1 Comments Posted by catsr4sue

Great site! Here's some interesting facts. I basically "grew up" at this hospital. Lived in nearby peabody with most relative residing in danvers. My dad was in an out of there for alcohol treatment in the mid to late 60's. I was a baby and my mom would bring a little picnic and we would visit ( i don't recall too much as i was about 2). my dadi passed in 1972 and again I was there visiting my older brother who was confined there off an on for schizofrenia and manic depression. Now being older, around 7 - 11 yrs. old, i remember eery and disturbing images of that place, that still haunt me today. My mom would lock me in the car to run in my brother some cigarettes or something and the weird patients coming up to the vehicle banging on the window..........i could go on an on. I'm 40 now and this place will haunt me forever. I later met someone whose mom worked there full-time for years during the early to late 60's as a nurse and this girl too pretty much grew up there having to accompany her mother to work at times.