Seclusion Rooms

I love that it's an angled door shot much like the one in the Hellingly gallery, but it has a very different feeling to it (again, sterile). I wonder how that one door got to be dirty and the others are clean?

haha awesome! makes my shot look like it was taken with a disposable! :P

Wow i love the angle on this. another great shot motts. I am so glad you went to England and got some shots there. its such a shame they are tearing places like this down. Its like taking away history.

makes you wonder who is behind those doors waiting for you

Look how small those peep holes are on the doors. Imagine being a patient locked in trying to look out and see some life/movement. Pretty depressing if you ask me.

i recall these seclusion rooms VERY WELL .
I spent several years here when i was 17/18 .
let me tell you it was WORSE than it looks!

Strange how one door is very dirty while the others look clean.

sorry if the doors arent as spotless as you would like sir.
madge and jean buckly, 2 twin sisters from colchester were responsible for this part of the hospital.
I will speak to them about it over the weekend.
However as they are now in their early 80s DONT bank on it getting re cleaned.

Thi8s picture reminds me of a sinking ship (which scares the shit out of me by the way)
Looking at it makes me dizzy!! lol

And why were patients secluded? Misbehavier? If you have mental problems to begin with, don't you think that would make it worse?

Seclusion is the next to last stage of intervention. By law hospitals are supposed to use the LEAST restrictive method, possible to quiet the situation. Preferably an event can be settled by the patient verbally contracting for safety .. The process escalates from there depending on behavior.

The seclusions always creep me out... if only walls could talk, what kind of stories would these ones tell?

WOW! Plenty of rooms to choose from. I wonder which I would pick!

wow just a small slot to let daylight in, were there any windows in the rooms? Looks like the staff really wanted to segregate themselves from the patients in those rooms!

Working in Mental Health you often come across agression and Violence. The patients provide a potential risk to staff or other patients, if they do not respond to verbal communication then they have to be removed from the situation for their safety and the safety of others. You cant just think "aw, they have a mental health problem, let them do what they want because they cant help it." That would be a form of negligence, it wouldn be fair if other patients were injured or worse. These rooms seclude the patient until they are sufficiently calm and will not harm other people. It is for safety only, we are not being cruel or not understanding. If we belive its in their best interests then we do that, but we perform it in a proper and safe manner.

I am an ex patient and was here in one of these cells . It was a lock down facility for people going through extreme conditions like Psychosis which I had during an episode of schizophrenia when I was a youngster .Using cells like this is an infingement of human rights and an excuse for poor lazy nursing techniques. These places are very scary and the treatment is even worse , I lost two whole days of my life because they put people who are" difficult " unconsious through drug treatment and I still dont know what other " treatment" I recieved when I was asleep. I was on a lock up ward next door for a month . This bloody place still haunts me to this day and I will never forget the faces of some of the other frightened souls they imprisoned in these things.

After seeing the state of the place on these pages and on the BBC recently I think that the place should be demolished and turned into a lovely park . The gardens were the best bit of the hospital. Developers should not be allowed to make money from a place of human misery.

My uncle was put in this place by my grandad because he cheeked him! He spent the best part of 50 odd years in this hellhole. when it closed, he was in his twilight years and moved to a home, where he died a few months later. l will never forger visiting him with my father when l was a kid, and each time we went, he seemed to be more and more drugged. We believe he had awful electric shock treatments as well as other things that went on in there. Anyone who says they have fond memories should think again, maybe for the staff, but certainly not for the patients! Many of the patients there had treatable illnesses which are deemed NORMAL in todays society.

This place looks like prison not a place to help people. If people were treated like family by the people who worked here they wouldn't have to worry about locking people in rooms. The patients were being mistreated that is why people lash out at others. Putting them into a room doesn't solve the problem it only covers it up for the time being. Given drugs all the time what about talking to them, and helping them become functioning people in society. The patients who went here stayed here for years when they did nothing to deserve this. If this is how you people feel about people who may appear to have mental problems than I can't imagine how people are treated who are handicapped. I can only hope this is turned into something good, and nobody ever lives on this property again.

Scary,,,,,,