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Interesting to say the least I worked in a Psych Hosp and it's still thriving to this day ... it has not falled to the Decay as may others have /

Entertainment. We have plays, shows, bands, dances, fairs - you name it. When times are rough for a person or you live apart from others, there is nothing to beat recreation and entertainment. :-)

Since HIPAA has come into effect we have had more training on the various aspects of HIPAA than any other concept that has ever been in the field, I swear to the heavens. :-( It is gruesomely boring and technical, but they threaten you with large fines, so we have to learn it.

As a clinical psychologist I always had to honor confidentiality, both while the person was "under my care" and even after they left, unless they signed a waiver of some sort. But even then you get into the habit of not discussing people who have been in your care such that they could ever be identified, and even when you have permission to discuss a specific case you always alter the details just enough to protect the person's identity.

And kty, you are right - I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than finding myself described in all my glory somewhere by name when my life wasn't working out well. That's why I am tickled and most appreciative that Motts doesn't divulge what he has found in these places. It is excruciatingly difficult to be in such a spot that you need to go (or be taken) somewhere for help, and then to think that people would be reading your personal records years later describing when you were at your darkest point in time - this would be the ultimate humiliation. To me that is much more "abusive" than many of the things that seem to bother people if they aren't familiar with this field.

I drove past the mental hospital lastnight and saw some of the remaining buildings of whats left of it and it made me sad. Me and all my siblings wanted to go explore the place but it said no trespassing. My aunt used to dance there when it was still open. To entertain the people. So I wanted to research on it.

I often wondered why they had auditoriums in old Psych Hosp.?

Well thank you Lynne.. I don't work in the medical field.

The number '5' has always been regarded as mystical and magical, yet essentially 'human'. We have five fingers/toes on each limb extremity. We commonly note five senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. We perceive five stages or initiations in our lives - eg. birth, adolescence, coitus, parenthood and death. (There are other numbers/ initiations/ stages/ attributions).

Expressing the saying "Every man and every woman is a star", we can juxtapose Man on a pentagram with head and four limbs at the points and the genitalia exactly central. This is Man in microcosm, symbolising our place in the Macrocosm or universe and the Hermetic/Tantric philosophy of associativity - "As above, so below".

There are five elements, four of matter (earth, air, fire and water) and THE quintessential - spirit. These may be arrayed around the pentagrams points. The word 'quintessential' derives from this fifth element - the spirit.

This picture remindes me of an Iris shot
for films.

State of bliss, Haha!

the one on the right

it leads to the morgue

^ hahaha lmao!!!!

its is haunted...very haunted

those curtains aint there no more...after me and my friends got there...theres no more remains...lol

i felt the sprits around me the whole time i was in this place...its just a rush of cold air and compression passing by as u walk through the pitch black with small light source guiding you through