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Marie
How did u know I was in danvers state???
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Marie
Yes it was. The program is still up and running in tewksbury ma. Its called centerpoint. It moved there when danvers closed. At that time the place was very helpful. The problem I had was trying to explain to them that I had lied to geabler and told them that I had done all the stuff that they said I did just to get out. They didn't believe that all the stuff that went on in gaebler went on, and thought "the move was to much for me" and I was back in denial. after three years of a lot of crap I was cleared and released. Centerpoint has changed a lot of procedures and remains a helpful therapeutic I.R.T.P. "Individual residential treatment program". It changed once all these places like gaebler closed down. Its to bad I couldn't work with the people there just because I stopped working with them once they didn't believe me about gaebler. They didn't want to let me out and got a court order to keep me in. But a outside therapist evaluated me and said I was perfectly normal. And some court evidable testing cleared me. They found out all the stuff did happen at gaebler and apologized. I still talk to them now and then. And some staff still work there 16 years later.
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Chief Custodian: "Okay, who spilled the PineSol!?"
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Nooo! Somebody disrespected the ceiling boob!
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Awesome!
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It bewilders me why so many of these places have so much stuff like this in them. I mean come on, my redneck neighbor would love to have one of these in his yard... (It could go next to the fridge, between the Dodge Aspen on cinder blocks and the rotten couch...
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Ms. BritBurgh - thanks, yes I hope to visit Pripyat soon - aside from the guided tour need to access the exclusion zone, it looks incredible.

Marie, thank you, I used to work near the Kings Park psych center, so upon stumbling onto the abandoned parts of the campus in 2003, I felt like I needed to know what was inside. Then I found other places out there like it, and other people who enjoy the same things as I, so I didn't have to go alone all the time :-)
Ephemera: Counting the Years
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Thanks - just click the star icon at the bottom of the post, then click the Facebook icon :-)
Ephemera: Welcoming Spring
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tht is prob y its not distroyed
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it shows why we dont have institutions like this now a day
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@Boiler 1220-I'm sorry that the environment at the Gaebler was not therapeutic. If you don't mind me asking, was it a more positive environment at Danvers State?
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this is a nice pic wish i could go see it
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Yeah, I so can't wait for the 'full' gallery to this hospital. They are all so interesting. You always show pictures that make us think about things Motts. Those pictures with the writing on the walls is very very interesting. Thanks for all of your time & hard work. I love your site. I always come back for more .......thanks much!!
Ephemera: Counting the Years
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How can i upload a link to this website on my Face Book? I want my friends to be able to check out all of your wonderful photography. Please let me know!
Ephemera: Welcoming Spring
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Marie
Not that I could tell you. The only therapists that I knew of were there to find any kind of problem they could label you with, or make up. And make sure it stuck with you for the rest of your time in the system. There were also some that met with you to see how all the meds they tried on you were affecting you. They were not good people in my eyes.