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Therapy Notes

Some files were still strewn about the place. The open pages of the notebook contained a psychological profile of a woman during her group therapy sessions in 1972. The photograph inside the book looks to be more recent.

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Is that picture for Refference? Like "if this person is running away from you in her underwear, this is what she will look like and you know she is escaping."

Or is it for patient entertainment?

I really want to read that notebook.

Mr.Motts... super curious to know do you ever take anything? i would have had to take that notebook!

Any kind of date in the notebook? Would be interesting reading.

In the photo, the place already looks like its going downhill..those walls are none too clean in the picture. Makes you wonder where that young lady is today.

Look closely at her feet......dont they look awfully red, irritated, inflamed?

I see a date of 5-5-72. That's sort of suspicious.. I have well kept books from the 70's that are in a lot worse/yellow condition than these open notebook pages. Perhaps the building was shut tight and I shouldn't be so skeptical.

What's up with her feet? They almost look bloody or really red for some reason.

JM

Uh.... what's up with the photo? Too many mysteries here...

Don't you guys read the captions under the photographs? ;)

A mystery for the ages.

Motts lives by the motto "Take only pictures, and leave only foot prints."
So no, I don't think he took any of the notes.
(Me, on the other hand..I would have :)

I think most urban explorers live by the 'Take nothing but photos, Leave nothing but footprints' I know I do.

The ironic /sad part of this is if he took it ( even to give this person the honor they needed) he probibly be charged with theft of confidential medical records (or some crap like it).

While the state/people who left it this way would be considered OK.

Shame since alot of records are kept this way, and even more outright distroyed (to protect the guilty/embarressed no doubt).

Without them hundreds of thousands of men, women, children have tragically beccome unkown and abandoned again.

Also without them ouw can we be reminded of the horrors that once passed as healing and prevent them from comming back again.

man, would I love to have read this -

eldokid@aol.com

No I didn't take it, I left it in the room; although I would bet someone else had grabbed it by now.

I can't help but be drawn to the word "voices?" in the notebook. Very intriguing.

The photo is just strange on a number of levels and indeed looks more recent than 1972.

Yes, the notes mentioned that the resident was hearing voices.

haunting; the poise is not natural. She looks forced.

Kind of interesting that they are referring to her as "resident" there (as opposed to patient, which is what I've seen generally used in 19th century records, not to mention what seem like a more natural term to use).

In an effort to "de-institutionalize" places, they were referred to as residents or consumers. Also, some people with mental illness often do something called "posturing" meaning they will "strike a pose"...sometimes for quite a long time. From what I gather, it can be attributed to their diagnosis such as having OCD and having to do something because that action is "attached" to something else happening. You know, like a butterfly causes a ripple on a pond in Asia and it ends up as a tidal wave in Hawaii. Also, sometime their voices tell them to do certain things.

Jesus that is strange but all the more interesting. I really do love this strange stuff Motts. Very Surreal photo of that woman... the mind is fear.

well the style of the underclothing would suggest its more recent but why would someone put it in an old file other than to create a mystery. very cool

That woman doesnt look healthy at all, her hands are red as well as her feet and her legs. I wonder if she was in trouble when this photo was takenm if i was u i would of taken it to the police, maybee she was murdered.

also looks like theirs blood on the wall below her hands, and her out fit doesnt look fitting for the type of person you would expect to do somthing like that for fun.

theirs also lots off white things on the floor on that foto, like the white stuff thats on what ever surface the note book is on.

Her feet look bloody! Really creepy. I wish I could read those notes.

Psycopathia Sexualis - its a great book!

iwish you couldve photographed a few pages of this journal

I dont think her feet look bloody so much, I'd say more dirty than anything.

If you've ever trodden on hardwood floors barefoot for hours at a time, you feet do wind up red from all the pressure. You also need to consider the lighting source- if this is indeed taken here the place probably utilizes fluorescent lighting.

In my personal opinion, this is a photo someone took as foreplay. She's stripped down, posing forcefully, and the attire ( sports bra and patterned panties) looks to be mid/late 90s- not at all related to the book its inserted into.

As the saying goes, correlation does not equal causation.

this is one of the scariest photos i've seen. makes 'her' real...and so so so sad

Those are some wicked ugly granny panties.

Tucuxi (Chippy)

so creepy and yet so sad, such a strange pose too

This is by far the coolest website I have ever visited. This would be the greatest hobby in the world. Too bad I am still only in Highschool.

I have so many questions about this whole picture!!!

So much for HIPPA - how could all of this stuff have just been left behind?Thank you Motts for not showing the name of the patient, I think you have more respect for the patient than the people who left her file/notes there.

sarcasmforthemasses

I use to work there during 1950-1959.The hospital was there for
a reason.My family worked there for about 20 yrs.
Use to live on the grounds in an old farm house out in front
of the farm near the road 2A.. Cant believe the condition that
it has fallen into.

The Ladd School left ALL of it's records behind and the school has terrific vandalism - became a real news story early in the new milenium and the state had to send someone out to destroy the evidence - sigh

Wow ... Wanna take a seat at one of these lonely chairs and read the notebook ... Just for interesting why this girl has such a pose on this picture or what's "wrong" with her ...

Wow! Its amazing that they just left patient records laying around. So much for HIPPA!!!

Why does everyone seem to think the girl's duds are more recent than the dates in the book? They fit right into the seventies... even if it isn't a pic of the patient written about...

I agree the picture looks later than 72. Those patterned panties look more 80s, and jogging bras were all the rage in the early 80s.

Yeah, it looks like a photo to document abnormal posturing. I've taken them myself during physical therapy. (other people's physical therapy, not mine....) They're pretty routine and you end up taking quite a few to document changes.

The white stuff on the floor in the picture looks like patterned linoleum.

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