2 Comments Posted by 1234

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What's more depressing is knowing that medicine has not advanced enough to treat patients that were once there
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I don't think that at the time the room was so depressing. Most people were on medication--Antipsychotics, often relieving them of any type of negative thoughts...Also, if you look closely you can see that the wall colors were once blue--Associated with "calm" ..So it's more of a tranquil feeling. Don't feel depressed that these people were confined to such a small space, but think about the fact that there was actually a place for them to receive help (before 1954 /prefrontol lobotomies) when they did not receive it from friends or family they were once close to.