3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Ooooh! Spectacular!

Ironically, y'all, this pic disturbs me.

Well, it rather looks like "Beth" to me, but then, I'm a little on the non-romantic side - sterile and clinical and all that. :-)

Jo, I REALLY love you! 8`-)

Marvelous shades of blue.

It's interesting to me that the rooms all had windows facing into the courtyard. That is unusual and somewhat comforting to me. Due to the vast size of so many large facilities, many isolation rooms had no outside window at all or the outside windows didn't have much in the way of a view.

If you've ever worked the violent ward and had someone in a seclusion room urinate on you, throw their food back in your face, or spit or vomit through the slot in the door on you, you would appreciate the slots being located at the bottom of the door more. That probably sounds cold to some of you, but trust me - one of the few things that makes a number of staff predictably furious is having bodily fluids tossed on them, whether or not the person doing the throwing is in possession of their faculties. If anything "prompts" abuse from those staff who may be prone to do it, it is being spit on or having bodily fluids of any sort flung in their general direction. The positioning of these door slots probably saved many a person an abusive encounter, as folks were generally placed in isolation when they were the least in control of their faculties.

Spoken as a person who has had to wear their fair share of other peoples' bodily fluids. :-)

Funny - this puts me in mind of architecture you might find in Italy or somewhere in Europe. Odd for such a new building (in comparison to the age of the buildings in Europe).

Ooooh, this is great! I like the perspective given by the windows on the right, I love the colors of the mossy bricked wall on the left, the detritus on the floor makes the overall atmosphere quite somber, and the odd yellow light shining through the door at the very end of the shot lends an incredible feeling of distance. There is quite the feeling of tension or expectation in this shot. Very nice indeed.

Oh man, this is truly awesome. Hallways-R-Us.

I can actually "feel" the different textures in this shot. Very nice.

WALLPAPER!

This puts me in mind of several of your other psychiatric hospital galleries. I really love the feeling and mood of these.

Pirate dance! Pirate dance! Grab your derbies and let's party! This is the perfect tilted hallway for it!

Amazing. If I didn't know this was photography I would swear the door was drawn by hand. What an unusual shot.

Agree with everything above. You guys make it easy for me. ;-)