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negative nancy lynne. i spent a great deal of time avoiding drool streams

Lynne is such a negative nancy. medication is used to a very large extent to make patients easier to deal with

i have been by this many times. there is a real cool abandoned drive in on route 12 in danielson. i haven't been by there is awhile but the speakers were still up last time i saw it.

I was one time given a forehead seatbelt

these chairs appear very human, clinging to their one ray of sunshine in a world of blackness

Does this mean you turned a negative patient satisfaction survey?

institutions like bright colors because on the face of it drab colors look dull and depressing while bright look colorful and engaging. drab colors do in fact encourage calmness and lucidity

this is one of the few situations in which one can effectively anthropomorphize <(how do you spell that) a chair. you can just imagine a scared little animal in a world of blackness and monsters

Whenever it was dark in the ward and i heard metal creaking i would imagine a wheelchair rolling itself down the hall

The thing on the right looks like a pregnant woman

this was built before they factored in that long narrow spaces give the impression that you're trapped in a pit and, while cool looking, are not soothing

The name "Gravesend" is a pseudonym for this hospital.

Lynne forgets that while it sucks to work there, it sucks to live there worse, because you never get to leave. Theyve got this thing with red carpeting and paint. some guy told me it was so blood wouldnt stain but i think he was just being a dick

what a cartoonishly evil name. i wonder if they thought about it before they decided

Screw this "save the buildings" crap.
Screw this "psychology has evolved" crap.
Many of you don't know what it is to be locked away. I have been locked away many times. There are STILL bars on the windows, there is still a padded "quiet room."
To be fair , I have met staff that were kind and meant well; but this is outweighed by the number of people who work in these establishments as a way to have power over others. Manipulative people. Abusive people.

You think psychiatry has improved so much since the 1960's? Now that doctors have decided that Mental Illness has a biological basis, they prescribe medicines like candy. Medicines, that they have only the vaguest idea of what it does. I have wasted my life trying these medications, getting sick with side effects, being locked away, treated like a child, with no improvement . I have met many, many others with the same experiences.
Society treats the mentally ill like shit. They hate us because we are on social security and disability. We are not "useful" and economically viable.
Don't romanticize Danvers State. The patients that lived there were human beings. Don't defame their lives by alluding to ghosts and ghoullies.
When looking for an example of how "respected" mentally ill individuals were at Danvers state- look to their earlier burial process. The patients were buried in unmarked graves. Not to be remembered until the 1990s.
ps: In the past I worked as a mental health worker (i was, ironically, a psych. major). I have had practical experiences as well as personal experiences.