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Lonesome Room

Lonesome Room

A solitary mattress in a small room.
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For some reason I find this picture very sad.
Erin
Thu 12-29-2005
This looks like one of the rooms we used to put patients in when they we on 1 to 1's.. The patient was put in a sheet restraint or jacked and tied down. A staff memeber would have to sit in the room with them by the door and watch them. Patients in Sheet restraints or jackets were to be released at specific intervals to check circulation and vs and make sure they were ok. The patient was usually so drugged up, that by the time they were in the restraint for 15 mins they were usually asleep and didn't need it any more..... So so sad what these patients were put through!
It is sad
Mon 04-10-2006
can you even call that a mattres its so small
from under your bed
Sun 05-07-2006
The mattress was folded in half. That's why it looks so small.
Amanda B.
Sat 09-16-2006
I feel so restrained just looking at this picture. Like the walls are just gonna come closing in on me...
J.R.
Sun 10-01-2006
YEa the real sad part is how many of those rooms their are in that building they are very similar to jail cells...
ALEX
Fri 01-26-2007
Unlike dark windowless room called The Hole in prisons, I'd call this The White Hole.
Hallucinator
Fri 12-14-2007
@ ALEX

I feel the same way, too.

Any sane person being locked up in that room for hours would be driven nuts. And it is just horrifying to know that there are many many more of those rooms in the Hospital.
Tsukasa
Tue 01-01-2008
Don't be sad...after facilitys like this were closed on Long Island many former patients wondered the streets often worse off than when they were "inside". Bayshore suffered terribly when Pilgrim State closed and released former patients to the streets. Today the live in group homes funded by the state in suburban neighborhoods. I have one such group home on my block and believe me those folks are just as isolated from the community as when they were in the facility. I am not talking about the criminally insane of course.
John
Fri 05-06-2011
this is sad...My mom used to work here though!!!!!!!
Melissa
Sun 05-08-2011
Everyone is saying how sad for the patient to be tied down in restraints or medicated. I work in a state hospital in another city and when the pt's go off, they hurt themselves or staff and that to me is the cruelest thing. We are keeping the pt safe in restraints, you would have to see an episode of a pt going balistic to understand the need for restraint's or meds. I think to do away with the restraint's and other means, it cruel to the patient.
Debbie
Tue 11-01-2011

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