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This kind of depresses me because I'll bet there were like, 15 BINGO balls missing, but they just kept right on playing, and no one knew the difference.

Yeppers. Similar abstract colors, lines, themes.

Well, from the comments I have read, it looks as if the vote is 187 to 3 that we were all torturers and sadists. And we strapped everyone into anything that wasn't moving. :-)

Sometimes I think that everyone who works in institutional settings should take the day off and let those who are critical come in and work a shift, plus the mandatory overtime that direct care are so often compelled to work when they least expect it (like the day of their child's first birthday party or their only child's high school graduation). 'Course, I'm not sure how many of our clients would still be alive at the end of the day because this is extremely specialized and difficult work, and I am sure the population of the MI facilities would double overnight from the stress brought on by working in our facilities for that one shift.

Swear to God people (Ooooh! I'm getting religious again!) - work a shift, volunteer a shift, spend some time in a nursing home or other live-in setting - your perspective will change very quickly. Your compassion and admiration for the (majority of) staff will increase and your feelings about the people who live here will change from one-note simplistic pity into something more. A true client advocate spends as much time advocating for staff as they do advocating for the clients, because many people who live in institutional settings are there because they can not live without the assistance of someone else. Plus that extra set of eyeballs would help us deal with those few staff who ARE abusive.

Twug, thank you for thinking about staff. I lubs my staff almost as much as I love my clients.

Hah! One of my favorite movies, especially the "outtakes" at the end!

THRiLL KiLL - how interesting! Bet you are involved in tons of therapy! How is your little one coming along - do you have him in any early schooling programs yet?

That tops one of those wonky ghost stories any day. My sincere condolences on the loss of your beer.

Scariest thing? Probably having to take a crap after too much Taco Bell and being in the large auditorium, about a half-hour's walk through the buildings from home.
Needless to say, I made it, but it was frightful.
Oh, and one time I dropped a beer into a pile of ceiling-tile mush and it was rendered *undrinkable*.

LOL, this reminds me of that movie "The Shining" come play with us, forever and ever and ever, if that was how it goes or something close to it, because it looks like two little girls are standing and the end of the corridor.

Gorgeous, yes it does have a lonely feel to it.

Oh wow...lol

Really awsome... I would'nt dare to walk thorugh that hallway!

A toast to you again M.R. Motts we will at least have these great photographs to always look at and talk about when unfortunetly (but wishful thinking that it wont be so )Danvers State Hospital will no longer stand there for us to be mesmerized by its mystery and beauty along with its history and misfortune .Great work.You are the best!

I think its plain morbid..considering this place represented the hangmans noose to some of the helpless poeple that went there and died there. I dont find it amusing at all.

Hey Motts! Who changes the positions of the chairs now and then was wondering .The Ghosts, maybe?(giggle) nonetheless does look downright creepy .

Real nice... keep these kids locked in an asylum and make them a painting symbolizing Disneyland... a place where they'd never get to go.