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almost like someone set this down for a moment & forgot it.......

wonder why the knife is there & why/how it is bent like that? the syringe isn't really that big, the needle either. it's a 3cc or 5cc & those usually have anywhere from a 21-25g needle.
unless you hook up your own. (i work in a dr's office) i would think junkies would use small needles to lessen track marks & make it easier to fnd a vein.
-mink-

Striking and sobering. And an austere composition and contrast.

Before it was called PTSD,the term shell shocked may have been used.I dont think everyone gets violent.Some retreat inside of themselves.PTSD is said to cause Multiple Personalities.There was a book written by a woman who was diagnosed with had M/P.Her name was Trudy,the books title is When Rabitts Howl.

The paint looks quite fresh......

Bright side being that next time you're seeing it pass by you won't remember where it leads...
Well that's not a very bright bright side.

I once got numb fingers after accidently brushing against an uncapped light switch wire... I also lost my tracks for a moment there.
I don't to want to even imagine that feeling multiplied...

Very foreboding..... I'm reminded of a shot from Pink Floyd's The Wall.

any lawyer can see there's no case for trespass there. as long as you didn't take anything or cause damage.....
-mink-

definitely redrum!!
red filters are used to allow one to see better in a darkened area. maybe that's why these are there.
mink

Tell me about it William. I've heard that back in the 1800s most mental hospitals were full of soldiers who had PTSD although back then no one knew what it was yet. I would say PTSD is one of the most frightening illnesses because the person can behave normally in most settings and then something triggers the bad memories and they lose control. Most of the time peole can just get lost in memories but in certain PTSD cases (as my cousin-in-law's example above proves) they can actually become violent due to fear. It takes a very special kind of person to help people with these problems.

If you go back,not that long ago,many of these places had 2 and 3 times the capacity they were designed for.It is said that Danvers State Hospital at one time had 2,500 patients.Can you imagine what that could have been like?There was not alot of effective medications.When a person goes high,the adrenilan takes over and you could have someone with super human strength.It could take 4 or 5 men to restrain a patient.At that point all that could be done was give the patient medication and put them in restraints.Hopefully they would calm down.Thats a pretty tough job.

This reminds me of some of the fantasy sets from the movie Labrynth. Beautiful. Hard to believe it's purpose was related to war.

I was in Dresden (Germany) in the early 80's, and a large part of the city center was still gutted from the firestorm bombing from the Second World War. Many of the buildings resembled this, exactly.

Another very impressive shot. One gets the impression that the walls are closing in, and that there is no escape.

That's what I was thinking... I bet it was easy to get infestations in places of this size and maybe they needed to store poisons for a rather regular use.
Would a hospital use the term "poisons" for medicine?