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I still love ya, Lynne, and buttons too!

This is an image of a childhood no one should have.

That room has a very foreboding and wicked feel to it.

Like everything else in this hospital this picture alone is a little disturbing.

What should have been years filled with climbing trees,laughter,waiting for Santa Claus,amuesment parks and all the joy and sunlight in the world were spent in this horrid place.

A playroom of insanity and pain.The innocence and corruption like some one else said with that hideous,multi eyed,thing staring down on them.Poor kids!

I don't know what to say about this.It makes you feel something.The saddness of them trying to give bright and cheerful images to children trapped in this nightmare world.If this place isn't haunted I would be very,very shocked.All the suffering and negative energy in those walls.

It's disturbing but it definitely has some emotion behind it.That picture does more to a persons mind than a thousand horror movies could.

I can almost imagine myself as one of these patients,staring out at the world that has forgotten me and knowing nothing of the outside.

Amazing how rusted water on a bed can conjure up all sorts of nightmare and horror movie images.
You certainly give us some great photos.

The foot of the rug looks soaked in blood

Something jarring and disturbing about this photo,not sure what but it's a great picture.

Incredible picture...What a creepy but amazing place!I must see it for myself and yes I noticed the little girls face at first glance.It is probably just an illusion but I have no doubt genuine paranormal activity goes on in a place like that and it may be more than just a simple illusion.

*That was a great study by Rosenhan. I was in my first year of college when that study came out (1973), so you can see how ancient I am. :-) Don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but these days due to the various laws and due to insurance and federal and state funding, it is very difficult to get someone in a mental health facility involuntarily and even if you WANT to be there, funding lapses pretty quickly, so what they described in this study is less likely to happen. All you had to due was blink and you might get an involuntary commitment and it was VERY difficult to get out. The current legal demonstration of "danger to self or others" is quite strict, so this can be positive or negative depending on whether you want/need services or want to avoid them. However, his point that we all tend to judge people based on what we hear about them before we meet them (whether correct or incorrect) still holds true and probably always will.

*As regards visual hallucinations, in schizophrenia if visual hallucinations occur they generally co-occur with auditory hallucinations - they rarely occur alone. There are 5 senses. When we say that visual hallucinations come in second after auditory hallucinations that doesn't necessarily mean that there are a large number of them, just that they are reported MORE often than gustatory, olfactory, or tactile hallucinations, the last three occurring almost exclusively as a result of organic causes (unless they are all occurring together in someone who has frankly decompensated). This is a good way to differentiate the organic syndromes such as Lewy body dementia, Charles Bonnet syndrome, vertebro-basilar artery syndrome, head injuries, epilepsy, electrolyte imbalance, DTs, medication side effects, etc., from schizophrenia. As well, it is helpful when people are malingering (pretending to be psychotic). If someone comes to you and says they see things but aren't also hearing things and haven't shown signs of overall deterioration, you are then able to rule out or decrease the chances that someone has certain disease processes, such as schizophrenia.

*My initial point was to tease Nauseous about a patient reporting that they saw Motts but the staff thinking the patient had made it up, because, as I said, if someone has not shown an overall gross deterioration, is not currently experiencing both auditory hallucinations and visual hallucinations, a well-trained (there's the rub) psychiatric technician would know right away that perhaps something needed to be checked out if they claimed to see someone in the area where Motts was.

*However, I did a poor job and the point obviously suffered and died in translation. :-(

http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/articles/schizophrenia.html

"Visual hallucinations are more characteristic of organic states if occurring alone, and olfactory or gustatory hallucinations in particular should stimulate a search for organic pathology, particularly temporal lobe epilepsy."

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/325/7365/644

"The main differential diagnosis of delirium is from a functional psychosis (such as schizophrenia and manic depression) and from dementia. Functional psychoses are not associated with obvious cognitive impairment, and visual hallucinations are more common in delirium."

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030301/1027.html

"While visual hallucinations can occur in patients with primary psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, they are much less common than auditory hallucinations. In primary psychiatric disorders, visual hallucinations would be associated with other, more characteristic signs and symptoms of the disorders."

8`-) Very bad . . . but funny. 8`-)