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Were lobotomies done more for schizophrenic or Manic Depressive patients?( I seem to recall for schizophrenics more, but it's been 10 years since my psych classes)?

Lynne and/or Big Ed, your input would be very helpful.

I believe this picture is of the beer garden gazebo. It was located where kiddie land was years before. It was right next to where the corkscrew rollercoaster was located. It seems as this picture could have been taken from the loading area of the corkscrew.

groups of paitent beds would be in this room. each one would have a light facing them. where uv rays would shine on them. kinda like a huge tanning bed used mostly for Rickets (a vitiamin D difficency) before they didnt know that UV rays caused skin cancer. The Bader Solarium

The Bader Solarium, 1930s
Sunlight was considered very important in the treatment of many diseases, especially rickets (a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin D or calcium). Here, several children receive carbon arc and ultraviolet light treatments. The risk of prolonged ultraviolet light exposure as a cause of skin cancer was not appreciated in that era

Damn I remember that "A" well from the movie "Session 9"

I work as a part time teacher's aide in a private learning center and I do this also; raiding dollar stores to give our kids a bit of holidays( due to the fact that many of the kids are on a specialized diet due to Autisim and ADHD we are not allowed to give out food/candy)
(many of the kids I work with are ADHD, autistic, childhood bipolar and other DDs)

That looks like a slightly less fancy version of the caf @ my old community college!!

Holly crap; that's a scene right out of the Silent Hill game

i live right by that hotel and news flash its still standing they never tore it down!!!!!

Wow i had to look at my screen differently so see the ''Boo'' there.. creepy

I have the exact same styled bathtub as that in my house.... but grey, not that crazy mint.

I'm not going to have nightmares as a kid...

I'm 18 and I'm going to have nightmares tonight...

*shiver*

I don't think watching this ghost hunter show is helping me, but I'm getting such chills up and down my spine. Beautiful picture.

I ADORE the way the light reflects off of the ceiling. Oh, and I'm really enjoying the people telling their stories of the place in the comments. It really clarifies the place for me. It's horrifying what they did to you. I've been in a phsyciatric ward once when I was 16 (18 now) for about 2 weeks, and I didn't have a bad experience at all. It's abominable, the way that they treated you. (If your curious, my mother had called 911 after a raging suicidal episode. I'm fine now :] )

You are looking at a picture of my old room. I drew the picture of "Max" from "Wild Things" on the wall. I was officially the last resident of the Sterling Hotel - at least legally. I lived there for several months after it closed down. It was quite an adventure, I had a 100 room apartment.