2 Comments Posted by FormerPatient

wrote:
LaReins,
You are very welcome, i juts wanted the younger people to understand what happened in this place. It does have beautiful architecture, but the secrets and horrors that have happened in this place are nightmarish.
I am glad i was able to share my knowledge of the Danvers past with you! I am 76 years old now, and all of it is behind me. Thank You once again.
Margaret Kinsey
wrote:
Mr. Motts, my name is margaret, and i weas a patient at danvers for twenty years. 1965 - 1985. i was told about this site from my grandson. i just wanted to say that every-one leaving comments says how awful it is that this building should be kept up and remain for ever, but if you knew the things that happened to patients, inculding myself, you wouldhate yourself for ever wishing it. i wanted to tell you a story that happened in this very hall. in 1976 we had a new patient admitted, her name was chloe, and she was very nice. i made friends with her and she had an illness similar to parkinsons. the doctors had decided to give her shock therapy treatment and she wasn't going to have it. one day she was taken into the administration building, and on her way back they told her they were taking her to recieve shock therapy treatment. she put up a struggle, and they beat her, the orderly removed his shoe and beat her on top of the head and in her face. they then took her and gave her shock treatment, and she died. i hate that place, and i never want to see it again. i am currently living in new-york city, and i never will go back there again. i just wanted to tell you my, rather, chloe's story.
thank you,
margaret kinsey