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This is BEAUTIFUL. o.o

anyone else notice that when you look at the biggest wallpaper version of this, and look at it at full size, to the bottom left it looks like there are 2 people sitting near the bottom

back in 95/96 my girlfriend and i broke into this place. this room is where i found a brain in a jar. it was cut into cubes. i still remember the name on the jar. hilda kirkwood. emily took the brain home and brought it to school the next day. some one told on her and the principle suspended her and the police were notified. for the next week it was all over radio stations like waaf and wbcn. i still have the newspaper clippings from the next day. the headlines read "stolen brain sparks probe". ive heard many people claim it was them who took it but it was me and emily. no one else would have known the name on the jar. it was before anything had been taken out of the hospital and it was because of us it was semi cleaned the first time. it was the scariest place i have ever been in my life. i only wish i had pictures. but these ones most accurately depict what we saw.

I can just imagine some creepy shadow figure gliding down that hall.

bet u the arrow sill works

If I had the money I would turn this place into a house.Incredible

great photo! glad to see I am not the only one that has a camera strap that gets in the way
;-)

gee, it looks so shiny and new

As a side note, I had a great aunt who often checked herself into Manteno. Although she did not like the electroshock treatments she received, she was quite happy there and felt very safe.

I was there last weekend. The room has now been painted over, and the tubs are gone. All that remains is a bit of the writing on the bases where the tubs were.

Uh,"warrior" comments like that are what get people like you into trouble.. Talking $#!% to people you know nothing more about then what you may read online. you may want to watch what you say and to who you say it.. but if you insist on letting your mouth run try using a name people will know how to find instead of talking behind the protection of a keyboard..

oh and i have worked in many diffirent areas of mental health from Max Security, Med Security, IPCU, to acute admissions and rehab and i can GUARANTEE they do not use this approach anymore within the western world. Along with mechanical restraints and strait jackets. All nurses are trainned to deal with patients in a perfectly ethical and dignifying manner. Its ashame that the knowledge of mental health was so small in those days, compared to what we know now and the approaches we can use to benefit a larger recovery rate for service users.

ive heard stories about ice baths, i was under the impression that they were used in the same way as ECT (Electro-Convulsive Therapy), where with ECT you put an electrode to each temple to induce a fit, so basically it is just like rebooting a computer, and oddly enough i have met PATIENTS who swear by this therapy so it must work for some people, on the otherhand i hava whitnessed patients having dramatic deterioration to there mental health as well but its a last resort with alot of patients once all meds have been tried.

But apparantly ice baths had the same effect but they didnt have the same anisthetics and muscle relaxants when they were in use, so it was branded as un-ethical(obviously). They were not kept in the bathtubs for a long period of time, maybe just submerged for a few seconds so it shocks the system just like ECT.

better behave yourself

who was standing in there?