15 Comments Posted by billy

Don't go there. Almost was arrested twice

wow the enterance to the rooms where i was locked in for 3 tears

they kept me in a room like this be cause i fought against the system, they called it getting your mind right,they tried to break me even after 7 years in the room, with on e hour out a day for shower and room clean with one mattress and paper gowns

feeling alone while staring this shot with the gray sky.

it looks fairly new not really old

just a thought ...I know a guy who is deaf that I run into once in a great while. I cannot sign so we communicate with paper and pad . we each use a different piece of paper and just show them back and forth. the one sided conversations written seem very confusing if you were to read one and not know the circumstances around it. I have seen people read one an go "WTF?"

It is Pronounced " ip(as in trip)-sill-anti" I am a lifelong Michigander...many Indian names all over The state.

I agree with Aly and Becka. I lived in this hellhole in the late 40's as a kid. Electric Shock, Extreme
Cold Hydro baths were routinely used to control behavior; not for any kind of treatment I observed. I had been an inmate of the Lyman School in Worcestor and faked a suicide to get here because I thought the treatment would be better. After initial observation when they asked if I still wanted to die I said Yes and was committed. The second time I managed to escape I made it to California and never went back. I am now 74 and was looking for historical info so I could perhaps write a book but I have no chance to get my records now so that's over. I saw many acts of brutality and am sure there are many bodies on the grounds which were a result of murder by technicians (brutes who were hired for their strength, not their psychiatric knowledge). There were many nooks and crannied in the dark recesses of this place where they could take one for sexual abuse or murder if they wished. I worked in the Main Kitchen and was very familiar with the underground tunnels connecting various buildings. My one and only post just to add some real-life perspctive.

yeah,i was a patient there when i was11 yrs old.me and a friend escaped in the snow.there was a kid who used to bang his head on the wall all the time.we slept in one big dorm.they put me in seclusion for running away.i was there because they said i was a stubborn child.some kids got shock therapy. that was around 1954.billy

i was a patient there for a yr. for being a stubborn child. at age 11.i ran away a couple of times

I work at a school for blind, and physically handicapped children, and we use these with the kids there. They lay on their stomach, with the two close wheels under each armpit, and their legs by the spread wheels. They then can pull themselves across the floor by their hands. I have had the chance to play on one, and they SPEED along a good tiled floor. They are a great time!

that looks like the train entrance of silent hill

My family and i have lived in this part of ct for as long as i can remeber and i found out recently in my studies through my family and others i have over 4 relitives that were in ther for sevral different reasons its sounds cool but when i was there tonight i felt so heavy in my chest and felt like i was followed with eyes every were i turned i felt no control over my body scary a little but i was not threatend because they say in my family we stick together no matter what so to all my relitives in there R.I.P. i love you all and i hope i can contact you when i go back.

This is a mattress sanitizer... they get stacked inside, and then they are sanitized somehow... My dad has a book about Ellis Island, and there is a picture of one of these in it. The door that would go on the front would have a large wheel in the center to seal it closed.

Hey everyone, I've just become very enamored with this site... Lynne... I love your posts. I work at a school with many kids who are Multiply Disabled, and Severely involved... In English, they can't speak at all, and it is very hard to move thier Body's. The facilities we use for bathing the children are very very private, but I can honestly say that if the building were left untouched for 10 years and then someone stumbled upon the bathroom, it may appear that there was much less privacy given to the students. With someone who is severly Disabled, or Mentally Ill, the facilities in which you bathe them can't be the standard stall door with a stall that is 3 ft by 4 ft. The privacy is more the responsibility of the person doing the bathing to make sure that no one intrudes. As for the windows opening into the hall, that I have no defense for.