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My mother works at the bryan building. Such a shame that this (everything but the clock tower will be knocked down) is going to fall!!! They coumd just fix up the buildings on the inside & use them!! (Make a little extra money around Halloween, no?)

That is an incredibly beautiful pic of an incredibly beautiful building...

Photo from above. Can't disclose where this Eagle river power station is but this place looks awesome even from space. http://img.photobucket...one/PowerStation.jpg

Ammm man, that ceiling's sensational...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that was Ripper era London... Just beautiful.

i can definitely see the need to post something like this, to assist committed patients in having some structure to their existence. I left school for a while after becoming very messily depressed and breaking down. After returning home I became quite a reclusive shut-in for quite some time, remaining in my room, mostly in the dark, a year of fitful sleep and not much movement. literally. i experienced significant muscular atrophy. it was easy to lose touch with it all, to forget what day, what month it is, and to even be disturbingly hazy on the year.

lol halo - "Legend has it people in this facility were murdered in the halls, their lifeless bodies furiously humped by by a man wearing a suit that covered his entire body. he spoke in a child's voice, shouting bizarre insults like 'noob'."

umm... IS this a video game reference? the picture itself refers in no way to the game halo, rather the aura around the figure resembles a halo in the literal sense of the word. Yet another picture in this set is entitled 'x-box,' whose flagship franchise is the halo series. my guess: its a literal reference that is very aware of the other pics title, making it a reference to both really.

wow. i realize i'm discovering this thread very late, but i feel compelled to commend and agree with Lynne. In another thread in the Pennhurst section (of the pic of the basement w/ the painting of the many-eyed thing) I used the example of Facilitated Communication to illustrate concrete evidence of the "witch trial" mentality, which I agree is just as harmful as taking advantage of the defenseless. It's also quite disturbing, as the witch hunters, in a perverse way, really seem to want those stories of abuse to be true, as if to fulfill some masochistically romantic fantasy of trial endurance that they have. Just know that there are rational people out there who aren't blind to the benevolence and hard work of mental health professionals.

we in the psych community use those to sink sea org vessels, though that's an old variant. the new ones never leave survivors, which sucks because we used to get to go out there in runabouts and shoot them ourselves.

that wheelchair has his own one-man show

,,,is what that looks like.

I think we should all remember that these places didnt look exactly like they do now during their heyday, by any means, and there is a tendency for caregivers and 3rd parties to imagine scenarios of abuse in situations such as these, and dare I say, perhaps exagerrate the ubiquity of such incidents. its this very same imaginative mindset that fuels interest in these very pictures themselves (thematically I mean.).
This tendency is actually proven through psychological experiment: in the facilitated communication fiasco involving the alphabet boards and the autistic patients, with the caregivers "assisting" their communication manually. In reality, the caregivers were subconsciously controlling the "conversation," much like the way it is actually you operating the Ouija board. Many caregivers reported detailed accounts of incest and abuse, supposedly confided to them by their autistic patients. Families were ripped apart by these accusations, the greater majority of which were proved false via forensic science and psych research. And all along It was merely a particularly interesting form of transference on the part of the caregivers. Facilitated Communication is now largely considered pseudoscience.
im not saying abuse didnt occur. not at all. but it is important to keep a sober mind regarding all this. the history of mental health wasn't entirely a bacchanal of sadism, and like civilization in general, it's gotten more and more humane over time.

besides, that shrink sucked, he never wanted to listen to what i had to say, the act of which is like a fucking stethoscope to a shrink), and he got his doctorate in fucking Cabo San Lucas for chrissakes (one of those places). so eff him.

ECT is still used in the US for major depression, rarely, and very humanely (anesthesia, etc.), as a last resort. and it works. i've observed it first hand. seriously. there's some short-term memory loss and the year in which the treatments are administered became hazy at best and blank at worst (much of it), along with sporadic memory loss of previous events, but if nothing else has worked, it beats the alternative. at my worst I've also been "threatened" with it, though i'd call it more of a "strong suggestion." i was younger than the person i know who had it done, and as beleagured as I was, I couldn't let go of the very memories that plagued me. I know that doesn't make much sense, pragmatically speaking, but that's kind of the point. but i stand by my decision. fact is, it is the patients decision, this isn't cuckoo's nest or requiem for a dream (whose source material was written in the 70s). wasnt always that way tho.

The first thing I thought of when I saw this was "a rabbit", though it could have been a bear or a cat...anything. A soap dispenser though? That was funny.