Maybe this was a part of it. "The medicine cabinet would be open -- they would have medicine cabinets open, wide open -- and somebody got themselves a bottle of Thorazines, liquid Thorazine, and drunk a whole bottle and got very sick and they put him in the hospital -- they was trying to pump the stuff out of him -- and he died the next day. Lord knows where the attendants was at. " http://www.disabilitym...681&&page;=5 the beginining of the paragraph starts like this "
Where I was living they would be hitting too -- them big strong boys. It wasn't the attendants that did it; it was the patients: Charles R., Eddie T., and Eddie S., and other people. They would hit them over the head with mop handles and brooms -- whatever they could get their hands on; they would hit them. I never got hit; I got out of that; I hid in the bedroom underneath all the beds down in the rows. They chasing everybody else around; they couldn't catch me. I was very scared. They hit everybody else but they couldn't get me.
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They would be going to the hospital with cut heads and sores on the backs and Dr. W. would come around: "What's all these patients being hit for?" And Dr. W. would write out prescriptions for nerve relaxers and Thorazines and stuff like that. The medicine cabinet would be open -- they would have medicine cabinets open, wide open -- and somebody got themselves a bottle of Thorazines, liquid Thorazine, and drunk a whole bottle and got very sick and they put him in the hospital -- they was trying to pump the stuff out of him -- and he died the next day. Lord knows where the attendants was at. " this is from LOST IN A DESSERT WORLD this was written by a former patient. just a thought.
i'm reading a book http://www.disabilitym...681&&page;=3 it was written by a previous patient and in it, it mentions how the lockers were used to lock up and keep away personal items such as christmas gifts, letters and anything else before the patients could see them and rarely did they get to open and see their things.
Okay i was reading this book... http://www.disabilitym...681&&page;=3 written by one of the previous patients and it mentions somewhere on the second page it mentions that during their may festival thing the would wear costumes and every year after the principle would come down and make them put the costumes in the box she had so she could take them to the attic. just thought that was interesting.
Okay was reading this book... http://www.disabilitym...681&&page;=3 Lost in a dessert world. it was written by one of the patients. I think this was the sweat box..... maybe i don't know i'll read farther and find out...