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this makes me regret ever watching Sesame Street.
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Ernie looks like a girl.... >D
And I thought bigbird was weird....
http://www.myspace.com/gaeblergirl
I'm 18 and I'm going to have nightmares tonight...
*shiver*
I think the arrows must be a possible demo code. I've been in a few sites and seen similar stuff like arrorws, numbers, etc. And I finally just asked....they did say that those are demo codes.
Wow that was comepletly random. I remember Ernie singing that.
SPLASH!
Sounds of struggle then silence.
"Mr. Ducky you didn't see anything."
Great shot as always.
that is just too scary and mind fucking. something about thse murals makes my skin turn inside out.
When was you there?
What is 3 east??
Wards A, B, D and E was the only names that was used.
It was painted on the doors and I think on the wall as well.
Even when they needed help, they wouls shout "All available help on D as in David, all available help on D as in David". And then you had an army of eager bodies rushing at you to restrain you and strip you naked and place you in seclusion.
If they changed the names, that makes us old timers. LOL
Bert: Ernie, stop singing!!!!
belonging,ect. My name is Dennis Bunting and I would love to talk to some of my old friends, or people who want to know more about gaebler. My cell # is 617-733-85977. The voice mail is my company precision heat removal. Leave me a message especially if your one of my old friends.
I think it was john woodier he was on ward A in the last room on the left after the bend, "next to the exhaust fan in the window, across from the back door that lead down to the fenced in area and the classrooms near the wood shop." The first room on the left "after the seclusion rooms and across from the rec room" was audrie and Shawna's room. There was a colored picture in the doorway that said " shawna+john". That's the john I'm talking about. He was a big muscular kid that people were afraid of. When he told me I could go out with shawna I told him I didn't want to because I thought he was trying to find out if I liked his girlfriend, but then I saw the picture off the doorway later. That's the john. If its not woodier what is it.
I would not be sure what John it was as I was not even on A, I was on D, but I did know there was a tall kid with dark hair named John Lucciano. He was friends with this kid Pedro.
That might be him I don't remember but shauna would know
here's a site you might want to check out about info on finding your roommates and friends...the owner of the site was In Traverse City State Hospital...he is also searching for former friends.
Group name: GCC2010
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GCC2010
Group email: GCC2010@yahoogroups.com
I tried to use the sight but it said I was not authorized
1 - first, what the hell were the point of these paintings? Comfort? Security, a sense of family?
2- If you are to make institutional murals, why would the characters be bathing? Weird
3- Why do they look so twisted?
You can get your records, I was there from 82-84 and I got my records, the problems is that they black out al l the staff's names who said what about you to whom and things like that, but, for the most part you can figure out for yourself. All you have to do is write to DSS and get them, you need to send a coy of your license or picture ID, a copy of your birth certificate to prove it's you and tell them the years your were at Gaebler and they by law have to send you a copy of your complete and total history there, I did it when I turned 21 or 22years old and I got them all, then aIso got all my records from DSS and everything with them and then I went to St.Germaine Lawrence School in Arlington,mass for a couple of years and I got all those recoeds too. If you have any problems, let me know, I will helpo you....
jJust to add one more thing, you need tto get the letter notorized as well when sending the requet for your records....I hope I was able to help you out in this matter....
Is there a specific DSS you would write to or just the general boston headquarters address?
I believe these pictures are located in the basement next to the Ocupational Therapy Room. I do not remember them anywhere else, but it has been 27 years.
Hello, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. NO you canbasically contact any DSS office, but, it would be best if you contact the one that you were dealing with at the time of your stay there, also just to let you know, if u attened public scools at all after you left there then they will have a copy of your records from Gaebler as well. SInce the place has been closed, you will probably have a hard time getting them, but, it's the law and they have to give them to you, and if they say that you were never a patient there then that means they burned all the records or something, cause I tried getting them directly from Gaebler and they said they had no such patient by my name and Gaeble was till open when I tried to get them. soi I went through DSS, all I got those was papers stating I was there,nothing from Gaebler itself, I think they broke the law as we know they did a million times, but, I think they destroyed everyone's records which is against the law, I am trying to see another way of getting them. I actually just went to Gaebler today, cause I do live in Waltham and I went inside and OMG!! it's so scary, I toook pictures, I will try and put them on here if I can figure out how to do it....
