Retribution

Fantabulous!

please someone give her a tylenol

Haldol, maybe?

A way out of here??

Or at least stop the screaming inside her head!

Hm, I like the angle. Very Nice.

I am indeed an angle person and might I say the angle in this one and the emotion overwhelms me. This is my favorite by far.

Once again, absolutely beautiful. Going through your photographs are playing like a movie. I love it. You would be an amazing cinematographer. The film industry would be lucky to have you.

Little girl lost...

she seems so small

I just want to say that I've seen every picture there is to see in this entire sight and have spent literally hours reading the comments following each one. I've kept my comments, questions, and critiques inside for so long and when I saw this series I was overcome with so much emotion.

I actually am writing a book about a girl in a mental hospital and had already starting writing it before I discovered this site. So, to get in the "mood" before I write, I look through this site, especially Cupid's Demise. I know what it's like to feel like her. All the eerie images of the psych wards that you guys commented on being "scary" I have seen and often have nightmares. Writing this book is my only way to let it all out and share it. I need to.

I just want to tell you Motts that I've looked through many, many abandoned asylum galleries besides yours and personally I like yours best. I wish I would've put more input to this site when I spent my time going through the site slowly on a 56k modem (talk about dedication) but I was always to lazy and worried about rambling on to much and boring everyone else (like I'm probably doing now), but you have put so many wonderful photos in here that I just had to say something. So in replace of the comments I probably would've put on every page, I've breifly compiled it into this long ass corny rambling. Thank you. ^_^

oh ya, this is my favorite one. lol

How long wre they ususally kept in seclusion like this? Did they REALLY think that would make them a better person?

Nancy -

Not only did they use Seclusion rooms in the "old days," they still do. I have a killer headache I'm trying to fight off right now or else I'd go into all the details; however, SRs aren't geared to making a "better person." They're used to contain a person until they can be reasoned with - without harming themselves or others. The ones where I work are under twenty-four hour video / audio survelliance.

Before you think it's "inhumane," ask yourself how would you rather deal with a detoxiing sociopathic psychotic who would rather self-medicate than take the meds RXd to him by the doctor? Don't you think he might take having a conversation with staff a little better if he's had a night to sober up in a safe enviroment?

I was hospitalized for depression. During the time I was there they brought in someone that was obviously very disturbed. He busted out a window and stabbed the guard in the eye with a shard of glass. He also used a large shard to cut the throat of the guard. I am more than glad there was a seclusion room to put that guy in. I was never so afraid in my life! The guard required many hours of surgery but he pulled through.

AMM -

Situations like that, although not necessarily to that extreme, happen all the time in a psych facility. I'm more than grateful that we have seculsion rooms for some of the patients that might need a "time out" until the meds kick in.

This poor soul looks like i feel overworked and under paid.

I am certainly grateful that there was a seclusion room for that guy. I was more or less on a ward for people with depression and bi-polar. They moved that guy to a ward for people with more difficult situations. Seclusion is definately not a bad thing. If it were not for the seclusion room a lot more people might have been hurt. The good part was they brought everyone ice cream when things settled down.

YAY for ice cream!!! :-D

LOVE it.