen. And now the news is filled with stories of how we've become so aware of the dangers of UV rays that most of us are Vitamin D-deficient, and the doctors are recommending more time in the sun for children, just like Dr. Spock (the baby doc, not Spock from Star Trek) did all those years ago. I feel sad when I see new schools with those tiny energy-efficient windows that make them look more like prisons.

the security there is so fake. Did u no that u can go in there because theres underground tunnels so u guys should look that up trust me been there done that like twice and i still havent got cought

hey motts is that room for only on epatient and if it is can i move in lol

So sad, lonely, and faraway...

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