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It's truley beautiful

Makes me want to know what it looked like before

ah gives me the shivers all over

Totally creepy but seriously amazing

I agree, Prairie Lady. I wouldn't mind becoming an Oak Tree someday. It would be extra cool if that tree was between my wife or girlfriend and I and was feeding off the both of us. Then, we would truely be one. :)

The rooms I was put in were more like seclusion rooms...the walls were of a hard plasticy stuff, but softer than concrete. That plus a dose of adavan was usually enough to calm me down. Even at the time I was thankful that the hospital had such places, though, because I never really wanted to hurt anyone and even though I would have more than willingly hurt myself at the time, I would have regretted it later. I felt safer in one of these rooms than I did out in the dayroom with so many distractions to irritate me, like sandpaper on my soul...in there it was quiet and I could calm.

Were the dead transported there from the Mortuary or home and stored in the racks in their caskets until the funeral hour, or were they brought there and casketed in the caskets stored in the racks? If casketed there, wouldn't they be emabalmed and preped there? It would be unusual to embalm and prep a body and then transport it to the chapel to be casketed wouldn't it? I never knew such things existed. Nice shot. Thanks, Motts..

As a sufferer of mental illness, I actually also find it sad that these places were just shut down rather than being cleaned up and reformed. I've been inpatient in several of the small hospital wings that are now used and pretty much all they were able to do with people was patch them up so that they were not an immediate danger to themselves or others and then toss them back out. As for longer term care...it was up to family and friends to try to convince the patient to keep up with their appointments and medications...not always the easiest thing to do.

I often wished there was someplace people with serious mental illness could go for longer periods, either until they became completely stable or longer if that wasn't possible. Group homes are out there, but they are tough to get into and they are hit or miss as to the quality of care. There just isn't a safety net out there.

These places were far from perfect in many cases, but at least there was something. I can imagine that they might have been improved rather than closed and a great emphasis placed on rehabilitation rather than institutionalization and we would all be better off now...and have fewer homeless and prison inmates.

Thank goodness I finally got stable on my meds!

For those of you wondering what happened to the severely mentally ill after de-institutionalization, well, many have found their way into the prison system. The mentally ill inmate population quadrupled in the past 20 years in GA. I worked as mental health counselor in the prison system for 6 years (2002-2008) and saw many men (and women) who, fifty years ago, due to the severity of their mental illness, would have been hospitalized for the rest of their lives. Very sad really.

I would love to have this for a Myspace background. Beautiful. Thanks..

i dont agree with max have some respect thats a place for the ded you dont joke about a thing like that it was a childrens mourge have some respect

Ex employee

that, is a story I cannot thank you enough for

pfaahahaa

Iiii don't see any door

Come on Ed you could get a free candy bar out of all these people, you've got to keep the stories going!

dear benz boy 903 yes i heard of eastern state school and hspital in trevose pennsylvania in fact the 14 bus which was the B bus at the time and yes you guest it i was there in 1980 to 1981 sometimes we would go to philadelphia state hospital to take some people there and pick them up when we went on feild trips back then