27 Comments Posted by Dennis

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When I worked there, we could never keep the restraints in stock because the staff would steal then for their home sex escapades. Sometimes the staff would return them. Just couldn't find that quality anywhere.

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When I worked there, we could never keep the restraints in stock because the staff would steal then for their home sex escapades. Sometimes the staff would return them. Just couldn't find that quality anywhere.

I worked there as a Mental Health Assistant for five years from 1984 to 1989. I worked on the locked PICU or Psychiatric ICU on the fourth floor and on a psychiatric transition unit called the Fenwood Inn on the third floor. The pink rooms were for solitary confinement. We called them the "Quiet Rooms." Some QR's were painted a light green. We would put patients in there after assaults or suicide attempts. Often we wrestled them using a technique termed "folding the patient." After folding the patient a nurse would administered a "chemical restraint." Typically the Chemical Restraints were Haldol, Ativan, Trilafon or some other psychotropic drug.
It was an intense place to work. it was a Harvard Teaching hospital and guys from Dorchester (like me) had the opportunity to date girls on their way to medical school from Harvard (just like in Good Will Hunting). Lots of romance. After the evening shifts we would go to a bar in Brigham Circle and drink and do coke and crash at some staff persons house. Sometimes we would get to practice our skills and "fold up" some at the bar starting trouble. Hey, it was the eighties. What a great time.

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Reminds me of the boys and girls club i used to go too (but destroyed)

I liked Sesame Street as a kid :)

woah :0

Whos Austin?

Aw....what was wrong with him/her? :(

Dang,i feel bad for the prisoners :(

Ouch

Yoooo!I wanna explore this building!To bad it got destroyed before I had a chance :(.

Great pictures. .

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