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Navi your point is extremely valid. Mental disorder is such an individual thing, I think the biggest mistake society makes is sticking the same label on everyone and trying to manage them all with the same process.

Remember, its society. There are no right or wrong answers, and your opinion matters just as much as the person next to you, irrelevant of their expertise. Look how wrong professionals have been in the past. We all have to do the best with the time given to us.

that is a LOT of tiles. I wonder if theres even one dang tile left on that ceiling?

did you stand that thing up, Motts? I don't think that thing could survive whatever the heck happened to it and still be standing upright...

wtf that really DOES look like amber...

Makes you wonder. Was the patient's allowed to watch movies?

Where I'm coming from is a completely non-professional place, merely observation and personal opinion (being of mental disease myself). So if Lynne corrects me on something, or if I don't word it properly, so be it.

Criminals in US prisons are afforded medication, yes, but I'm not convinced something that simple is "proper care." They're still being left at the mercy of other criminals/prisoners who are likely to harm them (a quick example that comes to mind is a recent forced tattooing - a man was forcibly tattooed with the name of his victim on his forehead, which I find to be sick on all levels), and in most cases, medication is the ONLY course of treatment. I know there is counseling available somewhere, in some way, but even that seems like a band-aid.

I can think of another example my Law teacher told me about last year - who knows if this situation has changed, I certainly would like to. A schizophrenic on death row refused to take his medication because he knew the law was that he wouldn't be executed unless he was of sane mind. But the prison was unsure if they were within their rights forcing him to be medicated only so they could kill him. And if he knew he needed to be medicated, was he really insane? That's messed up on so many levels.

None of which helps the fact that WSH housed a group of dangerous people who are now roaming the streets, because the government (and most of its citizens, probably) didn't care and closed the hospital.

How horrible for the patient's,just to know they were that close.

What a disgrace,those record's were private. They should have been given to the patient's families .If the patien't was deceased; then they should of been distroyed .Just what type of person would leave those medical files lying arround ,sure hope you do not work in a medical facility now.

This is not only illegal ,but for such a thing to happen ,to patient's records is unexcusable. Everyone has a right to there privacy and that includes mental patient's. I am appaled by the lack of record keeping.

Most ,mental patient's would not be able to spell ,or create such abtiouties ,This was a joke of some idiot , Who seams to think he is being quiet funny,not.

There doesn't seam to be much privacy hear.How , would one know what the other was suffering from?And if it was contagious.

You would think that proper use of color's .Would stimulate one's mind ,and give patient's a better disposition.

Was just sent the addy to your site by my son. Gorgeous photographs. We lived in the Norwich/Groton area for 21 years during the 70's & 80's. And, we remember Norwich State Hospital well.
Back in Minnesota now and working to restore all that's left of the Rochester State Hospital... it's cemetery. Over 2000 souls are buried there, only a very few of whom have markers of any kind left. Luckily, an accurate plat of the burials exists. Soon, many of them will be once again identified! We are also searching for the earlier cemetery which had 76 burials. For that, we also have a fine plat of the burials....but very little idea of where that actual cemetery sits. Sadly, all the wonderful buildings were deemed unrepairable and have been torn down. What a sad waste of what were truely incredible buildings....an entire *city* run by the inmates. Even a quarry! I hope NSH doesn't suffer the same fate. We're, as a nation, becoming too easily persuaded to just *get rid of the old stuff and replace it with new, modern stuff*. As a genealogist, I hate that attitude. We're losing our history!

You would think,that a proper buriel would be in order.

Verry interesting, One would wonder ,what the hole in the middle was for.