I was there back in the 1980's on ward E then again on ward A. They have records for gaebler (not dss records) at the main number to massachusetts mental health. Its in boston downtown you have to put in a written request and state why you want the records (put for new shrinks records) then they will send you a letter letting you know if your approved to get them and how much they are going to charge you. Sorry I don't have the exact address or phone #. I got mine about 5 yrs ago + I haven't been in mass since 1999. But I think they should have a website too. Mdmh(massachusetts dept. Mental health is who has the records.
You were there when I was. What ward were you on? Do you remember me from ward a?
After all you been through there and being set free what is it that makes everyone go back in there after it being closed just a hang out or what? well for the people that have been there locked up when it was open and then closed has anyone grabed paper work old files my name is jody mcmillan.
I've been there a lot. The first few times there the basement was flooded and I couldn't get to the record room. Then when I could get to the record room the records were gone. As for going there after it closed, a lot of us have mixed feelings about it. I liked going there just to remember my past. I had a lot of friends there and I was there for 5 tears total. I also like to see that its closed and know that know one else has to go through what we did.
Hello there, I was a patient there from 82-84 and I was on Ward D, the staff members at the time were, Jack,Melody,Joanna, Harvey, Willie,Suzanne, Elaine and I can't remember the other ones, but, I so remember Tom Heathwood, he thought he was the cats ass, cause he was the head of the place and he really made us kids out to be monster, he would give the staff, and dr's orders on what to give us for meds and how to treat us, he was a scumbag, and I so wish I could find him and treat him the way we were treated. We were not monsters, we were children, and the reason some of us had problems was because our parents were screwed up, but, it's so much easier for our parents to just blame us then themselves and give us away cause it was to hard for them to deal with us. I am so sorry that you have had such a horrible life, I can't imagine starting at the age of 17yrs old and needing a pacemaker, that is horrible and now you have to have your 8th one put in, that is terrible, but, I am glad that you are still alive. I am so so so sorry that you had to raise yourself, that is terrible, what the hell is wrong with your parents? sorry to say that, but, you were just a child. My mother is actually the one who called the dept of mental health on me, and signed me away to the state from the age of 11yrs old-16yrs old when she got custody of me back and I came home to live , I was only home for just about 3yrs before I moved out a month after I turned 18yrs old and I never moved back home and now I am 41yrs old, have a wonderful husband and 2 children, 2 daugghters, one ijust turned 17yrs old & the other one is 6yrs old, I have had a tough life but, I promised myself that I would be the best person I could be and not let people cut me down and tell me the kind of person they think I am. For the longest time I hated my mother for putting me in Gaebler, but, I am older now and life is to short for hate, I am now extremely close with my mother and we see each other all the time, she actually lives a couple streets over from me. It took a long time for me to forgive my mother, I got my records and confronted her with them and she had no choice but, to tell me thet truth. As, for the building being gone, it's a shame, they should have put it to good use, like a childrens center, like a day center for troubled kids and have us patients be the staff because we would have known exactly how to handle them and treat them, medicince makes things worse, I do not believe that it helps at all. I wish you the best with your pacemaker going in for the 8th time, and hope that you are doing well and that your life is so much better. Allwe can do is prove to society that we are not as bad as we were made out to be, we are human, and humans make mistakes, some worse than others, but, that doesn't mean that us kids needed to be locked up, drugged, secluded, tied to a bed naked, ;locked int he shower alone, locked int he bathroom, and locked in the building, we shouldn't have had to earn priveledges to go outside, even then, you were still in a locked fench area, unless you were lucky to go get outside priveledges to go on the nature trail walks to Rocky Meadow, which by the way is still there, my husband and I go there every week,, and we go to the chrildren's cemetery. I have tons of pictures of Gaebler, inside and out and vieos, if you want to see them request me on facebook Michelle Woods-Godfroy. I hope you have a good day...
There was a movie that placed a girl in the hospital when i saw the hospital and they said lancaster brought back the flash back as it was yesterday however there is another movie where there was a girl place in but that hospital is in Stockbridge, Massachusetts called Austen Riggs Center the place is all white like the one in lancaster the name of the movie is called Intensity whice at the end of movie the girl was placed in austen riggs. I can't stand not knowing the name of the one in lancaster.
http://www.perkinsprograms.org/
There was also a state industrial school in Lancaster, but I believe it was for women only.
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ma43.htm
Welcome were you ever at gaebler?