Hoses

I love those deep windows.

Why is this so creepy?! Why?

I must be losing my nerve.....but there's just something so Marilyn Manson about this shot.

:-)

LI Fish:

You're reacting to the light. To me it's not so much creepy but a tad somber, stark and lonely.

I love the one open door in the background. You find yourself waiting for someone or something to step through it.

That hose looks like it could start unravelling itself any second.

The blue on the walls adds a sort of calm ambiance.

the hose look like a pile of intertwined snakes.... lynne... care to diagnose? lol

makes you wonder if people were beaten with those

Undoubtedly. "Clean the walls, beat the patients, water the grass" - what a great multi-purpose tool for all psychiatric facilities.

^ LOL.

I think I'm starting to become a fan of yours, Lynne : )

Don't worry - you'll get over it quickly. ;-)

No you won't J. R.,
She's my biggest fan, for YEARS now!

It's true - I've been ~Me's biggest fan for a L-O-N-G time now. :-)

get over gettin over Lynne, her wisdom and insights to the mental health field are invaluable to a sight like this, her oh so subtle ways of conveying to people that theyre being freakin idiots, well thats just funny as hell

This puts me in mind of an old B&W movie I saw. I think it was called THE SNAKE PIT. It was about a sane woman who was put in an asylum. It's really, really old. It was made for the sole purpose of exposing the deploriable conditions of asylums back in the late 1800's-early 1900's. I haven't thought of that movie in a long time. See what your Phots bring out Mr. Motts. I'm gona see if I can find it. I Love B&W movies and Phots. It just puts me in that "old" mood. Wish you'd do more shots in B&W. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!

In the book and the movie and real life she actually did have a very severe psychiatric disturbance. But it's a marvelous movie, yes.

Thank you, Lynne. It's been so long since I've seen the movie, just couldn't remember. But the movie made an impression on me. Can you give me any more info on it???????

Oh geez, it's been a while. Lemme see - it was Olivia deHavilland, wasn't it? And Leo Genn (I loved him in Quo Vadis) was the psychiatrist. I believe it was late 40s or early 50s, before antipsychotic medications were discovered. All they had back then were restraints, hydrotherapy, neurosurgery, and the various shock therapies (electric, insulin, Metrazol, etc.). Since there were few successful treatments, all hospitals were filled past capacity, and the states were never given enough money to adequately house or care for the many, many, many people that were sent there. This was a movie sort of proclaiming the wonders of psychotherapy, which doesn't work quite that well most of the time for people with severe and profound psychiatric disabilities. I liked the way the movie and the book painted an accurate picture of life in a psychiatric hospital at that time. What I never understood was how a movie and book could become as popular as occurred without the American people getting all riled up at the time and demanding that something be done to better the living conditions. I suppose that's why I get unhinged when people get all excited about the conditions that used to exist without trying to figure out how they got that way and why there still needs to be a lot more public knowledge and education about it.

Sorry - long answer to a short question. :-)

Amen Lynne!! you go girl!!!

Here's a lighter note, if you put a plate under it, then it could pass as pasta!

Yeah C-Note,
Then you can roll up some mold and ta da meatballs! Just sprinkle on some wallpaper and dig in!

I worked in that room on night jobs in the 60s

Long Island Irish:

It does seem like something out of the Antichrist Superstar era, with the peeling paint and the filthy floor.