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I think this place must've been pretty old to have had a fireplace as a means to heat a patient area.

Hey, is that a creepy boarded up door down there? Or is it just a creepy wooden door? Whatever it is, it sure is creepy! This whole gallery of this old hospital is creepy! How old was this place, Motts?

Holy schneikies, Motts! That's really creepy with your shadow slinking down the hallway like that!

I tried to kill myself a while ago - I think probably about ten years ago now - and went from the emergency room (where they patched me up) to one of the new "psych wards" right in the hospital. I was still pretty agitated when I was in the emergency room (even though they shot me full of something pretty happy), and they kept asking me if I still wanted to hurt myself, and I kept telling them not to give me the chance because I would. They told me that they wanted to put me upstairs in the psych ward, and that they wanted to put me in seclusion, but I was so out of it that they couldn't get me to give them permission, so they had to wait for my mother to get there (an hour drive) to sign papers and take custody of me (I was in my early twenties at the time) so that they could get her permission to put me in seclusion. It was quite an ordeal, and it wasn't easy for them to put me in there, even as messed up as I was. They put me in there a couple more times during my stay in that psych ward, and each time they asked me if I would go, and if I couldn't or wouldn't answer, they had to get ahold of my mom again so they could get permission from her to put me back in the klink again. They were very careful about how they went about it, and though I'm sure that at different times and different places procedures have differed (thus the difference =P), I think these days things are all pretty much on the up and up. My younger sister is a child psychologist, and for about the last five years or so she worked in a hospital for children with severe mental and behavioral disorders; one of her biggest complaints has always been all the red tape they have to cut through to get kids to stop smacking them around.

What a awsome picture!

I don't think I've ever seen a 3 door or 3 pannel elevator before. Thats pretty neat.

As I read, I hear not only the voices of wanting to find some reasoning behind the 'why', but I also hear the voices of the ones who have been there. I have been there, I have seen those walls, (not there exactly) but the colours were of the time, for colour therapy is a new ideology, and was not practiced then for paitent therapy. Even now in a facility that I have worked at, the walls are all blue, and bare. It is really quite sad to think why we use these rooms, for utimatly who does it benifit? NOT the patients.

Nice place, id love to work there

thats like a real theater in nyc or something

Thats such a great pool.

Wow i wonder how many rooms there are and thats a huge front desk

When i looked at this picture i thought hm great skatebored ramp than you said kids must skatebored there and i couldent agree more.

Homeless person's dream

I wish i lived when this place was around, thats so cool.

i actualy like it. cute